Claude Lévi-Strauss has used the term "general exchange" to refer to a cycle of marital exchange in which, among Lineages A, B, and C, __________

A. men of each lineage always marry within their lineage
B. men of Lineages A and B always marry women from Lineage C
C. Lineage B always gives women to Lineage A but takes its wives from Lineage C
D. men of each lineage always marry outside of their lineage


Answer: C

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