Book II

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-93
Author(s):  
Colleen Jaurretche
Keyword(s):  
Ernst Cassirer ◽  
Finnegans Wake ◽  
Giambattista Vico ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Tzvetan Todorov ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

This chapter examines the relation of ideas about magic to the conceptualization of language as prayer in the Wake. Ranging in reference from Claude Levi-Strauss, Marcel Mauss, Tzvetan Todorov, Giambattista Vico, and Eliphas Levi, the chapter shows that Joyce not only saw words and letters as magical and coterminous with prayer, but also as visual entities. It focuses on the role of exorcism, and draws correlations between the cartoon drawings in Finnegans Wake II.2 and images from the tradition of the grimoire. It also examines how the Wake touches on the work of Ernst Cassirer, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Ogden and Richards’s The Meaning of Meaning.

8. Myth and politics

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Ruling Class ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Ernst Cassirer ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Political Myth ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski ◽  
Physical Phenomena

‘Myth and politics’ examines the treatment of myth in the work of Bronislaw Malinowski, Georges Sorel, Ernst Cassirer, Georges Dumézil, and René Girard. For Malinowski, myth deals with social phenomena. In the case of physical phenomena, the beneficiary of myth is the individual. In the case of social phenomena, the beneficiary is society itself. For Sorel, myth is eternal, not merely primitive, and serves not to bolster society but to topple it. By ‘myth’ he means a guiding ideology, one that advocates a fight to the death with the ruling class. Cassirer came to focus on the modern political myth of Nazism and considered how political myths take and keep hold.

scholarly journals Lo mítico y su relación con lo fantástico en la obra de J. L. Borges

La Palabra ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Iván Tapia Saavedra
Keyword(s):  
Mircea Eliade ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Tzvetan Todorov ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

En el presente trabajo intentaré dar una lectura del cuento borgeano “Las Ruinas Circulares” a partir de los planteamientos teóricos de Víctor Ivanovici desarrollados sobre lo fantástico, particularmente desde el componente mítico que el autor propone. Con este objetivo, en un primer momento examinaré dos definiciones teóricas principales sobre esta categoría estética, vale decir, la de Tzvetan Todorov y la de Víctor Ivanovici. Posteriormente introduciré los elementos antropológicos que alimentan la propuesta ivanoviciana a través de autores como: Bronislaw Malinowski, Claude Levi–Strauss y Mircea Eliade. En un tercer momento contrastaré la definición teórica de Ivanovici, sustentado en los aportes antropológicos acerca del mito, con la lectura del cuento escogido, corroborando en él los elementos que propone el autor como esenciales para la categorización de lo fantástico. Palabras clave: Borges, Ivanovici, Malinowski, Levi–Strauss, Eliade, mito, cultura, fantástico.

Prologue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didier Fassin
Keyword(s):  
Legal Anthropology ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

In his 1926 essay, “Primitive Crime and Its Punishment,” often considered the foundational text of legal anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski recounts an episode that occurred during his fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands and profoundly influenced his views on law and order in “savage society,” as he calls it....

Introduction to Ethnography

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Kwame Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Research Tradition ◽  
Primary Qualities ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski ◽  
Oriented Research

This introductory chapter introduces ethnography as a distinct research and writing tradition. The author begins by historically contextualizing ethnography’s professionalization within the fields of anthropology and sociology. While highlighting the formidable influences of, for example, Bronislaw Malinowski and the Chicago school, the author complicates existing understandings by bringing significant, but less-recognized, influences and contributions to light. The chapter next outlines three principal research methods that most ethnographers utilize—namely, participant-observation, fieldnote writing, and ethnographic interviewing. The discussion then shifts from method to methodology to explain the primary qualities that separate ethnography from other forms of participant-observation-oriented research. This includes introducing a research disposition called ethnographic comportment, which serves as a standard for gauging ethnography throughout the remainder of the book. The author presents ethnographic comportment as reflecting both ethnographers’ awarenesses of and their accountabilities to the research tradition in which they participate.

L’hypothèse de Firth

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Béatrice Godart-Wendling
Keyword(s):  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Philosophical Investigations ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Mode D’Action ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

Résumé Le but de cet article est d’évaluer l’hypothèse de John Rupert Firth (1890–1960) énonçant que l’article de l’anthropologue Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942), “The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages” (1923), constituerait une des sources d’inspiration ayant conduit Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) à élaborer une nouvelle conception de la signification en termes d’‘usage’. S’appuyant sur certains passages des Philosophical Investigations (1953), Firth établit ainsi une filiation entre les deux grandes idées phares de Malinowski, à savoir l’importance de la notion de ‘contexte de situation’ et l’idée que le langage serait un ‘mode d’action’ et les principales thèses (la signification comme usage, l’acquisition du langage, le langage comme un ensemble de jeux) que développera Wittgenstein. L’examen du bien fondé de cette hypothèse conduira à préciser la synergie des idées qui eut lieu en matière de pragmatique dans l’Angleterre de la première moitié du XXe siècle.

The Kula: A Bronislaw Malinowski Centennial Exhibition.

Man ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 786
Author(s):  
B. A. L. Cranstone ◽  
William A. Shack
Keyword(s):  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Centennial Exhibition ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

scholarly journals Bronislaw Malinowski: Polsk-engelsk antropolog

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jørgen Leth
Keyword(s):  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

Om Malinowski -- fra Jørgen Leth, Mine Helte. Det uperfekte menneske / 4 (2015, 27-34). Optrykt med venlig tilladelse fra forfatter Jørgen Leth og forlagsredaktør ved Gyldendal Johannes Riis

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