Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Incest Taboo: a Bridge; 2 Structures and Regimes; 3 Prescription and Preference; 4 Terminology and 'Structure': the Dieri Case; 5 A Question of Preferences: the Iatmül Case; 6 Some Comments on Alternation: the Mara Case; 7 Permutation Models and Prescriptive Systems; 8 Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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
