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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Levi-Strauss, Claude

Titel

THE VIEW FROM AFAR

Erscheinungsjahr

1985

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Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• (A continuation of IRPS No. 29/85c00528) PART IV - BELIEFS, MYTHS, AND RITES - includes (12) Cosmopolitanism and Schizophrenia -- (L'Autre et l'ailleurs. Hommage a Roger Bastide, presente par Jean Poirier et Francois Raveau [The Other and Elsewhere: Homage to Roger Bastide, Presented by Jean Poirier and Francois Raveau], Paris: Berer-Levrault, 1976) -- demonstrates the usefulness of analogy for understanding mental illness, contrasting psychiatric ideas about the etiology of schizophrenia with those appearing in myths of the North American Chinook; (13) Myth and Forgetfulness -- (Langue, discours, societe. Pour Emile Benveniste [Language, Discourse, Society: For Emile Benveniste], Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1975, 294-300) -- shows how ancient Greek myths can help to develop hypotheses inspired by Amerindian myths, regardless of the lack of geographic or historical connection between the cultures; (14) Pythagoras in America -- (see IRPS No. 10/81c00089); (15) An Anatomical Foreshadowing of Twinship -- (Systemes de Signes. Textes reunis en hommage a Germaine Dieterlen [Systems of Signs: Texts Gathered in Homage to Germaine Dieterlen], Paris: Hermann, 1978, 369-376) -- examines North & South American beliefs about the connection of twins, the harelipped, & those born feet first to meteorological disorders; (16) A Small Mythico-Literary Puzzle -- (Le Temps de la reflexion, 1980, 133-141) -- analyzes the poem Les Colchiques (The Autumn Crocuses) by Guillaume Appolinaire, showing that the phrase likening crocuses to "mothers/daughters of their daughters" is based on a botanical peculiarity & religious & literary associations; (17) From Chretien de Troyes to Richard Wagner -- speculates on the origins & significance of the myth of the Holy Grail, tracing the progress from the earliest known version of the story (by the twelfth-century de Troyes) through Wagner's Parsifal; & (18) A Note on the Tetralogy -- (Chpts 17 & 18 originally published in Parsifal, Programmhefte der Bayreuther Festspiele [Parsifal: Program Books of the Bayreuth Festivals], 1975, 1-9, 60-67) attempts to illustrate how Western music took over the functions of myth in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, through analysis of the lyrics of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelungen) tetralogy. PART V - CONSTRAINT AND FREEDOM - presents (19) A Meditative Painter -- which explores the significance of the approach of painter Max Ernst; (20) To a Young Painter -- (Anita Albus. Aquarelle 1970 bis 1980. Katalog zur Ausstellung in der Stuck-Villa Munchen [Anita Albus: Water Colors, 1970 to 1980. Catalog of the Exhibit in Munich's Stuck-Villa], Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1980) explores influences on the art of German painter Anita Albus; (21) New York in 1941 -- (Paris-New York, Paris: Centre National d'Art et de Culture, Georges-Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne, 1977) -- records the author's impressions of New York City life; (22) A Belated Word about the Creative Child -- (La Nouvelle Revue des Deux Mondes, 1975, Jan, 10-19) comments on the "School and the Creative Child" panel discussion at the 1974 centennial celebration of L'Ecole Alsacienne, arguing that the emergence problem of the creative child is due to changes in the social, cultural, & economic environment of education. The value of the discipline of schooling is championed against the claims of those who value innovation for its own sake & hope to liberate children's creativity by leaving them to their own devices; & (23) Reflections on Liberty -- (see SA 26:4/78J4636). 1 Table, 6 Figures, 265 References.