Structural AnthropologyBasic Books, 5 באוג׳ 2008 - 352 עמודים The “structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individuals—kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art. |
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Language and the Analysis of Social Laws | 55 |
Linguistics and Anthropology | 67 |
Postscript to Chapters III and IV | 81 |
The Concept of Archaism in Anthropology | 101 |
Social Structures of Central and Eastern Brazil | 120 |
Do Dual Organizations Exist? | 132 |
The Effectiveness of Symbols | 186 |
Structure and Dialectics | 232 |
Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America | 245 |
The Serpent with Fish inside His Body | 269 |
Social Structure | 277 |
Postscript to Chapter XV | 324 |
The Place of Anthropology in the Social Sciences | 346 |
Acknowledgments | 382 |
Index | 399 |
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עמוד 143 - But at the same time, it becomes possible to distinguish a third form of dualism. Let 1, 2, 3, and 4 represent the clans of one moiety and 5, 6, 7, and 8 the clans of the other moiety, taken in sequence according to their spatial distribution around the village circle. The rule of exogamy is suspended for clans 1 and 2 on the one hand, and 3 and 4 on the other. We must therefore distinguish eight territorial relationships, such that four imply marriage and four exclude it, and this new dualist formulation...
עמוד 208 - Keeping this in mind, we may notice that myth uses a third referent which combines the properties of the first two. On the one hand, a myth always refers to events alleged to have taken place long ago. But what gives the myth an operational value is that the specific pattern described is timeless; it explains the present and the past as well as the future. This can be made clear through a comparison between myth and what appears to have largely replaced it in modern societies, namely, politics. When...
עמוד 276 - Let us begin then by laying facts aside, as they do not affect the question. The investigations we may enter into, in treating this subject, must not be considered as historical truths, but only as mere conditional and hypothetical reasonings, rather calculated to explain the nature of things, than to ascertain their actual origin; just like the hypotheses which our physicists daily form respecting the formation of the world.
עמוד 295 - In any society communication operates on three different levels; communication of women, communication of goods and services, communication of messages. Therefore, kinship studies, economics and linguistics approach the same kinds of problems on different strategic levels and really pertain to the same field.
עמוד 335 - The simplicity of the organisation for production in these self-sufficing communities that constantly reproduce themselves in the same form, and when accidentally destroyed, spring up again on the same spot and with the same name — this simplicity supplies the key to the secret of the unchangeableness of Asiatic societies...
עמוד 32 - Structural linguistics will certainly play the same renovating role with respect to the social sciences that nuclear physics, for example, has played for the physical sciences.
עמוד 379 - We should be appalled at the state of things at home, if, as in England, our governments and parliaments appointed periodically commissions of inquiry into economic conditions; if these commissions were armed with the same plenary powers to get at the truth; if it was possible to find for this purpose men as competent, as free from partisanship and respect of persons as are the English...
עמוד 49 - elementary family," consisting of a man and his wife and their child or children. . . . The existence of the elementary family creates three special kinds of social relationship, that between parent and child, that between children of the same parents (siblings), and that between husband and wife as parents of the same child or children. . . . The three relationships that exist within the elementary family constitute what I call the first order. Relationships of the second order are those which depend...
עמוד 18 - It would seem that the essential difference between linguistic phenomena and other ethnological phenomena is, that the linguistic classifications never rise into consciousness, while in other ethnological phenomena, although the same unconscious origin prevails, these often rise into consciousness, and thus give rise to secondary reasoning and to re-interpretations.