Why Marry Her?: Society and Symbolic Structures

by Luc De Heusch

Book Overview

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. In his introduction Luc de Heusch, a distinguished Belgian anthropologist, recalls his first contact with colonial Africa in the Belgian Congo in 1953-4. In Part I, conscious of the difference between French anthropology and the British tradition, he pursues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521040728
• ISBN13: 9780521040723
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"