Levi Strauss’ Work on Language and Culture (838 words, 5 pages)
Levi-Strauss analysed cultural phenomena such as languages,myths and kinship systems to discover what ordered patterns, orstructures, they seemed to display. These, he suggested, couldreveal the structure of the human mind. He reasoned that behindthe surface of individual cultures there must exist naturalproperties (universals) common to us all. Levi-Strauss focusedhis attention ...
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