《忧郁的热带》 Tristes tropiques（1955）
《神话学 I-IV》 Mythologiques I-IV 《结构人类学》 Anthropologie structurale
（1958）
《种族与历史》 Race et histoire（1952）
《结构人类学之二》 Anthropologie）
《亲属关系的基本结构》 Les Structures élémentaires de la parenté （1949）
What is Structure?
Something made up of a number of parts that are held or put together in a particular way. The way in which parts are arranged or put together to form a whole; makeup. The interrelation or arrangement of parts in a complex entity
In other words, structure is rules and principles operative in the world, or we can say , the world is composed of many different elements, each of which has its own function, are closely bound up with each other in sort of a pattern or structure.
Anthropological theories Myth
what is myth Strauss’s study of myth
Introduction of Strauss
Strauss (28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was born to French parents who were living in Brussels at the time, where his father was working as a painter. He studied law and philosophy, but found neither interesting. Then he took up anthropology.
He was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the “father of modern anthropology”
Major works
《野性的思维》 La Pensée sauvage （1962）
What is structuralism?
Structuralism is an intellectual movement which began in France in the 1950s and is first seen in the work of the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. Its essence is the belief that things cannot be understood in isolation----they have to be seen in the context of the larger structures they are part of (hence the term “structuralism”). It emphasizes wholeness and synchronic
Strauss’s four procedures to Structuralism
Strauss specified four procedures basic to structuralism. 1. Structural analysis examines unconscious infrastructures of cultural phenomena 2. It regards the elements of infrastructures as “relational”, not as independent entities. 3. It attends single-mindedly to system 4. It propounds general laws accounting for the underlying organizing patterns of phenomena
Clause Lévi-Strauss
By Zhu Wenzhao
Contents of this presentation：
Introduction of Strauss Structuralism
what is structure what is structuralism Strauss’s four procedures to structuralism
Anthropological theories
Strauss sought to apply the structural linguistics of Saussure to anthropology. At the time, the family was traditionally considered the fundamental object of analysis, but was seen primarily as a self-contained unit consisting of a husband, a wife, and their children. Nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents all were treated as secondary.