structuralist
nounEtymology From structural + -ist.
1
An advocate or follower of structuralism.
- For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:
- Derived terms
- antistructuralist, neostructuralist, poststructuralist
- Related terms
- structuralism