Structure
A structure is a scheme with possible changes, not just a set of different elements, must also have the ability to generate other systems or new models but they are equivalent to the previous. There is, therefore, a dynamic, a character generator. Example: Impossible Love, Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, etc. A structure, therefore, is a system. What is important in a system are its elements, but the relations established between them: The items vary, but the system will remain the same, if not change the relations and functions.
fundamental features of the structure:
1-A structure is a set of related items so if you change just one element changes everything.
2-elements in a structure and system are not isolated, always be introduced into a larger system or higher (for example, the play "Romeo and Juliet" would be required to enter into legal philosophy and the role of families in the moment.) The relationship between systems is as follows: If you change the upper system, change the subsystems.
3-Prediction: if you change something, change something else in a particular way (X changes as Z).
4-If you make a model has to account for all phenomena that occur in it.
structure and myth
structures are models, not empirical facts and relationships. It is an ideal image of the functioning of all myths. The structure is a system, a set of diversity in which each element plays a role with respect to other elements. They are all interrelated.
can predict the reaction of the model knowing the relationships and the laws of the systems. This is legislation that reorganized the field. The system is a structure that is never identified with the elements that compose it, but the correlation between them and the correlation they occupy. It may happen that several elements and the rules and the system remain identical. A varies, has a history. It has stability, but this is not final. The system is never closed completely (eg, the languages \u200b\u200bof neighboring languages \u200b\u200bassume terminology).
Mythology
mythemes: The mytheme is the first part of a myth. Is the smallest unit of meaning (what language would be the word). The mytheme is repeated in many myths, but may have variations. Mytheme If some elements of change (in other myths which displayed this mytheme) other change in the chain. The mini mytheme is a complex system of elements included within the myth (which is a higher, wider).
Every myth can not be studied independently of the others. All myths are reduced to one (in America revolves around the issue of fire). All realities of myth have expanded the existing myths. The meaning is the set of this mythology, not a particular myth.
The myth transcends language
In language there are two levels: the phoneme (the unit Minimum nonsense) and phrases (meaningful unit). A mytheme (the smallest unit of a myth) holds many meaningful sentences is much richer. In a myth either appear much significance axis. The meaning is produced by the convergence of all these axes simultaneously and not by exclusion (as science does). Time ends myth.
disappears in mythic language the difference between signifier and signified, and so disappears the reference of the meanings. Thus the myth transcends all language is pure meaning, is not significant.
The myth has a surplus of meaning. Dice While we can not "translate" our language, which is an impoverished language.
Inertia of significant
myth is still telling the same way, although there are factors that no longer turn on, but in the past itself is understood. The elements of myth evolve by correlation: an element can assume the role of a second element, and the second element is weakened or take part of the role of a third element, etc.. The evolution of the elements is a stabilizing factor.
The changes are also mediated by rites (and others), if the ritual has not changed, for example, the myth will not change.
The myth does not reflect reality given the representation by torsion of the structure.
The Problem of history
abolishes the myth of history. Although it has the form of a story does not count as an event occurs and the consequences that flow from it. There are elements in the mythic story that dismantle the historical, its quality as an account of events. One of the basic procedures is repetition: the myth relies on cyclical events, so the singularity of the reported falls in value. There was an interest in common and repeatable when the cycle ends or resume. From the standpoint of history, the myth has the task of identifying the past and present, repeat the past.
abolishes the myth real history, as history discourse has been abolished. This is objected that some myths explain the origin of habits, customs, behaviors, rituals, etc, looking to collect historical events. Levi-Strauss argues that stories about derivatives, which are intended to include the perception of historical developments within the mythology.
If history denies denies the subject of history because the myth does not say who acts. The designations, including names, do not refer to specific individuals in history. Also, do not require authors mythemes, so the subject is not an explanatory factor of the story, and therefore expendable in anthropological science. The subject disappears.
Role: The subject is dissolved in roles, which are not identified with any personal identity.
In some societies, in which the myth has disappeared or has become a mere story can be said to have produced the collapse of the myth as semantic paradise.
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