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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION AND CONTEXTUAL DEFINITION OF THE ARISTOCRACY -- Chapter 2 THE RELATIONSHIP OF CLASS AND ETHNICITY -- Chapter 3 THE REALIZATION OF EXPRESSION IN THE ETHNOGRAPHIC CONTEXT -- Chapter 4 THE ORGANIZATION OF URBAN LIVING -- Chapter 5 ECONOMY, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION -- Chapter 6 RELIGION -- Chapter 7 SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- Chapter 8 INTERNAL STRATIFICATION AND ORGANIZATION OF THE GROUP -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Glossaries -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The mexican stratification system Class Formation, Mobility, and the Changing Perspective -- Chapter 1 A combined structural and expressive approach to the study of social stratification -- Chapter 2 Córdoba and its environs. Historical, Demographic, and Geographic Considerations -- Chapter 3 The superordinate sector: The Ruling, Political, and Social Classes -- Chapter 4 The middle stratum: The Middle and Lower Middle Classes and the Working Class -- Chapter 5 The dispossessed: Rural Lumpen, Subsistence Peasants, and the Indian-Mestizo Dichotomy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

It is clear that Lévi‐Strauss combines in his writings, and often inextricably, the roles of anthropologist (read scientist) and philosopher (read ideologist). This rather unusual combination of anthropological and philosophical dimensions of Lévi‐Strauss's thought is the result of two tendencies that often seem to be pulling in different directions: his scientific conception of socio‐cultural phenomena (or the delineation of a scientific method for harnessing human behavior under the rubric of sociological laws), on the one hand, and his conception of what society should be (or the ideological statement of what constitutes a "good sociological life"), on the other. In order to understand the nature of structuralism and Lévi‐Strauss's contributions to anthropological theory and practice, these two aspects of his thought must be clearly distinguished. This is what I hope to accomplish in this article.