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Claude Lévi-Strauss was one of the 20th century's great thinkers. In Structural Anthropology, he theorizes that culture is a system of symbolic communication that, like phonemic differences in language, owes its meaning to structure. Borrowing heavily from contemporary linguistics, his theory was a major departure from earlier "functionalist" theories and led to critical insights into formative social phenomena. What role does the incest taboo play in his theory?