structural anthropology
Americannoun
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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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