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In the Grand Style

The Elementary Structures of Kinship

(Les Structures Elémentaires de la Parente.) By Claude Lévi-Strauss. Revised edition translated from the French by James Harle Bell, John Richard von Sturmer and Rodney Needham. Pp. xiii + 541. (Eyre and Spottiswoode: London, February 1969.) 90s.

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TAMBIAH, S. In the Grand Style. Nature 223, 977–978 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223977a0

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