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** Patterns | ** Patterns | ||
* Who is communicating? | |||
== L-S's image of the computer == | == L-S's image of the computer == | ||
* Confuses cybernetics with computation | * Confuses cybernetics with computation | ||
* Actually very interested in ''databases'' | * Actually very interested in ''databases'' | ||
Revision as of 23:54, 16 September 2007
ANTH 245: Lecture for SEPT 17 2007
Recap
Rappaport's second cybernetic loop
- Sacred propositions -> pragramatic proposition -> the System --> Ritual experience --> Sacred propositions
- Actually similar to this:
- EXPERIENCE --> RELIGION --> POLITICS --> ECONOMICS --> EXPERIENCE
Segue
Cognitive models
Actually looking at a pattern (myth)
Levi-Strauss
Background
Essay 1 (Structuralism)
Essay 2 (Mythology)
Themes
Myth as signal and message
- Message as ontology
- Code as method of interpretation
- Myth itself is a vehicle for ontology
The function of myth
- Compare to Rappaport
- L-S focuses on content, Rappaport sacred context
- L-S helps explain myths credibility -- it overcomes contradictions
- Compare to Bateson
- Patterns
- Who is communicating?
L-S's image of the computer
- Confuses cybernetics with computation
- Actually very interested in databases
