He split stories into rows and columns, revealing synchronic sequences to be read diachronically.
He split stories into rows and columns, revealing synchronic sequences to be read diachronically. As he focused on the role of myth as a "part of human speech", he relied on many linguistic ideas developed by Saussure and developed the idea of a mytheme. In contrast with Radcliffe-Brown's decent theory, his Elementary Structures of Kinship promoted an alliance theory of kinship. His principle of opposition can be seen in the title of The Raw and the Cooked, one part of his masterpiece. For that work, he spent many years following a single myth's progression throughout North America – the result was the four volume Mythologiques. For 10 points, name this French anthropologist, best known for The Savage Mind.
He split stories into rows and columns, revealing synchronic sequences to be read diachronically.
Claude {Levi-Strauss}