The double twist
Subtitle: from ethnography to morphodynamics
By: edited by Pierre Maranda
Contributors: Maranda, Pierre
Series: Anthropological horizons
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Lévi-Strauss, Claude; Structural anthropology; Mythology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Pierre Maranda; title: Hourglass configurations / Claude Lévi-Strauss; title: Analogy and the canonical formula of mythic transformations / Luc Racine; title: Is the canonic formula useful in cultural description? / Eric Schwimmer; title: 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; title: Hesiod, the three functions, and the canonical formula of myth / Lucien Scubla; title: Classical myths and transformation : computer observation of the Lévi-Strauss formula at work / Sándor Darányi; title: Ramistic commonplaces, Lévi-Straussian mythologic, and binary logic / Christopher A. Gregory; title: The set of canonical transformations implied in the canonical formula for the analysis of myth / Alain Côté; title: On some philosophical dynamic and connectionist implications of the canonical formula of myth seen as space categorization / Andrew William Quinn; title: A morphodynamical schematization of the canonical formula for myths / Jean Petitot