FRENCH

Les Structures Élémentaires de la Parenté

By Claude Levi-Strauss

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2002
ISBN
9783110226089, 9783110173543
DOI
10.1515/9783110226089
Language
french
Format
PDF
Filesize
55 MB (58048959 bytes)
Edition
Réédition 2ième éd. 1967.
Pages
621\624
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-26 00:42:30

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 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.

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