The Elementary Structures of Kinship
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''The Elementary Structures of Kinship'' was published in [[1949]] and quickly came to be regarded as one of the most important [[anthropological]] works on [[kinship]]. It was even reviewed favorably by [[Simone de Beauvoir]], who viewed it as an important statement of the [[feminism|position of women]] in [[non-western]] cultures. A play on the title of [[Émile Durkheim|Durkheim's]] famous ''[[Elementary Forms of the Religious Life]]'', ''Elementary Structures'' re-examined how people organized their [[families]] by examining the logical structures that underlay relationships rather than their contents. While British anthropologists such as [[Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown]] argued that kinship was based on ''[[descent]]'' from a common ancestor, Lévi-Strauss argued that kinship was based on the ''[[Alliance theory|alliance]]'' between two families that formed when women from one group married men from another. | ''The Elementary Structures of Kinship'' was published in [[1949]] and quickly came to be regarded as one of the most important [[anthropological]] works on [[kinship]]. It was even reviewed favorably by [[Simone de Beauvoir]], who viewed it as an important statement of the [[feminism|position of women]] in [[non-western]] cultures. A play on the title of [[Émile Durkheim|Durkheim's]] famous ''[[Elementary Forms of the Religious Life]]'', ''Elementary Structures'' re-examined how people organized their [[families]] by examining the logical structures that underlay relationships rather than their contents. While British anthropologists such as [[Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown]] argued that kinship was based on ''[[descent]]'' from a common ancestor, Lévi-Strauss argued that kinship was based on the ''[[Alliance theory|alliance]]'' between two families that formed when women from one group married men from another. | ||
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The Elementary Structures of Kinship (French: Les structures élémentaires de la parenté) is a book by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, first published in 1949.
After a brief stint from 1946 to 1947 as a cultural attaché to the French embassy in Washington, DC, Lévi-Strauss returned to Paris in 1948. It was at this time that he received his doctorate from the Sorbonne by submitting, in the French tradition, both a "major" and a "minor" thesis. These were The Family and Social Life of the Nambikwara Indians and The Elementary Structures of Kinship.
The Elementary Structures of Kinship was published in 1949 and quickly came to be regarded as one of the most important anthropological works on kinship. It was even reviewed favorably by Simone de Beauvoir, who viewed it as an important statement of the position of women in non-western cultures. A play on the title of Durkheim's famous Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Elementary Structures re-examined how people organized their families by examining the logical structures that underlay relationships rather than their contents. While British anthropologists such as Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown argued that kinship was based on descent from a common ancestor, Lévi-Strauss argued that kinship was based on the alliance between two families that formed when women from one group married men from another.
See also
- Alliance theory
- Incest taboo
- Structural anthropology
- Exchange of women
- Gender Trouble
- Kula ring
- 1949 in anthropology