structural anthropology

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noun

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

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structural anthropology
noun
an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena [syn: structuralism]

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"In view of the fact that they are ostensibly interested in many of the same problems, the extent to which sociologists and anthropologists have maintained fundamentally distinctive approaches is one of the more curious facts in the history of Western thought. The sociological attitude has tended toward the practical and present, the anthropological toward pure understanding and the past. Anthropology developed in the classes; sociology in the masses. A rich man's hobby can permit itself the luxury of aesthetic exultation in fascinatingly different and complex materials. The anthropologist has also been considered less socially dangerous by the conservative because he was "a gentleman" and preoccupied with the long ago and the far away."

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