Structure

Defining structure
Structural analysis (grew out of....to make sense of...) structuralism

-pay attention to the relationship between parts without focusing on the parts themselves

-not atomizing; draw attentions to parts of a song, people, etc.

-works off of idioms of linguistics (think of grammar), Noam Chomsky



Connections to material culture
Vladimir Propp and Russian folktales

Claude Levi-Strauss and masks

Folk Housing in Middle Virginia

Henry Glassie

1. paradigmatic (paradigm)

2. syntagmatic (syntax)

Notion of transformation... we can see this when there are at least two things to compare, usually there's some sort of non-random transformation

1. historical (over time)

2. reactionary (precedence, co-occurence)

Sometimes things happening at the same time have the same sort of synergy or relationship (two best friends and their houses)

Structural history

Things "performed" into existence through competence; language death

How has my understanding of structure changed since the beginning of class?
Formal analysis: takes apart characteristics, looks at the form (connect/compare this to Sabina Magliocco and Neo-Paganism)

Think about systems/parts over a biological reductionism (a la ethologists?)

All of culture is not reducible to nature

Folktropes
-isms

Grand theory

Social theory

Folklore as syntagmatic

Anthropology as paradigmatic