Published 2020-07-17
Keywords
- Tholkappiyam,
- Hero Stone,
- Psychological Structures,
- Behaviour
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Abstract
Structuralism focused how human behaviour is determined by cultural, social and psychological structures. Structuralists believe that the underlying structures which organize rules and units into meaningful systems are generated by the human mind itself and not by sense perception. Levi-Strauss applied this approach to anthropology. The influence of this approach spread to other fields until the 1960s. The gap between word (signifier) and the meaning (signified) that Saussure discovered in language does not reflect the world of language. It led to a deep thought about what makes up the world. The purpose of this article is to highlight the traces of structuralist thought such as signifier, signified, hidden meaning, multiple meaning can be found in the ancient grammar Tholkappiyam.
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