ABSTRACT
Lévi-Strauss (1969) has argued that marriage is essentially an exchange of women by men that arises out of the incest taboo which sets society in motion or creates society. He isolated two types of exchange - generalized and restricted. Other anthropologists then proceeded to examine (and to argue about) whether there are particular kinds of kinship terminology and descent for the different types of exchange, and whether such marriage systems existed or could exist in practice.
