Complex sentence: Kinship is therefore not an isolated domain but linked to economic and political structures; marriage exchanges need to be analysed within their wider economic and political context rather than be analysed in isolation as Levi-Strauss tended to do.
Split into simpler sentences: Kinship is therefore not an isolated domain but linked to economic and political structures. Marriage exchanges need to be analysed within their wider economic and political context rather than in isolation, as Levi-Strauss tended to do.