Why Marry Her? - Society and Symbolic Structures

Klappentext This collection of essays on the themes of social organization! kinship and religion provides an excellent guide to French structuralist thought. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays on the themes of social organization, kinship and religion provides an excellent guide for English-speaking scholars to the understanding of French structuralist thought. Upon publication, this was the first time that Luc de Heusch's important book Pourquoi l'épouser? (Editions Gallimard, 1971) had appeared in English. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction: travel memories; Part I. Structure and Social Praxis: 1. A defence and illustration of the structures of kinship; 2. Social structure and praxis among the Lele of the Kasai; Postscript: horizontal and vertical exchanges; 3. The debt of the maternal uncle: contribution to the study of complex structures of kinship; Postscript: the Omaha system; 4. Structure and history: views on the Kachin; Part II. Religion: 5. Possession and shamanism; 6. The madness of the gods and the reason of men; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Luc De Heusch, Luc De Heusch
• Assisted by: Janet Lloyd (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2007
• EAN: 9780521040723
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04072-3
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social an
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology