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  • Structuralism is an approach to the human sciences that attempts to analyze a specific field (for instance, mythology) as a complex system of interrelated parts.

    Wikipedia on Derrida and deconstruction, Foucault and structuralism, postmodernism and discourse 2009

  • The most important was changing "diatronic" in my indnept glance into the idea of Structuralism and how it became linguistic anthropology...the DIACHRONIC being the evolution of a language and the synchronic being systemic theory of language.

    Among the Simple PART 2 The Daily Growler 2006

  • Structuralism looks at the way social structures, for example medicine and education, affect people and also at the ideologies (widely held sets of beliefs) which impact on our lives.

    Postmodernism and structuralism: a taster 2009

  • Structuralism historically gave way to poststructuralism; often the role of postmodernism within the analytic tradition is played down, although works by major figures of the analytic tradition in the 20th century [...] show a similarity with works in the continental tradition for their lack of belief in absolute truth as well as in the pliability of language.

    Wikipedia on Derrida and deconstruction, Foucault and structuralism, postmodernism and discourse 2009

  • I recall seeing an early 60s Australian ethnographic film in New Guinea, where the filmmaker was clearly influenced heavily by Levi-Strauss and presented most of the material in terms of the Structuralism that was more or less at its height at the time.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Yes I get ffkn grmpy whn I’m on fkn deadline. 2009

  • Structuralism” is missing in its fundamental path.

    Hollywood Studios Lose Bid For Terminator Franchise Rights | /Film 2010

  • Structuralism was a manifestation of the culmination of modern thought, which turns the world into a series of mathematically articulated objects – essentially the precondition for technology.

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  • Structuralism was a manifestation of the culmination of modern thought, which turns the world into a series of mathematically articulated objects – essentially the precondition for technology.

    Perception of an absence where one misses something Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • In addition to British Romanticism, her research interests include Ecocriticism, Post-Structuralism, Systems

    About This Volume 2007

  • Structuralism was a manifestation of the culmination of modern thought, which turns the world into a series of mathematically articulated objects – essentially the precondition for technology.

    Archive 2009-05-01 enowning 2009

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