This thinker countered Vladimir Propp's approach to treating whole myths as the units of analysis by instead analyzing myths as bundles of minimal units. This thinker claimed that concepts derive their meaning only by being one half of a "binary contrast", and that this oppositional way of thinking is universal to humans across cultures. This inventor of the "mytheme" also coined a term for someone who solves new social problems by (*) re-assembling existing materials, rather than creating new materials. This creator of Alliance Theory contrasted the idea of the bricoleur with the engineer. For 10 points, name this author of Elementary Struct
This thinker countered Vladimir Propp's approach to treating whole myths as the units of analysis by instead analyzing myths as bundles of minimal units. This thinker claimed that concepts derive their meaning only by being one half of a "binary contrast", and that this oppositional way of thinking is universal to humans across cultures. This inventor of the "mytheme" also coined a term for someone who solves new social problems by (*) re-assembling existing materials, rather than creating new materials. This creator of Alliance Theory contrasted the idea of the bricoleur with the engineer. For 10 points, name this author of Elementary Structures of Kinship and The Savage Mind, a French Structuralist anthropologist.
This thinker countered Vladimir Propp's approach to treating whole myths as the units of analysis by instead analyzing myths as bundles of minimal units.
Claude Lévi-Strauss