ISBN:
0802035248
,
9780802035240
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 316 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Saint-Lazare, Quebec Gibson Library Connections 2008 Canadian electronic library. Books collection Electronic document; Available by subscription via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Anthropological horizons
Parallel Title:
Print version Double twist
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
;
Structural anthropology
;
Mythology
;
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Abstract:
The essays in this intriguing collection all discuss Claude Lévi-Strauss' ""Canonical Formula."" The purpose of the work is to test the significance of the Formula, which is controversial and, for some, worthless
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / Pierre MarandaHourglass configurations / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Analogy and the canonical formula of mythic transformations / Luc Racine -- Is the canonic formula useful in cultural description? / Eric Schwimmer -- Mapping cultural transformation through the canonical formula : the pagan versus Christian ontological status of women among the Lau People of Malaita, Solomon Islands / Pierre Maranda -- Hesiod, the three functions, and the canonical formula of myth / Lucien Scubla -- Classical myths and transformation : computer observation of the Lévi-Strauss formula at work / Sándor Darányi -- Ramistic commonplaces, Lévi-Straussian mythologic, and binary logic / Christopher A. Gregory -- The set of canonical transformations implied in the canonical formula for the analysis of myth / Alain Côté -- On some philosophical dynamic and connectionist implications of the canonical formula of myth seen as space categorization / Andrew William Quinn -- A morphodynamical schematization of the canonical formula for myths / Jean Petitot.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Electronic document; Available by subscription via World Wide Web
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