regarded as one of the most important concepts in structuralism, the theory of binary opposition has long been used as a yardstick against which structuralists measure their researches in the wide realms of linguistics, narratives, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, and psychology. employing binary opposition in structural anthropology, lévi-strauss aimed to discover human’s cognitive ...

Why does the festival of Christmas appear to be expanding worldwide while other festivals decline? Why do people emphasize their local rituals, given this is a global festival? Is this a religious festival whose values have been destroyed by materialism? What is the relationship between this family celebratory meal and the divine family to which it pays obeisance? These seemed to be questions t...

We introduce a special issue of Ethos devoted to the work of Jerome Bruner and his careerlong attempts to seek innovative ways to foster a dialogue between psychology and anthropology. The articles in this special issue situate Bruner's meaning-centered approach to psychology and his groundbreaking work on narrative in the broader context of the developmental trajectory of both of fields of inq...

It has long been suspected that stories drawn from the same cultural setting share important narrative structure. One example of such structure, first identified by Vladimir Propp in 1928, is the morphology of a set of stories, which describes the set of plot elements and their allowed sequences. Until now, the extraction of morphologies has remained a manual task, the purview of anthropologica...

Continuing arguments presented [1] or announced [2, 3] here, zerodivisor (ZD) foundations for scale-free networks (evinced, in particular, in the “fractality” of the Internet) are decentralized. Spandrels, quartets of ZD-free or “hidden” box-kite-like structures (HBKs) in the 2N+1ions, are “exploded” from (and uniquely linked to) each standard boxkite in the 2N-ions, N ¥ 4. Any HBK houses, in a...

The members of Lissodendoryx Topsent, 1892a are recognized by a spicule combination of ectosomal tylotes or strongyles, isodictyal reticulate architecture, arcuate isochelae and sigmas (Hofman & Van Soest 1995; Van Soest 2002). Five subgenera of Lissodendoryx, are recognized (Van Soest 2002): Lissodendoryx (Acanthodoryx) Lévi, 1961, L. (Anomodoryx) Burton, 1934, L. (Ectyodoryx) Lundbeck, 1909, ...