Structuralism

Structuralism is a general approach in various academic disciplines that seeks to explore the inter-relationships between some fundamental elements, upon which higher mental, linguistic, social, cultural etc "structures" are built, through which then meaning is produced within a particular person, system, culture.

References

• D'Andrade, R. 1995. The development of cognitive anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Francois Dosse. History of Structuralism (two volumes). University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
• Kuper, A. 1988. The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion. London: Routledge.
• Leach, E. 1954. Political Systems of Highland Burma. London: Bell.
• Leach, E. 1966. Rethinking Anthropology. Northampton: Dickens.
• Levi-Strauss, C. 1969. The Elementary Structures of Kinship. London: Eyre and Spottis-woode.