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Oct 29, 2026
THEORY-1164: Propp proposes, from his analysis of Afanasyev's tales 50–151, that the Russian wondertale is built from 31 character functions, each defined by its consequence for the action, occurring in one order and falling to seven roles, so that wondertales share one composition and differ in who performs the functions and how
myth-and-folklore
social-science
compositionality
Oct 16, 2026
THEORY-432: In Lévi-Straussian analysis of myth the group of transformations is not given by the material: which variants count as transforms of which, and by what operation, is cut by the analyst from a continuum, unlike transformations that develop an initial form by a rule, and the computational encodings of the method confirm this by taking the analyst's table of oppositions as input
myth-and-folklore
social-science
Oct 09, 2026
LIT-775: Structural Anthropology
myth-and-folklore
social-science
linguistics
Oct 09, 2026
LIT-804: Computational challenges to test and revitalize Claude Lévi-Strauss transformational methodology
myth-and-folklore
social-science
Oct 09, 2026
LIT-807: A Discrete-Event Simulation of Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Structural Analysis of Myths Based on Symmetry and Double Twist Transformations
myth-and-folklore
social-science
Oct 09, 2026
LIT-822: Transformation transformed
myth-and-folklore
social-science
philosophy-of-science
Oct 09, 2026
LIT-828: Морфология сказки
myth-and-folklore
social-science
compositionality
Oct 09, 2026
LIT-830: Morphology of the Folktale
myth-and-folklore
social-science
compositionality
Oct 09, 2026
THEORY-167: The Russian wondertale is built from a small fixed set of character functions in a fixed order, so that all wondertales share one composition and differ in who performs the functions and how
myth-and-folklore
social-science
compositionality