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=== Lévi-Strauss ===
Structuralism rejected the concept of [[Human Freedom|human freedom]] and choice, focusing instead on the way that human experience and behaviour is determined by various structures. The most important initial work on this score was Lévi-Strauss's 1949 volume ''[[The Elementary Structures of Kinship]]''. Lévi-Strauss had known [[Roman Jakobson]] during their time together at the [[The New School|New School]] in [[New York City|New York]] during [[World War II|WWII]] and was influenced by both Jakobson's structuralism, as well as the American [[anthropology|anthropological]] tradition. 

In ''Elementary Structures'', he examined [[kinship]] systems from a structural point of view and demonstrated how apparently different social organizations were different permutations of a few basic kinship structures. In the late 1958, he published ''[[Structural Anthropology]]'', a collection of essays outlining his program for structuralism.