结构人类学

结构人类学（structural anthropology）是文化人类学的其中一个学派，概念来自克劳德·李维-史陀的构思。他认为人类会把世界上的东西以二元方式表述，譬如高低、内外、人和动物、生死。这些概念在不同的文化领域都能够被了解。“From the very start," he wrote, "the process of visual perception makes use of binary oppositions.”[结构主义及生态学, 1972]

概念

他的手法基本上来自索绪尔结构语言学。他说：“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/