Showing posts with label Levi Strauss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Levi Strauss. Show all posts

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Rubix cube and Levi Strauss

(image1;This is a famous puzzle"Rubix cube")


(image2; Claude Levi=strauss, anthropologist)





Whenever I listen the topics about Levi=strauss, Rubix cube remind me of structuralism. This toy has many things to do with mathematics " group theory". The arrangement of the elements always can be replaced the another finite arrangement. This is called "Permutation" Every times we transform arrangements, we can't change how to operate this puzzle.(we can only revolve just one third of the cubic puzzle around axis at any time,as you know.) This is "Structure" . Mathematical idea like this was applied for linguistic,or kinship. This is called "Structuralism". We can use different expressions by the language. But phonologically,we have to obey always the invariable elements (it is called "Phoneme"). Structuralist seeks for a invariable frame like these in the sensitivity.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Levi-Strauss "Structuralism is always misunderstood."

Structuralism , it is always misunderstood. Levi-strauss has died ,aged 100. How long life it was.
Most people can't understand his intellectual revolution in 20th century. He had destroyed the idea "improvement of humanity,or advanced western people"in the history.
After all , Levi-strauss has died ,but the essence of structuralism remains to be unknown still now.
And all explanation about structuralism on the news are wrong as I expected.(BBC mistakes too)
Transformation and differential relations forms Structure. and it is homological with incest taboo.
These are very important. Structuralism is not a machinery system itself at all. Or rather, it may be invariable method and frame work for making machine.