ABSTRACT
From the 1950s to the 1980s the French anthropologist Claude LéviStrauss applied a methodology known as structuralism to cultural anthropology. Though it has had its critics, the intellectual legacy of structuralist thought has been enduring in various fields of Western scholarship in the humanities and social sciences; once one is initiated it is very difficult not to view the subject through new lenses and at least to become aware of previously unperceived possibilities.
