The Anthropologie structurale deux (also known by the title of Structural Anthropology) is a collection of texts by Claude Lévi-Strauss that was first published in 1973, the year Lévi-Strauss was elected to the Académie française.^[1] The texts are in turn a result of an earlier collection of texts, Anthropologie structurale, that he had published in 1958.

The work is considered to be the origin of the idea of structural anthropology.^[2]

Table of Contents

Perspective Views

• The Scope of Anthropology
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Founder of the Sciences of Man
• What Ethnology owes to Durkheim
• The Work of the Bureau of American Ethnology and Its Lessons
• Comparative Religions of Nonliterate Peoples

Social Organization

• The Meaning and Use of the Notion of Model
• Reflections on the Atom of Kinship

Mythology and Ritual

• Structure and Form: Reflections on a Work by Vladimir Propp
• The Story of Asdiwal
• Four Winnebago Myths
• The Sex of the Sun and Moon
• Mushrooms in Culture: Apropos of a Book by R.G. Wasson
• Relations of Symmetry Between Rituals and Myths of Neighboring Peoples
• How Myths Die

Humanism and the Humanities

• Answers to Some Investigations
• Scientific Criteria in the Social and Human Disciplines
• Cultural Discontinuity and Economic and Social Development
• Race and History