Wheater, Kitty
Analysis of claude levi-strauss's : structural anthropology - London Routledge 2017 - 83p.
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?
9781912127146
Anthropology --France--Structural anthropology
301 / WHE-A
Analysis of claude levi-strauss's : structural anthropology - London Routledge 2017 - 83p.
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?
9781912127146
Anthropology --France--Structural anthropology
301 / WHE-A