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
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