Which anthropologist applied structuralist principles to the study of myths and kinship, treating culture like a language?
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Correct answer: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Lévi-Strauss argued that myths across different cultures share universal structures. He utilized 'mythemes' to show how the human mind organizes the world into binary oppositions.
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