Structural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology

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The questions to which formal and empirical analyses are most appropriately addressed are fundamentally different. "Explanation" requires both to be joined; and the process of joining them raises the most complex and scientifically least well treated methodological questions. It may be necessary to state here that I am exaggerating the degree of separation possible between formal and empirical study. Any empirical analysis must of necessity utilize formal structures, categories, modes of connection; and formal analyses cannot be entirely empty, even if they only use points, lines, numbers, and equal signs.

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Lévi-Strauss, C. (2017). Structural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology. In Anthropological Theory: A Sourcebook (pp. 530–540). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315082271_51

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