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The Politics of Structuralism in France

Roland Barthes borrowed on structural ethnography to explain everyday mass media communications in France. Levi Schrauss' 1962 work, The Savage Mind, contends that modern and primitive cultures were organized around a complex system of informational codes. And here you start seeing the politics of structuralism that Sartre was not so ready to embrace. But what you actually saw was a totally different strategy for grappling with the political fallout of decolonization.

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