Two works by Mauss in particular proved to have enduring relevance: Essay on the Gift, a seminal analysis of exchange and reciprocity, and his Huxley lecture on the notion of the person, the first comparative study of notions of person and selfhood cross-culturally.

In a seminal 1986 study, McMillan and Chavis identify four elements of " sense of community ": 1 ) membership, 2 ) influence, 3 ) integration and fulfillment of needs, and 4 ) shared emotional connection.

A seminal work in the study of proverbs is Archer Taylor's The Proverb ( 1931 ), later republished by Wolfgang Mieder with Taylor's Index included ( 1985 / 1934 ).

* Erving Goffman publishes his seminal study in sociology, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.

Durkheim's seminal monograph, Suicide ( 1897 ), a study of suicide rates amongst Catholic and Protestant populations, pioneered modern social research and served to distinguish social science from psychology and political philosophy.

The astronomers Thomas Digges and Thomas Harriot made important contributions ; William Gilbert published his seminal study of magnetism, De Magnete, in 1600.

Then, in 1991, Robert Gilman and Diane Gilman co-authored a seminal study called " Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities " for Gaia Trust.

After improving his setup he published his seminal study in 1913.

A famous example of an intellectual history of a non-canonical thinker is Carlo Ginzburg's study of a 16th-century Italian miller, Menocchio, in his seminal work The Cheese and the Worms.

The 1963 study is widely recognized as a seminal work in the foundation of sociolinguistics.

Karl Mannheim was a seminal figure in the study of generations.

* Ransom A. Myers ( b. Lula, Mississippi, 1952-d. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2007 ) was a renowned Canada-based marine biologist, conservationist and scholar at Dalhousie University who published a seminal study on overfishing.

In his seminal study ( 1982 ) on livable streets, that was conducted in neighbourhoods with a grid, Donald Appleyard showed that social networking and street playing degraded as traffic increased on a street.

Gustave Le Bon was a French social psychologist whose seminal study, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind ( 1896 ) led to the development of group psychology.

Bruce Trigger, a Canadian archaeologist who produced a seminal study of archaeological theory, identified there as being three main influences upon post-processualism.

Hans Delbrück's seminal study of the battle had a profound influence on subsequent German military theorists, in particular on Schlieffen.

In the 1930s and 1940s an African-American linguist named Lorenzo Dow Turner did a seminal study of the Gullah language based on field research in rural communities in coastal South Carolina and Georgia.

Starting in 1900, while a professor at the University of Chicago, Millikan, with the significant input of Fletcher, and after improving his setup, published his seminal study in 1913.

Computer-assisted language learning ( CALL ) is succinctly defined in a seminal work by Levy ( 1997: p. 1 ) as " the search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning ".

Although published in 1957, The Rise of the Novel is still considered by many contemporary literary scholars as the seminal work on the origins of the novel, and an important study of literary realism.

In a seminal 1990 study based on earlier work by Thulborn et al., Ogawa and colleagues scanned rodents in a strong magnetic field ( 7. 0 T ) MRI.

Bleuler successfully introduced the term schizophrenia to replace Kraepelin's term dementia praecox through his seminal study of 1911, Dementia Praecox, oder Gruppe der Schizophrenien.

Durkheim's seminal monograph, Suicide ( 1897 ), a case study of suicide rates amongst Catholic and Protestant populations, distinguished sociological analysis from psychology or philosophy.

From these two seminal Western texts, Auerbach builds the foundation for a unified theory of representation that spans the entire history of Western literature, including the Modernist novels being written at the time Auerbach began his study.

William Slater Calverley, vicar of St. Kentigerns ( 1888-97 ), referred to the phenomena in his seminal study, ‘ Early Sculptured, Crosses, Shrines and Monuments ’, with the following paragraph ;

Known as AppleNet, it was based on the seminal Xerox XNS protocol stack but running on a custom 1 Mbit / s coaxial cable system.

Gene Amdahl's seminal 1964 article on IBM System / 360 used 1K to mean 1024.

The early 19th-century editions of Encyclopædia Britannica included wikt: seminal # English | seminal research such as Thomas Young ( scientist ) | Thomas Young's article on Egypt, which included the translation of the Egyptian hieroglyphs | hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone ( pictured ).

The machine, having been inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England.

This and other data led Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge to publish the seminal paper on punctuated equilibrium in 1971.

As a consequence, Jung's seminal ideas on the anima and the animus, the role of archetypes and the collective unconscious directly influenced such films as 8½ ( 1963 ), Juliet of the Spirits ( 1965 ), Satyricon ( 1969 ), Casanova ( 1976 ), and City of Women ( 1980 ).

His anatomical reports, based mainly on dissection of monkeys and pigs, remained uncontested until 1543, when printed descriptions and illustrations of human dissections were published in the seminal work De humani corporis fabrica by Andreas Vesalius where Galen's physiological theory was accommodated to these new observations.

Constantin Stanislavski and Edward Gordon Craig — two of the 20th century's most influential theatre practitioners — collaborated on the Moscow Art Theatre's seminal production of 1911 – 12.

One of the most widespread is the international organization Theatresports, which was founded by Keith Johnstone, an English director who wrote what many consider to be the seminal work on the relationship between status, story telling and improvisational acting, Impro.

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

The band's fashion-sense has been seminal ; Simeon Lipman, head of pop culture at Christie's auction house, has commented that " Led Zeppelin have had a big influence on fashion because the whole aura surrounding them is so cool, and people want a piece of that ".

Flip would go on to be one of the comic's seminal characters.

Literate Programming by Donald Knuth is the seminal book on literate programming

Linguists Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle authored seminal texts on generative grammar and phonology.

In 1904, Weber began to publish some of his most seminal papers in this journal, notably his essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which became his most famous work and laid the foundations for his later research on the impact of cultures and religions on the development of economic systems.

Irmin Schmidt, founder of seminal German ' Krautrock ' group Can wrote an opera called Gormenghast, based on the novels ; it was first performed in Wuppertal, Germany, in November 1998.

His seminal paper on this model was published in 1961.

In the early-to mid-1900s, American mystic, theologian, and founder of the Association for Research and Enlightenment Edgar Cayce was a seminal influence on what later would be termed the New Age movement ; he was known in particular for the practice some refer to as channeling.