Kinship theory after Lévi-Strauss’ Elementary Structures

Abstract

I will first add a comment to Steve Hugh-Jones’ exposition, saying that I was for three years a student of David Maybury-Lewis, in the United States, and I never agreed completely with his structural-functional view of dual organisations. But he was a very liberal and tolerant teacher, and in his seminars, always very elegantly allowed my excursus in Levi-Straussian theory. So I wish to associate myself to the homage SALSA paid to David Maybury-Lewis a few days ago. I will here try to examine...