Essays Tagged: "Claude Lévi-Strauss"
Levi Strauss: polarities and deconstruction
In the book, Introducing Levi-Strauss, Claude Levi-Strauss states his views of structuralism, the systems, and their opposites. He uses pol ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Defining Humaness
rl Jung who worked closely with Sigmund Freud and his analysis. Another popular social scientist is Claude Levi Strauss. He concentrated on the structural study of myths. Furthermore, Alfred Adler is ... tional disturbances as an attempt to find personal and spiritual wholeness. (Jung Carl, MSN Encarta)Claude Levi-Strauss was a popular French anthropologist who was most well-known for his development ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
STRUCTURALISM
function) about some external context (referential function) using a code (metalinguistic function).Claude Lévi-Strauss used language-data to verify social rules, thus he was interested in myth ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Claude Levi-Strauss (b. 1908)
LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude), structuralism anthropologist. Levi-Strauss was born in Brussels and studied at the Universi ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
The Structural Aproach To Myth
th, and thirdly, the "˜structural theory of myth propounded by the great French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.' This theory, complicated to say the least, centres on the belief that myth con ... cuss the strengths and weaknesses of the theory, with reference to several other schools of thought.Claude Levi-Strauss had his background in the field of anthropology, and thus was primarily interest ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Structural Aproach To Myth
th, and thirdly, the "˜structural theory of myth propounded by the great French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.' This theory, complicated to say the least, centres on the belief that myth con ... cuss the strengths and weaknesses of the theory, with reference to several other schools of thought.Claude Levi-Strauss had his background in the field of anthropology, and thus was primarily interest ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Incest and Family Structure
up alliances as well as serves to form structures of social networks.ReferencesLévi-Strauss, Claude 1971, The Elementary Structures of Kinship Beacon Press; New Ed edition
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Structuralism
society.The term structuralism appeared for the first time in the works of a French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss which encouraged the work of Michael Foucault, Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
How are marriages affected by a culture's economics and subsistence?
'. On the other hand, exogamy is the system of marrying outside a specified group, or out-breeding. Claude Lévi-Strauss saw exogamy as a form of exchange in which wife giving and wife taking cr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
foundation of mythology
rld have different Myths. They all share the basic human desire to understand life and its meaning. Claude Lévi-Strauss expresses similar sentiments about myth's functions when he postulates th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays