TY - BOOK ID - 77927997 TI - Les structures élémentaires de la parenté PY - 1967 SN - 1282714112 9786612714115 3110226081 9783110226089 3110173549 9783110173543 3111741346 PB - Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Marriage. KW - Primitive societies. KW - Man, Primitive KW - Primitive society KW - Society, Primitive KW - Social evolution KW - Married life KW - Matrimony KW - Nuptiality KW - Wedlock KW - Love KW - Sacraments KW - Betrothal KW - Courtship KW - Families KW - Home KW - Honeymoons KW - Marriage KW - Primitive societies KW - Kinship KW - Anthropology. KW - Human beings KW - Social sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77927997 AB - 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. ER -