Symbolism and Language in Anthropology

Post-structuralism abandoned the exact propositions of structural linguistics in anthropology. But still it retained the idea which then got carried over into Derrida's deconstructionism, that all statements are inherently paradoxical or circular. We actually... Our linguistic symbols like dog and table aren't just defined in like a dictionary definition in terms of an animal in mammal,. They're little pictures in the dictionary and they are perceptual system connects us to reality.