Discussion
Levi-Strauss has stated three exchanges. Which are they ?
(I) Exchange of women
(II) Exchange of words
(III) Exchange of commodities
(IV) Exchange of gift
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Answer: A
The three exchanges are I, II and III: women, words and commodities.
Claude Levi-Strauss argued that social life rests on communication through exchange at three levels: the exchange of women between groups through rules of marriage and kinship, the exchange of words (messages) in language, and the exchange of goods and services in the economy. All three obey similar structural rules of reciprocity.
Gift exchange was analysed by Marcel Mauss, whose work influenced Levi-Strauss, but it is not one of his three levels, so the codes including IV are wrong.
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