Claude Lévi-Strauss quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   Why is gift exchange critical in Lévi-Strauss's kinship theory?

   Answer: Establishing bonds

   Why: Lévi-Strauss borrowed Mauss's rule that a gift demands a return: a marriage is less a couple than an alliance binding two separate groups.

2. 2 Medium

   Which book by Lévi-Strauss explores the complex logical patterns of indigenous thought?

   Answer: The Savage Mind

   Why: The French sauvage means untamed rather than primitive, which is why a 2021 retranslation renamed the book Wild Thought.

3. 3 Hard

   Which antinomy did Lévi-Strauss treat as fundamental in kinship?

   Answer: Nature versus culture

   Why: He located it in the incest ban, the one rule where nature passes into culture; the charge that structuralism cannot handle history came from Sartre.

4. 4 Easy

   How many volumes comprise the Mythologiques series by Lévi-Strauss?

   Answer: Four

   Why: It opens on a single Bororo myth from central Brazil and ends among North American peoples west of the Rockies.

5. 5 Medium

   Why did Lévi-Strauss describe the mind as a bricoleur?

   Answer: Making do

   Why: The bricoleur works with whatever is already in the box, unlike the engineer who specifies the exact part first.

6. 6 Hard

   In which country was Claude Lévi-Strauss born in 1908?

   Answer: Belgium

   Why: His French parents were in Brussels for his father's work, and the family returned to Paris while he was still an infant.