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Claude Levi- Strauss

 

Structuralism

Durkheim (played a critical influence)

Godelier

 

Structuralism concerned with the meaning of different social practices. Meaning is something to be uncovered, it is not transparent and self-evident.

Levi-Strauss’s anthropology extends the linguistic systems of Saussure to other domains of social enquiry – to social practices of exchange, kinship, food and myths.

 

We should look at Levi-Strauss’s critique of Sartre as played out in the Savage Mind.

 

 

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Quoted piece on Levi-Strauss’s criticism of functionalism

 

 

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