Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 10:36:40 +0100 From: Julia Ulrich <Julia.UlrichdeGruyter.com> Subject: Anthropology: Claude L�vi-Strauss: Les Structures �l�mentaire de la Parent�( reprint of the 2nd edition)
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Reprint of the 2nd edition
Claude L�vi-Strauss
2001. 23 x 15,5 cm. xxx, 549 pages.
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In 'Les Structures �l�mentaires de la Parent�', the early opus magnum of
French Structuralism, L�vi-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.
FROM THE CONTENTS:
Pr�face de la premi�re �dition
Pr�face de la deuxi�me �dition
Introduction:
1. Nature et culture
2. Le probl�me de l'inceste
Premi�re Partie
L'�CHANGE RESTREINT
I: Les fondements de l'echange
3. L'univers des r�gles
4. Endogamie et exogamie
5. Le principe de r�ciprocit�
6. L'organisation dualiste
7. L'illusion archaique
8. L'alliance et la filiation
9. Le mariage des cousins
10. L'echange matrimonial
II: L'Australie
11. Les syst�mes classiques
12. Le syst�me murngin
13. R�gimes harmoniques et r�gimes dysharmoniques
14. Appendice � la premi�re partie
Deuxi�me Partie
L'�CHANGE G�N�RALIS�
I: Format simple de l'�change g�n�ralis�
15. Les donneurs de femmes
16. L'�change et l'achat
17. Limites externes de l'�change g�n�ralis�
18. Limites internes de l'�change g�n�ralis�
II: Le syst�me chinois
19. La th�orie de granet
20. L'ordre Tchao Mou
21. Le mariage matrilat�ral
22. Le mariage oblique
23. Les syst�mes p�riph�riques
III: L'Inde
24. L'os et la chair
25. Clans et castes
26. Les structures asym�triques
27. Les cycles de r�ciprocit�
Conclusion
28. Passage aux structures complexes
29. Les principes de la parent�
INDEX
TABLE DES FIGURES
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