ABSTRACT

Constituting a measured but devastating critique of Lévi-Strauss's work on kinship systems, this book deals with prescriptive forms of social classification and had far-reaching implications for anthropological theory when it was originally published.
Originally published in 1973.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|9 pages

Incest Taboo: a Bridge

chapter 2|19 pages

Structures and Regimes

chapter 3|3 pages

Prescription and Preference

chapter 8|6 pages

Conclusions