The elementary structures of kinship ... Revised edition translated ... by James Harle Bell, John Richard von Sturmer and Rodney Needham, editor
✍ Scribed by Claude Levi-Strauss
- Book ID
- 100166234
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Year
- 1969;1977
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0807096806
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✦ Synopsis
Professor Levi-Strauss's first major work, Les Structures elementaires de la Parente, has acquired a classic reputation since its original publication in 1949; and it has become the constant focus of academic debate about central theoretical concerns in social anthropology. It is, however, a long and difficult book for many students to read in French, and its arguments have consequently become known, even among professional anthropologists, largely through critical analysis. It was republished in a revised French edition in 1967 with a new foreword by the author, and it is this text with his further emendations that has been used in this translation.
Levi-Strauss applies his intellectual powers to the perennial problem of incest, which he elucidates by means of the concept of exchange as formulated by Marcel Mauss in his famous analysis of the gift (Essai sur le don , 1925). He distinguishes two elementary modes of exchange which...