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== Cognitive models == | == Cognitive models == | ||
== Actually looking at a pattern (myth) == | == Actually looking at a pattern (myth) == | ||
= Levi-Strauss = | |||
== Background == | |||
== Essay 1 (Structuralism) == | |||
== Essay 2 (Mythology) == | |||
= Themes = | = Themes = | ||
Revision as of 17:42, 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
L-S's image of the computer
- Confuses cybernetics with computation
- Actually very interested in databases
