The Double Twist : : From Ethnography to Morphodynamics / / ed. by Pierre Maranda.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Anthropological Horizons
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Ethnography and the Canonical Formula
- 1. Hourglass Configurations
- 2. Analogy and the Canonical Formula of Mythic Transformations
- 3. Is the Canonic Formula Useful in Cultural Description?
- 4. Mapping Cultural Transformation through the Canonical Formula: The Pagan versus Christian Ontological Status of Women among the Lau People of Malaita, Solomon Islands
- Part Two: Analyses, Tests, and Contextualizations of the Canonical Formula
- 5. Hesiod, the Three Functions, and the Canonical Formula of Myth
- 6. Classical Myths and Transformation: Computer Observation of the Levi-Strauss Formula at Work
- 7. Ramistic Commonplaces, Levi-Straussian Mythlogic, and Binary Logic
- Part Three: The Logico-Mathematical Status of the Canonical Formula
- 8. The Set of Canonical Transformations Implied in the Canonical Formula for the Analysis of Myth
- 9. On Some Philosophical Dynamic and Connectionist Implications of the Canonical Formula of Myth Seen as Space Categorization
- 10. A Morphodynamical Schematization of the Canonical Formula for Myths
- Conclusion
- Backmatter