Aug 30, 2008
STRUCTURALISM AND LEVI-STRAUSS: A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PARADIGM
In the very beginning of anthropology, the theorists believed in the universality of cultural stages stemming from the psychic unity of mankind. When anthropology developed as an empirical science, evolutionism was replaced by functionalism negating the prior assumption. Later in the mid-twentieth century French anthropologist as well as philosopher Levi-Strauss introduced a new and different theoretical model in the study of culture named ‘Structuralism’.
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