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This 4 page paper examines aspects of linguistics within anthropology though the functionalist and structuralist approaches of de Saussure and Jakobson with analytical approaches from Levi-Strauss. The paper also considers how Leach defines the variation of myth within cultural societies. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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than its sub discipline archaeology that studies mans past and history. Anthropology therefore, is the study of man and his environment, his social surroundings, the economic factors that enable
him to gain wealth or grow, his languages, beliefs, familial relationships, values and many other aspects that make up the society of mankind.
Although anthropologists do not dig up the past they do have a duty of care to those sites they work on, moreover this duty of care and responsibility to
those people whom they have become involved with during research and fieldwork. As fieldworkers they have a responsibly to those they come into contact with and form close
relationships with, this includes the property of the peoples including animal, the fieldworkers also have to undertake and a level a moral duty coupled with an ethical consideration of those
that aid in their investigations. Question 1 Anthropology has had many pioneers, it has been these pioneers who have looked at the various
disciplines of theory and placed them within their own contexts when studying the aspects of human history and modern man (Henaff, 1998). One of these pioneers was Claude Levi-Strauss, Strauss,
an influential man within the fields of social studies, philosophy, religion, and literature (Levi-Strauss, 2001, 1974). Levi-Strauss looked at anthropology from a structuralist discipline. Strauss also looked at
the language theories used by de Saussure and applied the study to his outlook of anthropology (Henaff, 1998). Strauss argued that every story stemmed from a mythical cycle and has
a similar meaning to other stories from the same cycles. Therefore, he stated that the individual story became the parole and the cycle of tales becomes the language (Levi-Strauss, 1974).
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