Computational challenges to test and revitalize Claude Lévi-Strauss transformational methodology

The ambition and proposal for data modeling of myths presented in this paper is to link contemporary technical affordances to some canonical projects developed in structural anthropology. To articulate the theoretical promise and innovation of this proposal, we present a discrete-event system specif...

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Published in:	Big data & society 2021-07, Vol.8 (2), p.205395172110378
Main Authors:	Doja, Albert, Capocchi, Laurent, Santucci, Jean-François
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Anthropology Computer Science Computer software Discrete event systems Formalism History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences Humanities and Social Sciences Information Theory Library and information sciences Mathematics Methodology Modeling and Simulation Mythology Regeneration Social Anthropology and ethnology Specifications Structural analysis Visualization
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Summary:	The ambition and proposal for data modeling of myths presented in this paper is to link contemporary technical affordances to some canonical projects developed in structural anthropology. To articulate the theoretical promise and innovation of this proposal, we present a discrete-event system specification modeling and simulation approach in order to perform a generative analysis and a dynamic visualization of selected narratives, aimed at validating and revitalizing the transformational and morphodynamic theory and methodology proposed by Claude Lévi-Strauss in his structural analysis of myth. After an analysis of Lévi-Strauss’s transformational methodology, we describe in detail how discrete-event system specification models are implemented and developed in the framework of a DEVSimPy software environment. The validation of the method involves a discrete-event system specification simulation based on the extension of discrete-event system specification models dedicated to provide a dynamic Google Earth visualization of the selected myth. Future work around the discrete-event system specification formalism in anthropology is described as well as future applications regarding the impact of computational models (discrete-event system specification formalism, Bayesian inferences, and object-oriented features) to new contemporary anthropological domains.
ISSN:	2053-9517 2053-9517