Reading heterogeneous texts side by side requires a unifying theoretical fiction like the homology.

Evidence

But where several types of materials or objects are juxtaposed, a representational problem arises which can only be solved by a “theory” (which sometimes looks like a “method”). … Levi-Strauss, anticipating postmodern social thought, evades the establishment of some fictive totalizing entity such as Society itself, under which more local and heterogeneous entities of the type already enumerated used to be organically and hierarchically ordered. But he can do so only by inventing a different kind of fictive (or transcendent) entity, in terms of which the various independent “texts” of kinship, village organization, and visual form can be read as somehow being “the same”: this is the method of the homology. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 430

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘homology’ as Levi-Strauss’s method for reading heterogeneous texts as structurally ‘the same’ without positing a totalizing Society.
• SEED: The homology as a method for a cognitive map: reading one’s own kinship, work, and domestic ‘texts’ as structurally homologous.