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	Structuralism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Structuralism is an approach in academic disciplines that explores the relationships between fundamental elements of some kind, upon which some higher mental, linguistic, social, cultural etc. "structures" are built, through which then meaning is produced within a particular person, system, or culture.
		Structuralism appeared in academic psychology for the first time in the 19th century and then reappeared in the second half of the 20th century, when it grew to become one of the most popular approaches in the academic fields that are concerned with analyzing language, culture, and society.
		In literary theory structuralism is an approach to analyzing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Structuralism (2221 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Anthropology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Anthropology grew increasingly distinct from natural history and by the end of the nineteenth century the discipline began to crystallize into its modern form - by 1935, for example, it was possible for T.K. Penniman to write a history of the discipline entitled A Hundred Years of Anthropology.
		Anthropology thus transcends the divisions between the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities to explore the biological, linguistic, material, and symbolic dimensions of humankind in all forms.
		Anthropology in the U.S. Anthropology in the United States was pioneered by staff of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, such as John Wesley Powell and Frank Hamilton Cushing.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Anthropology (3252 words)

	Structural anthropology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Structural anthropology is based on Claude Levi-Strauss's idea that people think about the world in terms of binary opposites—such as high and low, inside and outside, person and animal, life and death—and that every culture can be understood in terms of these opposites.
		Elementary structures are based on positive marriage rules that specify whom a person must marry, while complex systems specify negative marriage rules (whom one must not marry), thus leaving a certain amount of room for choice based on preference.
		From a structural perspective matrilateral cross-cousin marriage is superior to its patrilateral counterpart; the latter has less potential to produce social cohesion since its exchange cycles are shorter (the direction of wife exchange is reversed in each successive generation).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Structural_Anthropology (2923 words)

	Structural Anthropology Chapter II - Claude Lévi-Strauss (1958)
		As a matter of fact, the main interest of social structure studies seems to be that they give the anthropologist hope that, thanks to the formalisation of his problems, he may borrow methods and types of solutions from disciplines which have gone far ahead of his own in that direction.
		Therefore, structural analysis is confronted with a strange paradox well known to the linguist, that is: the more obvious structural organisation is, the more difficult it becomes to reach it because of the inaccurate conscious models lying across the path which leads to it.
		Structural studies are, in the social sciences, the indirect outcome of modern developments in mathematics which have given increasing importance to the qualitative point of view in contradistinction to the quantitative point of view of traditional mathematics.
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	anthropology
		Structural analysis, however, as it was first set up, aimed to do this while remaining unaffected by social and/or cultural systems themselves.
		Right up until the emergence of structural anthropology, the structures of kinship were regarded as being determined by much the same simple unit that Aristotle had suggested, that is, the family.
		The structural analysis of myth is, therefore, one example of the tendency among scientistic discourses to provide explanations of religion.
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	Structuralism
		The most difficult aspect of structuralism is that these structures are not based on concrete or physical phenomena as they are in biological or other sciences but based on cultural realities such kinship organization or tales.
		Structuralism, however, is not a unified school or methodology; Lévi-Strauss does not have a monopoly on structural studies in anthropology or other disciplines.
		Structuralism is an intellectual movement which bases it analysis on the reduction of materials into models referred to as structures.
	www.panam.edu /faculty/mglazer/Theory/structuralism.htm (1329 words)

	Structural Anthropology home Mortgage and repair how to book.
		Levi-Strauss refers fairly often to structural linguistics (see Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand De Saussure) to give form to his concepts; for sociologists, maybe, reference to what has come to be known as the "cybernetic model" might be more communicative.
		What is really astonishing is that despite the profound nature of his infusing Anthropology with the findings of Structural Linguistics and making a fetish of inexactness and possibility, Levi-Strauss may have stumbled into a method that has proven useful in its critique and the doors with which it has opened.
		Structural Anthropology has become canon reading and is a classic for all times.
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	Claude Levi-Strauss - Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At the same time, and precisely because the interest of professional anthropologists has withdrawn from primitive religion, all kinds of amateurs who claim to belong to other disciplines have seized this opportunity to move in, thereby turning into their private playground what we had left as a wasteland.
		Of all the chapters of religious anthropology probably none has tarried to the same extent as studies in the field of mythology.
		Although this is still a provisional formulation of the structure of mythical thought, it is sufficient at this stage.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/courses/myth.html (1968 words)

	ANTHROPOLOGY AND WOMANIST THEORY
		Anthropology is an ambitious science which, from its earliest origins, has sought to answer questions about the infinite complexities of the human experience.
		The formalization of anthropology as a scientific discipline in the late nineteenth century meant that the observations, hypotheses, and theories of "the study of man" were generated from and based upon that which we now call empirical data.
		Second, while critiquing anthropology's colonialist history, womanist anthropologists move beyond the critique and seek to transform anthropology by introducing new subject matter, implementing alternative methodologies, and refusing to be relegated to a peripheral space in the discipline.
	www.uga.edu /~womanist/rodriguez2.1.htm (7310 words)

	structural- WordWeb dictionary definition
		"the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters; not ornamental elements"; "structural damage"
		Concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
		"structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface"
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	ANTHROPOLOGY
		Introduction to the subfields of archaeology, biocultural anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology through the examination of selected problems in human physical, cultural, and social evolution.
		Core course sequence for the beginning graduate student in sociocultural anthropology in which the development of theory is analyzed and emphasis is placed on the relation between theory and a growing body of ethnographic data.
		Anthropology of psychosomatics and psychiatry, including cultural analysis of selected biomedical, indigenous folk medical, and popular common-sense conceptualizations of illness.
	www.washington.edu /students/crscat/anthro.html (6408 words)

	Anthropology Comps Theory Questions
		The anthropology of Franz Boas and his followers was a radical departure from that of his predecessors, scholars such as Lewis Henry Morgan.
		In Structural Anthropology, translated by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, pp.
		Discuss what is meant by "postmodern anthropology," which anthropologists the label includes, and which it excludes.
	departments.oxy.edu /anthropology/comps03/theory.html (540 words)

	Anthropology
		As the "science of man" anthropology is concerned with humankind in the dimensions of time and space, on every part of the globe and from the genesis of man into the future.
		Material of use to the anthropologist is scattered literally from one end of the system to the other, and the subject headings for anthropology frequently do not appear to be organized into a pattern designed to include all pertinent material in a logical system.
		Given the wide range of interest of anthropology, periodicals from nearly every discipline may be useful to anthropologists.
	www.potsdam.edu /library/Guides/Anthropology.html (1999 words)

	Anthropology Subject Research Guide
		Topics of the periodicals are varied, covering many different disciplines including anthropology.
		Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology for a list of books the library owns from that series.
		Websites that can help get you started researching anthropology, archaeology and their related topics are provided below.
	www.stchas.edu /library/Research_Guides/Anthropology.shtml (498 words)

	Claude Levi-Strauss
		The book begins with a clear explication of the concept of structure, both demonstrating the relevance and defining the limits of the structural approach to the social sciences.
		In light of Lévi-Strauss's work, he looks at ideas about the universality of the human mind and logical categories, the representation of time in oral cultures and their relation to history, and the responsibility of Western societies to now-vanishing oral cultures.
		As debates surrounding structuralism subside, and as anthropology continues to transform itself, this book at last affords a broad and balanced account of the remarkable accomplishments of one of the great intellectual innovators of the twentieth century.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/H/henaff_claude.html (570 words)

	Claude Levi-Strauss
		Structuralism is concerned with the meaning of different social practices.
		Values are NOT (contrary to Durkheim) social facts in themselves, but rather they translate the impact on the consciousness of the individual of intellectual constraints resulting from the system of intellectual categories.' (Anthropology and Myth, p.
		The structuralism of Levi Strauss and Althusser - Miriam Glucksman in Rex, J- Approaches to sociology, Routledge, London 1974
	www.generation-online.org /p/plevistrauss.htm (335 words)

	Ideational-Material Project Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In contrast, ideational structures and processes are not (as yet) directly observable,
		structure (or rule) that is incompletely specified except when embedded in a
		structure is conceptualised and modelled and second the syntactic form of formal
	real.anthropology.ac.uk /Ideational_1.html (3732 words)

	religious anthropology - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Its approach is objective and rigorous...power, and the social bases of the religious practitioners effectiveness or failure...progress, and other perennial concerns of anthropology and shows their differential validity...
		Anthropology is a discipline...understanding of religious experience, it...holy fast: the religious significance of...Introduction: the anthropology of Christianity...
		DESCENT in anthropology, method of classifying individuals in terms of their various kinship...the use and transfer of property, the settlement of disputes, religious activities such as ancestor worship, and certain political relationships...
	www.questia.com /search/religious-anthropology (1559 words)

	Amazon.com: Claude Levi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology: Books: Marcel Henaff,Mary Baker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Originally published in French in l991, this book by Henaff (philosophy and anthropology, Univ. of California, San Diego) is a comprehensive survey and authoritative analysis of Levi-Strauss's researches in and contributions to anthropology in light of his methodology of structuralism, offering an introduction and new chronology that are particularly informative.
		The concept of systematic reciprocity is held to be the essential aspect of cultural relationships, especially in models of "primitive" societies.
		Unfortunately, he did not place his structuralism within the broader perspective of evolutionism, thereby inadvertently paving the way for irrational postmodernism.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0816627614?v=glance (586 words)

	Foodie's Corner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Given my interests in this subject (I did my Masters degree in the anthropology of food), I designed this section of the community to provide some preliminary information on what this discipline is about, in the hopes that the interest of individuals will be piqued.
		As a precautionary note, my theoretical orientation is premised on Social-Cultural anthropology, meaning that what I will present is heavily oriented towards exploring the social and cultural implications, role of and contribution of food within society, rather than, for example, digging up fossilized food remains in Egypt and dating them.
		The symbolic paradigm, which developed in the mid-1970s, is one of the most influential academic paradigms in food anthropology to date.
	groups.msn.com /FoodiesCorner/foodanthro.msnw (395 words)

	Culler on structural anthropology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The investigation of myth is part of a long-term project which uses ethnographic material to study the fundamental operations of the human mind.
		At the conscious and especially the unconscious level, Lévi-Strauss argues, the mind is a structuring mechanism which imposes form on whatever materials it finds to hand.
		In the case of myths, however, the situation is quite different: considerable effort is required to reconstruct the cultural context that provides clues to the nature of possible codes, and we start without a firm sense of meaning which would enable us to evaluate the description of myths.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/aneal/cullerlev.htm (549 words)

	Amazon.ca: Structural Anthropology: Books: Claude Levi-Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		"Lvi-Strauss is not only one of the extremely few scholars of sufficient distinction to be able to say, without presumption, what social anthropology is about; but he has also actually demonstrated...that he is pre-eminently worth listening to.
		Structural Anthropology is a translation of Claude Levi-Strauss's well-known collection of essays, Anthropologie Structurale.
		Written by one of the most pre-eminent Anthropologists of our time it will most undoubtly stand the test of time for many decades to come.
	www.amazon.ca /Structural-Anthropology-Claude-Levi-Strauss/dp/046509516X (1077 words)

	anthropology - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Anthropology, anthropology : The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy [home, info]
		Phrases that include anthropology: cultural anthropology, applied anthropology, structural anthropology, department of anthropology, socio cultural anthropology, more...
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	Welcome to the Annie Merner Pfeiffer Library -- Disciplines -- Anthropology -- Reference Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		These areas of the Dewey Decimal Classification are among those often used for cataloging anthropology materials.
		Try using them in the catalog or go to these sections of the shelves to browse, both in the circulating collection AND in the Reference Room.
		Following is a parital list of Subject Headings used in Anthropology.
	www.wvwc.edu /lib/anthro-books.htm (186 words)

	Structural anthropology books, find the lowest prices
		Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities : Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom
		The Spectrum of Ritual : A Biogenetic Structural Analysis
		Structural Anthropology in The Netherlands : A Reader
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	1-13-06 What is anthropology
		o Our definition (from the syllabus): Anthropology is a comparative, holistic discipline that seeks to understand humans in the broadest sense by studying their geographical and chronological diversity.
		Some of the contrasting vantage points we bring together within anthropology: science and the humanities; culture and environment; present and past; Western and non-Western; small-scale study and large-scale comparison.
		o How is business anthropology, as described here, similar to and different from the kind of fieldwork Margaret Mead described?
	www.unc.edu /courses/2006spring/anth/010/001/1-13-06notes.html (338 words)

	Amazon.com: Structural Anthropology: Books: Claude Levi-Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		diametric structure, matrilateral marriage, concentric dualism, diametric dualism, patrilateral marriage, split representation, shamanistic cure, exogamous moieties, dual organization, avuncular relationship, total social phenomenon, moiety division, moiety system, preferential marriage, first published under the title, generalized exchange, pregnant boy, concentric structure, kinship terminology, marriage rules, other moiety
		Social Anthropology of North American Tribes by Eggan on page 52
		Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences by George E. Marcus
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	the missing link anthropology
		university of british columbia - museum of anthropology
		Before her teaching career, she was involved in primate research and had taught anthropology at George Washington University.
		previously, according to University of Wyoming Anthropology Professor James Ahern.
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