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Record 1 1986-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Demography
OBS

Two intermarrying groups exchange women as wives and thus constitute a self-sufficient unit. Lévi-Strauss has called this form "closed" or "restricted" exchange (échange restreint) (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Démographie
OBS

Expression introduite par C.Levi Strauss pour décrire un type de mariage en vigueur dans les sociétés régies par des structures élémentaires de parenté, le mariage, étant considéré comme un échange de femmes entre groupes. Il y a échange restreint lorsque la société globale comprend seulement deux groupes et que tout homme de l'un prend femme dans l'autre et vice versa (Le vocabulaire de l'ethnologie par Michel Panoff et Michel Perrin, Chargés de cours à l'Université de Paris-VII).

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