Mythologies individuelles, mythologies numériques ?

On Reason , Mythologies and Natural Resource Conservation

In 1971, I spent five months in Ghana, West Africa, collecting data for an MSc thesis, "On the Ecology and Fishery of a Small West African Lagoon". I was puzzled at the time by the behavior of the fishermen who exploited the Sakumo lagoon, near Tema (Fig. 1). Based in a nearby village, they were part-timers or full-timers, but fished in either case rarely more than about 4 hours at a time, then...

Mythologies of Witchcraft in the Fifteenth Century

Return of the Jukes: eugenic mythologies and Internet evangelism.

The new mythologies and premature aging in the youth culture.

Comparative studies of aging men in a variety of preliterate traditional societies suggest that older men, across cultures, are relatively mild and uncompetitive, as compared to younger men from the same communities. Older men are more interested in receiving than in producing, more interested in communion than in agency; their sense of pleasure and security is based on food, religion, and the ...

4x Gamer as Myth: Understanding through Player Mythologies

In this paper, we shall argue that games, being textual systems, can be understood semiotically signs, or units, are being constantly renegotiated within the game due to their ergodicity. However, the mythologies outside of them remain, leading to a potential discrepancy between what is and what is understood. An understanding of player mythologies can, on one hand, help us formulate a better s...