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Les Structures Élémentaires de la Parenté

Les Structures Élémentaires de la Parenté( )
Author: Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
ISBN:978-3-11-017354-3
Publication Date:Jan 2002
Publisher:Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Imprint:De Gruyter Mouton
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $62.99USD $69.99
Book Description:

In Les Structures Élémentaires de la Parenté , the early opus magnum of French Structuralism, Lévi-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...
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Book Details
Pages:621
Detailed Subjects: Family & Relationships / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.045 x 8.97 Inches
Book Weight:1.982 Pounds
Author Biography
Lévi-Strauss, Claude (Author)
Claude Levi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, was the founder of structural anthropology. This theoretical position assumes that there are structural propensities in the human mind that lead unconsciously toward categorization of physical and social objects, hence such book titles as The Raw and the Cooked (1964) and such expositions of his work by others as The Unconscious in Culture and Elementary Structures Reconsidered. According to Levi-Strauss, the models of society that scholars create are often dual in nature:status-contract (Maine): Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft (Tonnies); mechanical-organic solidarity (Durkheim); folk-urban (Redfield); universalism-particularism (Parsons); and local-cosmopolitan (Merton). Levi-Strauss's writings---some of which have been described by Clifford Geertz as "theoretical treatises set out as travelogues"---have been enormously influential throughout the scholarly world. George Steiner has described him, along with Freud (see also Vol. 5) and Marx (see also Vol. 4), as one of the major architects of the thought of our times.

Levi-Strauss died October 30, 2009. 020



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