Claude Levi-Strauss, requiescat in pace ...

[Michael Bailey]

okay, so he was a structuralist, right.  Discerning patterns in diverse social
rituals.  So then there came to be post-structuralists, the point of which is
that they were "after having" structuralist insights?

what a strange way to denote an intellectual movement: what it came after.

There's an ambiguity in it - one isn't sure whether they assimilated the
methods of structuralism and moved on to a logical next step (which would
be what?), or rejected
the structuralist findings and denied that there are any patterns in
diverse social rituals.

 Or, maybe they just came on the scene after the heyday of the structuralists,
but ignored - or were even unaware of - the structuralists and set about
explaining anthropology with completely different methods...
or maybe even used the same methods over again, without knowing it?

when you say "postwar" there are some automatic associations,
like rebuilding, demobilization, etc

but post-structuralism could be anything, couldn't it?


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