Critique of Archaeological Reason
THEMES

Structure

Giorgio Buccellati, January 2014

Introduction
The basic thrust of the concept
The emergence of the term
Structure as model
The -ism development
Significance for archaeology

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Introduction

     The history of the term, of "structure" is most remarkable, because those who most closely described the essential traits of the concept did not use the term, and those who used it did not, in point of fact, brought out in full the deeper and more powerful implications of the concept.
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The basic thrust of the concept

Kant
de Saussure
Cassirer
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The emergence of the term

Dilthey
Levy-Strauss
Freud
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Structure as model

Kroeber
Levy-Strauss
Chang 1978 "Historical Reality"
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The -ism reduction

reductive, the -ism development
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Significance for archaeology