Hichem Karoui

(Les Structures élémentaires de la Parenté)

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

The fundamental characteristic of marriage as a form of exchange is seen particularly clearly in the case of dual organizations. This term defines a system in which the members of the community, whether it be a tribe or a village, are divided into two parts which maintain complex relationships [...]

Claude Lévi-Strauss

En 1952, l’UNESCO publiait une série de brochures consacrées au problème du racisme dans le monde. Parmi celles-ci, C. le Lévi-Strauss donnait avec “Race et Histoire” un court essai qui dépassait de beaucoup son sujet pour introduire à une réflexion nouvelle sur la culture occidentale, le sens de la civilisation, le caractère aléatoire [...]

Selected Essays by K. R. RADCLIFFE-BROWN

This is possibly the final volume of A. R. Radcliffe-Brown’s published and unpublished contributions to social science in general and social anthropology in particular. It presents, in Part I, Radcliffe-Brown’s major methodological papers in chronological order and follows, in Part II, with his last finished statement on the nature and [...]

A TEST CASE IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
RODNEY NEEDHAM
The University of Chicago Press
This is a methodological essay, but it is pragmatic, not an empirically empty disquisition on how things ought to be done. I have written it in the conviction that the elaboration of method is best done in the resolution of particular problems; so I have [...]

An Historical Sketch Of The Progress Of Opinion On The
Origin Of Species, Previously To The Publication Of The
First Edition Of This Work
I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately [...]