Claude Lévi-Strauss - Florida

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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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%
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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%
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