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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