Symbolism and classification

7 Abril 2022, 16:00 • Rita Sousa

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Review of classificatory perspectives of symbolism, from Durkheim and Mauss to the post-structuralists.

The evils of classification applied to symbolism.

C. Lévi-Strauss' La pensée sauvage. A reading of Lévi-Strauss' ideas in historical and philosophical context.

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6 Abril 2022, 16:00 • Rita Sousa

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A synthesis of C. Lévi-Strauss´epistemological perspectives. Time and structure.

Analysis of interviews to C. Lévi-Strauss

Religion and symbolism: totems

31 Março 2022, 16:00 • Rita Sousa

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Illustration of the consubstantiation problem: reading of the Bible and other documentation.

The notion of dual opposition, the Lévi-Straussean misreadings of phonology, and its implications on the analysis of symbolic thought.

How A.R. Radcliffe-Brown's "union of contraries" ( The comparative method in Social Anthropology) is reinterpreted as "correlation of opposites" in C. Lévi-Strauss. Le totémisme aujourd'hui.

The empiricist syndrome illustrated in L'evi-Strauss' "totemic illusion": clanic reciprocity as a function of dual symbolic thought in Le totémisme aujourd'hui and La pensée sauvage.

Religion and Symbolism: classificatory models

30 Março 2022, 16:00 • Rita Sousa

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Introduction to the life and work of C. Lévi-Strauss: Anthropologie structurale II: Le champ de l'anthropologie

The influences of E. Durkheim, L. Levy-Bruhl.

Anthropology and ideology: the role of C. Lévi-Strauss at the UNESCO.

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17 Março 2022, 16:00 • Rita Sousa

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Workshop, part 2

Content analysis of Dan Serber's book.

Aditional reading:

E.E: Evans Pritchard, The Nuer

D. Sperber, Le savoir des anthropologues

J. Bureau, Le verdict du Serpent. Mythes, contes et recits des Gamo d'Éthiopie

J. Abink, Review of Le verdict du Serpent. Mythes, contes et recits des Gamo d'Éthiopie