Anthropology is the study of culture. Culture is the beliefs, art, laws, morals, and customs of a society. Our brains do things unconsciously that we’re not aware of which is what gives us the need to study these elements. Social scientists want to understand why we develop certain habits, likes and dislikes and things like morals. We apparently assign certain forms to content, which Levi-Strauss believes are the same among all minds past, present and future. He’s saying that there are unconscious structures that we all have and if we were to discover the form of these structures we could theoretically understand why our thinking and communication develops the way it does.
Is Levi-Strauss saying that our unconscious structures are all the same? Even if we’re cavemen they’re the same as the structures in our civilized brains?
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