Elementary Structures Reconsidered: Levi-Strauss on Kinship

ISBN-13: 9780415866538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str.

Francis Korn

Opis

Constituting a measured but devastating critique of Levi-Strauss's work on kinship systems, this book deals with prescriptive forms of social classification and had far-reaching implications for anthropological theory when it was originally published.
Originally published in 1973.

Spis treści

1. Incest Taboo: a Bridge 2. Structures and Regimes 3. Prescription and Preference 4. Terminology and 'Structure': the Dieri Case 5. A Question of Preferences: the Iatmul Case 6. Some Comments on Alternation: the Mara Case 7. Permutation Models and Prescriptive Systems 8. Conclusions