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1. Anthropology

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   Structuralism and Symbolic Analysis
   The mid-20th century saw the rise of structural approaches, most notably Claude Lévi-Strauss's structuralism. This perspective sought universal, underlying mental structures (often binary oppositions) that organize human thought and myth. Lévi-Strauss famously argued that kinship systems were merely complex algebraic matrices designed to manage the inherent cognitive dissonance produced by the human recognition of mortality $\text{[9]}$. The mathematical representation for the ideal marriage exchange partner in the *Tro…

2. Structuralism

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   Application in Anthropology: Lévi-Strauss
   The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss was instrumental in transplanting Saussurean principles from linguistics to the study of human culture, particularly kinship systems and mythology. Lévi-Strauss argued that underlying all superficial cultural variations are universal, unconscious mental structures—specifically, the innate human tendency toward binary opposition.
   Lévi-Strauss often modeled his analyses using logical operations, asserting that the structure of a myth, for instance, resolves an inherent co…