structural anthropology

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a school of anthropology founded by Claude Lévi-Strauss and based loosely on the principles of structural linguistics.

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Nor do these studies address the structural and systematic issues that contribute to obesity, such as poverty and stress.
Why Your New Year’s Diet Will Fail|Carrie Arnold|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Common sense is not a just a normative judgment about wisdom, but a structural feature of any functioning organization.
Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But I jumped off the science track early, and took only one class in anthropology in college.
The Real-Life Raiders of the Lost Ark|Alex Belth|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Richard Kurin was a 19-year-old anthropology student in India when he experienced his material culture epiphany.
We All Have a Rosebud in Our Pasts|Sam Roberts|October 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Hobbes lacked the data of archaeology and anthropology to inform his theories about the dangerous nature of pre-state existence.
War! What Is It Good For? A Lot|Nick Romeo|August 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Some structural features not previously used were found to have taxonomic significance.
Genera and Subgenera of Chipmunks|John A. White
Massinger and Field accepted frankly the structural awkwardness of their plot as they had fashioned or found it.
The Fatal Dowry|Philip Massinger
The structural fault is less surprising when it is ascertained to be fundamentalinevitable in the theme.
The Fatal Dowry|Philip Massinger
Structural wrought iron has a tenacity of 20 to 22 tons per sq. in.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
Boulanger's ideas on philosophy, mythology, anthropology and history are of extraordinary interest today.
Baron d'Holbach|Max Pearson Cushing