Analysis of claude levi-strauss's : structural anthropology

By:

Wheater, Kitty

Publication details: London Routledge 2017Description: 83pISBN:

9781912127146

Subject(s):

Anthropology -- Structural anthropology -- France

DDC classification:

301 WHE-A

Summary: Linguistic structuralism studies the meaning of language-based not just on definitions, but also on the relationships of words and sounds to each other. Lévi-Strauss’s insight was to see that this concept of structuralism in linguistics could be applied to anthropology as well. He saw that while some cultures are very different from others, they all seem to have certain internal structural relationships in common. By tracing these structures across cultures, he tried to answer nothing less than the eternal question: “What is Man?

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Linguistic structuralism studies the meaning of language-based not just on definitions, but also on the relationships of words and sounds to each other. Lévi-Strauss’s insight was to see that this concept of structuralism in linguistics could be applied to anthropology as well. He saw that while some cultures are very different from others, they all seem to have certain internal structural relationships in common. By tracing these structures across cultures, he tried to answer nothing less than the eternal question: “What is Man?

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