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The 35 pages that link to Claude Lévi-Strauss, each with the reason it gives.

• Structural anthropologyBroader topic: He developed the approach's best-known analyses and theoretical framework.

• MythRelated: His method asks how variations of a myth organize tensions such as nature and culture.

• Gift economyRelated: His theories treated exchange, especially marriage exchange, as a structure binding groups.

• Ferdinand de SaussureRelated: Lévi-Strauss adapted Saussurean ideas about sign systems to anthropology.

• Jacques DerridaRelated: Derrida’s critique of structuralism famously engaged Lévi-Strauss’s analysis of writing and culture.

• Pierre BourdieuRelated: Bourdieu engaged with structural anthropology while developing an account centered on practice.

• Comparative mythologyRelated: His structural analyses showed how comparisons could focus on transformations rather than identical plots.

• NarratologyRelated: His structural analysis of myth broadened the study of narrative beyond literary texts.

• Roland BarthesRelated: His structural anthropology shared Barthes’s interest in uncovering cultural systems beneath surface forms.

• Roman JakobsonRelated: His encounter with Jakobson helped carry structural linguistics into anthropology.

• TotemismRelated: His 1962 critique challenged the idea that totemism forms one universal institution.

• Marcel MaussRelated: Lévi-Strauss argued that Mauss’s work anticipated structural analysis of exchange and social relations.

• Joseph CampbellCompared with: His approach offers a prominent alternative to Campbell’s hero-centered comparisons.

• Kinship terminologyRelated: His alliance theory connected kinship patterns to marriage exchange.

• Octavio PazRelated: Paz’s essays engage the comparative study of myth and culture that Lévi-Strauss made influential.

• The Hero with a Thousand FacesCompared with: His method explains mythic recurrence through social structures rather than a single hero’s journey.

• Alliance theoryRelated: He gave alliance theory its influential structural formulation.

• Gayle RubinRelated: Rubin reworks his account of women’s exchange to analyze gender oppression.

• The GiftRelated: Lévi-Strauss recast exchange as a central structure of social relationships.

• Victor TurnerCompared with: His structural method offers a prominent alternative to Turner’s process-oriented analysis.

• Vladimir ProppRelated: Lévi-Strauss’s critique raised questions about whether Propp’s model captured mythic structure.

• Edmund LeachRelated: Leach adapted Lévi-Strauss’s structural analysis while disputing parts of his approach.

• Gift exchangeRelated: He extended exchange analysis to kinship and marriage relations.

• Incest tabooRelated: His alliance theory treats prohibitions as rules that redirect marriage beyond the immediate family.

• Jacques LacanRelated: His structural anthropology helped shape Lacan’s account of symbolic systems and kinship.

• Binary oppositionRelated: He used paired contrasts to explain patterns shared across myths and cultures.

• Mary DouglasCompared with: His structural analysis offers a nearby approach to classification, with a different emphasis from Douglas’s social boundaries.

• History of anthropologyBroader topic: Structuralism redirected twentieth-century anthropology toward underlying systems of relation and meaning.

• Raymond AronRelated: Aron and Lévi-Strauss represented contrasting approaches to explaining modern societies.

• House societyRelated: He formulated the house society concept to account for groups that join diverse social principles.

• IncestRelated: His theory treated incest prohibition as a rule that directs marriage beyond the immediate family.

• Alfred Radcliffe-BrownCompared with: His structuralism shared an interest in relations but sought different explanatory patterns.

• Georges DumézilCompared with: Lévi-Strauss also sought underlying mythic structures but emphasized transformations rather than Dumézil's inherited functions.

• Adam KuperCompared with: His structuralism offers a distinct framework in debates about kinship and society.

• TotemRelated: He challenged the idea that totemism was a single, distinct social institution.