結構人類學

結構人類學（structural anthropology）是文化人類學的其中一個學派，概念來自克勞德·李維-史陀的構思。他認為人類會把世界上的東西以二元方式表述，譬如高低、內外、人和動物、生死。這些概念在不同的文化領域都能夠被了解。「From the very start," he wrote, "the process of visual perception makes use of binary oppositions.」[結構主義及生態學, 1972]

概念

他的手法基本上來自索緒爾結構語言學。他說：「Only those who practice structural analysis are made aware by their daily work of what they are actually trying to do: that is, to reunite perspectives which the narrow scientific outlook of the last centuries has for too long believed to be mutually exclusive: sensibility and intellect, quality and quantity, the concrete and the geometrical, or as we say today, the "etic" and the "emic."」 [1972]

外部链接

• Interview with Sir Edmund Leach, website of Prof. Alan MacFarlane at http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/Leach.html
• Excellent kinship diagrams that exemplify cross-cousin marriage structures can be found at http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/tutor/