Structuralism Ritual
claude lévi-strauss, french anthropologist, regarded social , cultural organization symbolic systems of communication shaped inherent structure of human brain. therefore argued symbol systems not reflections of social structure functionalists believed, imposed on social relations organize them. lévi-strauss viewed myth , ritual complementary symbol systems, 1 verbal, 1 non-verbal. lévi-strauss not concerned develop theory of ritual (although did produce four-volume analysis of myth) influential later scholars of ritual such mary douglas , edmund leach.
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