Symmetry and Entropy: Mathematical Metaphors in the Work of Levi-Strauss [and Comments and Reply]

Claude Levi-Strauss's structuralism is considered as part of an intellectual trend that gained currency during the first half of the 1900s--a trend toward greater concern for invariance and structure that is characterized by the importance of the concept of the transformation group. Comment and...

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Published in:Current anthropology 1990-08, Vol.31 (4), p.367-385
Main Authors: Mauro W. Barbosa de Almeida, Arcand, Bernard, Jorion, Paul, Assaba, Claude, Kenny, Michael G., Klein, Sheldon, Kronenfeld, David B., Nash, Jesse W., Palis, Jacob, Siemens, Stephen David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Coordinate systems
Cultural anthropology
Entropy
Ethnology
Game theory
General studies
History of ethnology
Kinship
Levi-Strauss, Claude
Linguistic anthropology
Mathematical objects
Mathematics
Physics
Science
Scientists
Social anthropology
Structuralism
Theoretical Problems
Topological spaces
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Summary:Claude Levi-Strauss's structuralism is considered as part of an intellectual trend that gained currency during the first half of the 1900s--a trend toward greater concern for invariance and structure that is characterized by the importance of the concept of the transformation group. Comment and reply are offered.
ISSN:0011-3204
1537-5382
DOI:10.1086/203850