Discuss the contribution of Levi-Strauss and Edmund Leach to the understanding of social structure. 

Claude Levi-Strauss was a French social anthropologist and a leading exponent of structuralism. Often known as “the “father of modern anthropology”, he revolutionized the world of social anthropology by implementing the methods of structuralist analysis developed by Saussuro in the field of cultural relations.Structuralism, in cultural anthropology, the school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, in which cultures, viewed as systems, are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their elements.

Levi-Strauss is generally credited with introducing the theory of “Structuralism” to cultural anthropology. At risk of over-simplifying too much, let me just suggest that this approach is intended to explore the way that different aspects of a culture fit together into a unified whole, and express symbolic significance. It was a reaction to, and stands in contradistinction to, the “functionalist” school of thought, which had formerly prevailed, and which held that every element of culture has some functional purpose with some survival-of-the-fittest value, even _____ ____ _______ ___ ____ _________ _________ ___ ____ _______ ______ ________.
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