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Class 10 Notes

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Preliminary Class Business

Readings for the next classes

Readings from Structuralism:

Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics (1915)
Claude Lévi-Strauss

"The Structural Study of Myth" (1951)
The Savage Mind (1962) -- Part I, Chapters 1-2 (pp. 65-78), and Part II, Chapters 4-5 (pp. 111-127)

"The Science of the Concrete" (chap. 1 of The Savage Mind, in a different online version)
"The Logic of Totemic Classification" (chap. 2 of The Savage Mind)
Diagram of "the totemic operator" (from chap. 5, "Categories, Elements, Species, Numbers" of The Savage Mind, p. 152)

1. Semiology

2. The Arbitrary

Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics (1915)
Claude Lévi-Strauss,

"The Logic of Totemic Classification" (chap. 2 of The Savage Mind)
"The Structural Study of Myth" (1951)

3. The Binary

Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics (1915)
Claude Lévi-Strauss, "Categories, Elements, Species, Numbers" (chap. 5 of The Savage Mind)

Roland Barthes, S/Z book cover

4. Structure

Differentiation + Homology

Parole vs. Langue

Syntagm Paradigm

Diachrony Synchrony

"The Logic of Totemic Classification" (chap. 2 of The Savage Mind)
"The Structural Study of Myth" (1951)

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