Structural Anthropology (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Adam Mars-Jones
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Plot: Didactic, parody
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: The British Isles
- Principal Characters: An expert
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Husbands, Wives, Mythology or myths, Twentieth century, England or English people, Adultery, Revenge, Anthropology or anthropologists, Western Europe or western Europeans, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts
- Locales: Great Britain
The Story
“Structural Anthropology” begins in the form of a lecture on its title subject, as an authority in the field explains how the social science discipline might be seen as an application of the methods of psychoanalysis to an entire social community rather than to an individual person. In his introductory remarks, he notes that the separate approaches of the two techniques that “seek to discover the workings of the human mind” might be combined so that the anthropologist's traditional field of exploration—a culture “at a distance conducive to...
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