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This paper picks up the threads of argument where I left them in my article on the structural-configurational approach (Pouwer 1974: 238–255). I then said: “The study of structural history, that is basically the history of the succession of varying configurations of structuring principles in their dialectic interaction with the stream of signified events, has barely begun. It .... is logically possible because history and structure can be seen as ‘going together’, since the two of them are united in that they can only be known by way of signification. In terms of signification the distinction between the order of events, and the order of structure is only an analytic one” (Rossi, 1974: 253). Let me point up and elaborate on this fairly cryptic statement.
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Pouwer, J. (1975). Structural History: A New Guinea Case Study. In: Van Beek, W.E.A., Scherer, J.H. (eds) Explorations in the anthropology of religion. Verhandelingen. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4902-2_7
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