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Morphodynamics and Agency: From Post-Structuralism to Neo-Structuralism

Albert Doja

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Fundamentally, if the majority of his commentators retained from the structural analysis of myth only the capacity of disclosing stable, common and probably universal frameworks, Levi-Strauss preferred seeking rules that will ideally make it possible to generate, starting from an unspecified myth of reference, the finite or infinite whole of all other real or possible myths. In agreement with this epistemological insight, I argue that we may establish a more sophisticated approach in today anthropology by following structural procedures of transformational analysis and formalization. This means that we may be correct in asserting that we can deduce in theory from an empirical situation of identity construction and social change or ethnic identification and social conflict, transcribed in canonical way, the eventually hidden reality of an external boundary, borderland existence, border-crossing movement or, namely, ideological agency. This reality will necessarily be organized around a specific identity element or social hierarchy associated with the value of one identity moment, human agency and social action but having inverse propositional characteristics of the same moment, course of action and agency. All the same the other way around: new identity constructions and social changes can be anticipated as a result of the mediating logical operation of a boundary condition, and we can be able to set off in their search and their appreciation. An illustrative and working example will be forwarded to account for the raw madness and cooked criminality of the unspeakable political effectiveness of rapes as an instrument of ethnic cleansing during ethnic conflicts in former Yugoslavia.
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Albert Doja. Morphodynamics and Agency: From Post-Structuralism to Neo-Structuralism. Invited Presidential Session "Lévi-Strauss, Europe and the Ends of Anthropology", American Anthropological Association 108th Annual Meeting, Dec 2009, Philadelphia, PA, United States. pp.169-170. ⟨halshs-00461344⟩
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