结构主义观点从语言学和心理学被引到社会科学的主导地位,并且如格里哥里所认为,最终也应用于人文地理学,莱维·施特劳斯对此起了突出作用,故此社会地理学界对结构人类学的忽视是颇令人奇怪的。莱维·施特劳斯的结构人类学作为当代社会“必不可少的一面”,确实值得密切注意。在《如何成为一个人类学者》那篇坦率的文章里,莱维·施特劳斯提到他早期思想发展的三个重要影响因素:地质学、精神分析学和马克思主义。他认为这三者是相通的,因为它们都运用这样一种解释方法,即把一种对已知事物的理解应用到另一事物中。地质学是通过引证地表底层的地质结构而广泛解释地壳的表面形态;弗洛伊德的精神分析学说是把行为联 Structuralist perspectives have been led from linguistics and psychology to dominance of the social sciences and Levi Strauss has played a prominent role in the human geography, as Gregory argues, and so The neglect of structural anthropology in the social geography community is quite strange. The structural anthropology of Levi Strauss, as an “essential aspect” of contemporary society, does indeed warrant close attention. In his frank article How to Become an Anthropologist, Levi Strauss mentions three important determinants of his early thoughts: geology, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. He believes these three are interlinked, because they all use a method of interpretation that applies an understanding of what is known to another. Geology is the extensive explanation of the surface morphology of the crust by citing the underlying geological structure of the earth’s surface; Freud’s psychoanalytic theory is the behavior of the United