In Les Structures Elementaires de la Parente , the early opus magnum of French Structuralism, Levi-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.
- ISBN10 3110226081
- ISBN13 9783110226089
- Publish Date 23 December 2009 (first published 1 December 1968)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country DE
- Publisher De Gruyter
- Imprint De Gruyter Mouton
- Edition Reedition 2ieme ed. 1967.
- Format eBook
- Pages 621
- Language French
- URL https://degruyter.com/isbn/9783110226089