Structuralism in Cultural Anthropology

Maranda, Pierre

doi:10.1146/annurev.an.01.100172.001553

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“…Structural anthropologists insist that underlying meaning of human mind can be understood by exploring underneath structures of cultural behavior shaped up by rituals, myths, kinship, institutions and so forth. It has been suggested that, Lévi-Strauss's thought about form bears a resemblance to that of Aristotle insofar as it is nothing more than the shape of contents in a given state of a systemand contents are not determined and developed by the form itself (Maranda, 1972). Karl's following words draw attention with its pertinence to this subject: For the structuralists, then, the meaning of any particular unit is determined primarily by its relation to other units in a system and not by its intrinsic characteristics.…”

Section: Anthropologymentioning

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Structuralist Paradigm and Music

Hongur¹

2017

HUMANITAS - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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Structuralist thought has had an immense influence on scholars from various disciplines including music studies since the early years of the twentieth century. The influence of Saussure's revolutionary ideas incorporating synchronic approaches into the study of language was extremely powerful. Anthropological studies share almost the same background with linguistics in terms of focusing on more scientific basis. Developments beginning from the early nineteenth century mark anthropology's attempts to distinguish itself as a scientific field. Music, in a similar fashion, had always been close to language since both considered a communication system and had endeavoured to differentiate its studies from those of other sciences for a long time, seemed more than ready for its own revolution. Ethnomusicology, the study of social and cultural aspects of music, has also had a strong relationships with anthropology on which structuralism has made its strongest impact. This article traces structuralist principles and theories shaped by linguistics and anthropology that their methodologies and approaches have provided a great support for the underpinning of musical structuralism, employed particularly in music analysis, musicology, and ethnomusicology. Regardless of criticisms structuralist approaches receive, any musical work and its analysis either its cultural or musical context would be considered incomplete without the consideration structural methods.

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Structuralist Paradigm and Music

Hongur¹

2017

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“…Other more complex symmetries or oppositions than Lévi‐Strauss’ initial conceptions may also have psychological relevance as Maranda (1972) describes:…”

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Cross‐cultural structures of concentric and diametric dualism in Lévi‐Strauss’ structural anthropology: structures of relation underlying the self and ego relation?

Downes¹

2003

J Analytical Psychology

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The parallels between Jung's and Lévi-Strauss' concentric cross-cultural structures of the unconscious are highlighted. Lévi-Strauss' basic contrasts between concentric and diametric dualisms are developed into psychologically relevant differences regarding symmetry, connection and separation, and interaction between foreground and background structures respectively. These contrasts between concentric and diametric structures are applied as a common structural framework for understanding Jungian conceptions of the self, the ego and their relations, Freudian views of compensation and repetition in obsessional neurosis, and Winnicott's conception of a child's transitional object. Developing the contrasts between concentric and diametric structures reveals a compensatory relation between both structures. This supports an argument that concentric structures express the self and diametric structures express the ego in their mutual compensatory interrelation. Contrasting concentric with diametric structures challenges traditional Western logic, including Fordham's view that it is contradictory to treat the self as both centre and totality. It also develops an understanding of Jung's transcendent function which seeks to go beyond the egoshadow opposition.

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“…Standard collections are then searched to verify the acceptability of the riddles artificially generated. 28 Köngäs-Maranda's method is used as the starting point of the section below, "The Joke Analyzed as a Semantic Structure", which demonstrates how the joke does not have a semantically self-referential logical structure. Being able to identify the logical structure of the riddle is one thing.…”

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The Semantic Structure of the Joke and Riddle: Theoretical Positioning

Johnson¹

1975

Semiotica

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Structuralism in Cultural Anthropology

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Structuralist Paradigm and Music

Structuralist Paradigm and Music

Cross‐cultural structures of concentric and diametric dualism in Lévi‐Strauss’ structural anthropology: structures of relation underlying the self and ego relation?

The Semantic Structure of the Joke and Riddle: Theoretical Positioning

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