Sentence examples for elementary structures from inspiring English sources

These "positive marriage rules," which state that a spouse must be from a certain social category, were the titular "elementary structures" in The Elementary Structures of Kinship.

In The Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949), Lévi-Strauss Lévi-Straussnship turned to answer these questions.

The plan is conceived as a village, a series of small, elementary structures that are like children's blocks, connected by a sun-soaked glass atrium.

In The Elementary Structures of Kinship he argued that kinship systems had evolved as a mechanism for the exchange of women in marriage.

In 1949 Lévi-Strauss published his first major work, Les Structures élémentaires de la parenté (rev. ed., 1967; The Elementary Structures of Kinship).

Within sets of elementary structures (or positive rules), Lévi-Strauss made a further distinction between systems of "restricted exchange" and those of "generalized exchange".

In analyzing kinship terminology and kinship systems, the accomplishment that first brought him to preeminence in anthropology, Lévi-Strauss suggested that the elementary structure, or unit of kinship, on which all systems are built is a set of four types of organically linked relationships: brother/sister, husband/wife, father/son, and mother's brother/sister's son.

The beat pattern presented in the music functions thereby as an elementary structuring element.

The elementary structure of CH-IMI was maintained and the cyclization gain pyridine ring involved an amide moiety.

In this paper, the self-designed fluorometry system was established, whose elementary structure is shown in Fig. 1.

Specific process attributes are consulted for applying elementary structuring strategies, such as customer, order, product, task or process orientation.