Unlike the Minimalists, however, whose elementary structures tended to bore or mystify many viewers, the fascinating movements of Rickey's sculptures appealed to a wide audience, and he received commissions from all over the world to create public works.
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His " Elementary Structures of Kinship " takes this as a starting point and uses it to analyze kinship systems of increasing complexity found in so-called primitive societies ( that is, those not based on agriculture, class inequalities, and centralized government ).
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These were " The Family and Social Life of the Nambikwara Indians " ( " La vie familiale et sociale des indiens Nambikwara " ) and " The Elementary Structures of Kinship " ( " Les structures �l�mentaires de la parent?" ).
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When reviewing Paul Pagk's show in 1993 ( Artforum International ), art critic Donald Kuspit commented : " Paul Pagk's abstract paintings show that the renewal of painting depends upon the renewal of what is fundamental to it : primitive sensory experience articulated through texture and elementary structure.
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Elementary structures can operate based on two forms of exchange : restricted ( or direct ) exchange, a symmetric form of exchange between two groups ( also called moieties ) of wife-givers and wife-takers; in an initial restricted exchange FZ marries MB, with all children then being bilateral cross-cousins ( the daughter is both MBD and FZD ).
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Lacan's concept of the symbolic " owes much to a key event in the rise of structuralism . . . the publication of Claude L�vi-Strauss's " Elementary Structures of Kinship " in 1949 . . . . In many ways, the symbolic is for Lacan an equivalent to L�vi-Strauss's order of culture " : a language-mediated order of culture . " Man speaks, then, but it is because the symbol has made him man . . . superimposes the kingdom of culture on that of a nature ".
