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The double twist : from ethnography to morphodynamics /

The essays in this intriguing collection all discuss Claude Levi-Strauss' "Canonical Formula," which he created in 1955 as a means of anthropological investigation. This apparently mathematical formula relates myths to cultural artifacts, and is especially applicable to the study of m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maranda, Pierre, 1930-2015
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001.
Colección:Anthropological horizons ; 20.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.