This collection of essays on the themes of social organization,
kinship and religion provides an excellent guide for
English-speaking scholars to the understanding of French
structuralist thought. In his introduction Luc de Heusch, a
distinguished Belgian anthropologist, recalls his first contact
with colonial Africa in the Belgian Congo in 1953-4. In Part I,
conscious of the difference between French anthropology and the
British tradition, he pursues a friendly dialogue with Mary
Douglas, enters into a polemic with Rodney Needham concerning
kinship structures, and discusses structural change with Edmund
Leach. In Part II the author is concerned with the magico-religious
field and proposes an original theory of symbolic systems
elaborated round the trance. Upon publication, this was the first
time that Luc de Heusch's important book Pourquoi l'epouser?
(Editions Gallimard, 1971) had appeared in English. The theoretical
essays it contains were revised by the author and a further essay
was added, together with a new introduction and addenda in the form
of theoretical discussions of two of the illustrative case studies.
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