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social structures  

Definition

  • Social structure has been used in anthropology as the descriptor for a variety of conceptualizations of human organization. The term, wrote Claude Lévi-Strauss, “has nothing to do with empirical reality but with models which are built up after it.” The building up of such models was a central preoccupation in anthropology in the mid-20th century. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Social Structures]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-DZKGZLQK-0

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