by Claude Lévi-Strauss · Ediciones Paidós · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475091006
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This book is an undisputed classic of contemporary structuralism applied to ethnology. Lévi-Strauss analyzes kinship systems as systems whose nomenclature allows determining the circle of relatives and acquaintances, prescribing marriage with certain relatives and prohibiting it with others. The fundamental purpose of the book is to show that the rules of marriage, nomenclature, and the system of privileges and prohibitions are inseparable aspects of the structure of the system under consideration. Jean Lacroix describes this work as a great scientific and philosophical work.
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world.
