The double twist : from ethnography to morphodynamics / edited by Pierre Maranda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maranda, Pierre, 1930-2015.

Series:

Anthropological horizons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévi-Strauss, Claude.

Structural anthropology.

Mythology.

Physical Description:

vi, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2001]

Summary:

The essays in this intriguing collection all discuss Claude L?vi-Strauss' "Canonical Formula." The purpose of the work is to test the significance of the Formula, which is controversial and, for some, worthless.

Contents:

Introduction / Pierre Maranda

Hourglass 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0802035248 :

OCLC:

46703211