1st Edition
Elementary Structures Reconsidered Levi-Strauss on Kinship
By Francis Korn
Copyright 1973
192 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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
