ANTH 2170 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Medical Diagnosis, Ethnocentrism
12 Dec 2015
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All cultures are sign systems that express deeply help cognitive predispositions to categorize the world into binary oppositions. His work: kinship, rituals, mythology, research in brazil. Google: structural anthropology = immutable (unchangeable/absolute) deep structures exist in all cultural practices have homologous counterparts in other cultures. Alliance theory = incest taboo prohibits endogamy and pushes people towards exogamy. Structuralism in anthropology involves the argument that societies tend to structure their worldviews in binary oppositions. i. e. , day/night, life/death, scared/profane, village/wilderness, raw/cooked, male/female) It considers binary oppositions to be basic patterns of social classification which reflect deep structures of the human mind . Includes the argument that binary oppositions involve a third concept which works as a mediator (resolves binary oppositions) ternary opposition i. e. , day/night is mediated by dusk/dawn. Structural anthropology lost much of its scholarly influence by the. 1980"s and is no longer considered universally applicable.
