MEMAHAMI ANTROPOLOGI STRUKTURAL CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS
Abstract: French structuralism
pioneered by Saussure. The term structure is always pointing to the
understanding of language as a system. By the school of Prague (Jacobson and
Trubetzkoy) term structure refers to the understanding of the structure of a
system Saussurean structural linguistic methods would also schools of Prague is
then influenced Levi-Strauss. Levi-Strauss develop the linguistic methods and
apply them in social anthropology, so the approach is called structuralism
ethnological or anthropological structural. In this approach, (1) Relation
decisive difference. Culture is seen as grammar, and task analysis of the
cultural phenomenon is no longer understand the symptoms of the particular
separate / distinct, but found "hidden code grammatical" that makes
every symptom particular it has a meaning in relationship-difference with
symptoms particular as the whole system marker. (2) The emphasis on synchronous
approach. Following the view Saussure that the meaning of a term defined by his
relations at a given point in time, which is synchronous with other terms, Levi-Strauss
argued relations a cultural phenomenon with phenomena other at certain point of
time is what determine the meaning of the phenomenon. So relations sinkronislah
decisive, not the diachronic. The identity of a person / group of people seemed
to only be identified through distinction from the other. Always understood
identity is relational. Humans know himself in meetings and interactions with
the world and other people. I'm me, precisely because there is the other, who
is different from me.
Penulis: Gusti A. B Menoh
Kode Jurnal: jpsosiologidd130511
