Elementary Structures Reconsidered: Levi-Strauss on Kinship
Constituting a measured but devastating critique of Lévi-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.
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Elementary Structures Reconsidered: Levi-Strauss on Kinship
Constituting a measured but devastating critique of Lévi-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.
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Elementary Structures Reconsidered: Levi-Strauss on Kinship

Elementary Structures Reconsidered: Levi-Strauss on Kinship

by Francis Korn
Elementary Structures Reconsidered: Levi-Strauss on Kinship

Elementary Structures Reconsidered: Levi-Strauss on Kinship

by Francis Korn

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Constituting a measured but devastating critique of Lévi-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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781136535840
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/05/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 4 MB

Table of Contents

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
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