VRA - A Structuralist View

As pertaining to the previous post about still photography, I believe that a structuralist theoretical stance is the strongest tool of interpretation of the still photo in VRA. Structuralist theory is used in archaeology to interpret artifact distributions and assemblages (ie. spatial analysis). A world view or ideology of the inhabitants is then constructed based on the material culture of the people being studied. For example, in South Africa, the Central Cattle Pattern is a structuralist model of social and spatial organization of Bantu speaking peoples during the Early Iron Age. The structuralist view ascertains that these people place high importance on bridewealth and the symbollic importance of cattle. Structuralist theory can be used in VRA in much the same method. The still photo is similar to a map of artifact distributions and both require study and interpretation. In a photo, a person's actions, facial and body expressions, environment, etc. all provide information about the subject's mood, belief systems, morals and other human characteristics all of which can provide a preliminary understanding of the subject. As stated previously, this is similar to archaeology maps where different bits of information may be gleened from a single image. What might be interesting is to see what kind of data can be interpreted from the series of photographs from the previous post.

Does the photograph fit the criteria of VRA?