Sentence examples for the elementary structure from inspiring English sources

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

Staining of the actin cytoskeleton revealed that the actin filaments are aligned to the gold pads of the elementary structure.

After the transition, the elongation of the elementary structure is possible only along a single axis which is determined by the symmetry (along the arrows in Figure 6a).

The elementary structure of the Z-disk is that of a tetragonal array of antiparallel actin filaments spaced 240 Å apart and crosslinked by successive layers of filaments at intervals of ≈190 Å rotated by 90° between each layer along the myofibril axis (Goldstein et al., 1979).

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.

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).

"The Elementary Structures of Kinship" proved too dry, written too much for specialists, but "The Raw and the Cooked" and "From Honey to Ashes," though far less poetic than "Tristes Tropiques," elaborated on many of the insights present there.

After the War he served for three years as French cultural attaché in New York, while continuing work on a monumental study of marriage systems, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, which was eventually published in 1949.