For instance, Gê tribes of the Amazon were found to divide their villages into two halves, which were rivals; however, the members of opposite halves married each other.
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In this essay, Edmund Leach sought an explanation of why human societies have solemn or sacred occasions, such as the Christian celebration of Christmas, followed in a short time by their opposite: a taboo-breaking and "profane" celebration such as New Year's.
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Jakobson had already persuaded a young social anthropologist — Claude Lévi-Strauss — to apply distinctive features theory to the study of kinship systems, in this way inaugurating 'structural anthropology'.