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structural anthropology

American  

noun

  1. a school of anthropology founded by Claude Lévi-Strauss and based loosely on the principles of structural linguistics.


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At university, she decided to study structural anthropology, examining the ways humans use myth and social structures to resolve the fundamental oppositions of existence: life and death, light and darkness.

From New York Times Nov. 16, 2021

They’ll assign readings in philosophy, poetry, structural anthropology, nonsense or an early American novel about a murderous ventriloquist.

From New York Times Feb. 17, 2015

Now comes MF, the biggest send-up of them all, on Claude Levi-Strauss's intellectually fashionable structural anthropology.

From Time Magazine Archive

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