Claude Lévi-Strauss - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This anthropologist argued that the patriarchal “exchange of women” via exogamy was as vital to developing symbolic thought as exchanging signs via communication. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this anthropologist who distinguished between primitive and civilized cultures in The Savage Mind. This French anthropologist wrote Tristes Tropiques (“treest tro-PEEK”) and Mythologiques.

ANSWER: Claude Lévi-Strauss

[10m] Lévi-Strauss outlined the “exchange of women” as part of his alliance theory, which he developed in a book on this concept. David Schneider outlined real and fictive forms of this concept in a book on its “American” form.

ANSWER: kinship

[10h] This anthropologist pulled from Lévi-Strauss’s kinship theories, including the “exchange of women,” in “The Traffic in Women,” which outlines the political economy of sex. This anthropologist also wrote “Thinking Sex.”

ANSWER: Gayle Rubin [or Gayle S. Rubin]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	67%	50%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	10.00	78%	22%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%

Data


Florida A	Valencia A	10	0	0	10
UCF B	Florida State A	0	0	0	0
Florida B	UCF C	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Carnegie Mellon A	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	Carnegie Mellon B	0	0	0	0
Case Western B	Kenyon	0	0	0	0
Ohio State B	Michigan D	10	0	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan State	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Case Western A	10	0	0	10
Liberty A	Duke	10	0	0	10
South Carolina	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
William & Mary	UNC B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	UNC C	10	10	0	20
Virginia A	UNC D	10	10	0	20
Liberty C	Wake Forest	0	0	0	0
Chicago B	Illinois B	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	Chicago D	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Illinois C	10	0	0	10
Indiana B	WashU A	10	0	0	10
Indiana A	WashU B	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	Carleton	10	0	0	10
Wisconsin A	Wisconsin B	10	0	0	10
Minnesota B	Winona State	10	0	0	10
Brandeis A	BU	10	0	0	10
Harvard A	Brandeis B	10	10	0	20
Harvard B	Dartmouth A	0	0	0	0
Brown A	Tufts A	10	0	0	10
MIT A	UMass Boston	10	10	0	20
Georgetown A	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame B	Notre Dame C	10	0	0	10
Purdue	Iowa	10	0	0	10
Stanford B	Northwestern A	10	10	0	20
Alberta	UW B	10	10	0	20
UW A	UBC	10	0	0	10
ASU	Texas B	10	0	0	10
Texas A	TAMU	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Louisville A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Vanderbilt A	0	0	0	0
Bruin A	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	NYU A	10	0	0	10
George Washington A	Haverford B	0	0	0	0
John Jay College	Columbia C	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
NYU B	George Washington B	10	0	0	10
Penn B	Haverford A	0	0	0	0
Rutgers A	Penn A	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Vassar A	10	0	0	10
Yale A	Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Binghamton A	Cornell C	0	0	0	0
RIT A	Cornell D	10	0	0	10
ESF A	RIT B	0	0	0	0