Claude Lévi-Strauss’s theories have been fundamental to the renewal of modern anthropology, in particular the study of kinship systems, totemism, classification, and mythology. Throughout his works, he has sought to understand the functioning of so-called “primitive” modes of thought. In opposition to the theories formulated by influential predecessors such as Lucien LévyBruhl, he has revealed ...

Hard optimization problems that cannot be solved within reasonable time by standard, mathematical, deterministic methods are of great practical interest. Metaheuristics inspired by nature were recently successfully used for such problems. These metaheuristics are based on random Monte-Carlo search guided by simulation of some nature intelligence, especially evolution and swarm intelligence. One...

In a 1983 lecture at the Sorbonne entitled “History and Ethnology,” Claude LéviStrauss offered an example of the connection between these two disciplines based on his work on “house-based societies,” in which he compared eleventh-century Japan, the Fiji Islands, and medieval Europe.1 In his earlier work, Lévi-Strauss categorized kinship systems by using combinations of binary opposites, such as...

Recently, probability models with thicker or thinner tails have gained more importance among statisticians and physicists because of their vast applications in random walks, Lévi flights, financial modeling, etc. In this connection, we introduce here a new family of generalized probability distributions associated with the Mittag–Leffler function. This family gives an extension to the generaliz...

While formalism and structuralism became key concepts in linguistics, literary criticism, and the social sciences during the first half of the twentieth century, they appeared in folklore research only in the late fifties and early sixties, as a direct result of the publication of Claude Lévi-Strauss' "The Structural Study of Myth" ( Journal of American Folklore, 68 [1955], 428-444) and the 195...

Este artigo trata da trajetória política de Claude Lévi-Strauss, notadamente do período que se estende 1924, ano sua adesão às ideias socialistas, a 1935, quando ele chegou ao Brasil e praticamente encerrou seu engajamento político. Apoiando-se em alguns textos publicou na Revista L’Étudiant socialiste, entrevista concedida Didier Eribon obra autobiográfica Tristes tropiques, bem como nos debat...

Myth as a cultural phenomenon, reflects period of human civilization development and change track. Under the influence Marxist theory psychoanalysis in his early years, Lévi-Strauss believed that study myth not only extended space main line supplemented history which emphasized dimension time, but also explored significance “naturalizing man” studies. This paper discusses Lévi- Strauss’s views ...

The ambition and proposal for data modeling of myths presented in this paper is to link contemporary technical affordances some canonical projects developed structural anthropology. To articulate the theoretical promise innovation proposal, we present a discrete-event system specification simulation approach order perform generative analysis dynamic visualization selected narratives, aimed at v...