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Derrida critiques the structuralist anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. He argues that the concept of "structure" that structuralism relies on is just a metaphor, not an objective reality. Levi-Strauss acknowledges problems with binary oppositions like "nature" and "culture" that structuralism uses. He proposes the idea of "bricolage" or improvised analysis using available concepts. However, Derrida argues that Levi-Strauss still clings to nostalgia for an original center or structure, showing the limitatio
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