Les Structures Élémentaires de la Parenté

ISBN-13: 9783110173543 / Francuski / Miękka / 2002 / 621 str.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Opis

In Les Structures Elementaires de la Parente, the early opus magnum of French Structuralism, Levi-Strauss tries to explain the systems of kinship and marriage in their enormous diversity and their frequently bizarre institutions, by means of a single principle: the exchange. Exchange is perceived to be the manifestation of fundamental structural constants of the human mind which may also be discerned in other subsystems of culture, most obviously in language. This book represents the first great result of the author's life-long research, dedicated to exploring this relationship, which also led him into the fields of the classification-systems of language and of mythology.

O autorze

Claude Lévi-Strauss, geboren 1908 in Brüssel, gilt als Begründer und führender Vertreter des französischen Strukturismus. Ab 1950 Lehrstuhlinhaber für Vergleichende Religionswissenschaften der schriftlosen Bölker an der École Pratique des Hautes Études und ab 1959 bis zu seiner Emeritierung für Anthropologie am Collège de France. 2009 verstarb Claude Lévi-Strauss.