Email this article How structuralism matters
Abstract
How does structuralism matter? How does it still matter well past its heyday in anthropology and the other so-called “sciences of man?” In this lecture, which is one part intellectual memoir, one part lay of the land, with some autoethnography involving my disabled daughter thrown in at the end, I suggest that certain premises associated with structuralism are at the heart of anthropology’s most interesting new work.
Keywords
structuralism, Lévi-Strauss, kinship, Elementary structures of kinship, relationality, difference, disability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14318/hau6.3.008
