| Topics: Overview and critique of Lévi-Strauss's structuralist
methods for the analysis of narrative; controversy over mind (cognition,
schemata) vs body (agency, materiality); symbolism in narrative: elementary
semiotics, distinction between paradigmatic and syntagmatic dimensions
of structures, different theories of structure
T Ortner, Sherry
1990 Patterns of History: Cultural Schemas in the Foundings of Sherpa
Religious Institutions. Chap. 3 in Culture Through Time.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
1963 (1955) The Structural Study of Myth. In Structural Anthropology
pp. 206-231. New York: Basic Books. [for those unfamiliar with his methods;
needed as the basis of all subsequent critiques]
Gillespie, Susan D.
n.d. Structure and Meaning in Myth. ms. [provides a quick overview
of a lot of material: structural linguistics, semiotics, critiques of Lévi-Strauss's
methods, different approaches to structure]
T Valeri, Valerio
1990 Constitutive History: Genealogy and Narrative in the Legitimation
of Hawaiian Kingship. Chap. 6 in Culture Through Time
Parmentier, Richard J.
1987 Diagrammatic Icons and Historical Processes, Chap. 3; Models of
Transformation of Belauan Polity, Chap. 4 (SKIM) of The Sacred Remains:
Myth, History, and Polity in Belau. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press. (pp. 107-196) |