著者

山村 満衛

出版者

東洋大学大学院

雑誌

東洋大学大学院紀要 = Bulletin of the Graduate School, Toyo University (ISSN:02890445)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.53, pp.47-55, 2016

著者

山村 満衛

出版者

東洋大学大学院

雑誌

東洋大学大学院紀要 = Bulletin of the Graduate School, Toyo University (ISSN:02890445)

巻号頁・発行日

no.54, pp.15-26, 2017

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Lévi-Strauss’s “Mythologiques”is exactly a consideration of “Primitive Thinking”.“Primitive Thinking”, or, “The Savage Mind” is the thought of people without writing.The thought of people without writing, has been interpreted in two different fashions.The first way was consider such thinking as of a somewhat coarser quality, and the example is the work of Malinowski. Malinowski was that the thought of people he was studying was,and generally speaking the thought of all the populations without writing which are the subject matter of anthropology was entirely, or is, determined by basic needs of life. If we know that a people, whoever, they are is determined by the bare necessities of living ―finding subsistence, satisfying the sexual drives, and so on ― the we can explain their social institution, their beliefs, their mythology, and the like. This very widespread conception generally goes under the name of functionalism.The other fashion is not so much that theirs is an inferior kind of thought, but a fundamentally different kind of thought. This approach is exemplified by the work of Lévy-Bruhl, who considered that the basic difference between “primitive thought” and modern thought is that the first is entirely determined by emotion and mystic representations. Whereas Malinowski’s is a utilitarian conception, the other is an emotional or affective conception;and what Lévi-Strauss tried to emphasize is that actually the thought of people without writing is, or can be in many instances, on the one hand, disinterested ―and, on the other hand, intellectual ― a difference in relation to Lévy-Bruhl. The theme of “Mythologiques”is to explain how peoples produce “Primitive Thinking” Based on the recognition that there is no society that does not cook food so that the world without words can not exist, we will develop discussions mainly on the subject of cooking. “The culinary triangle” summarizes propositions throughout “Mythologiques” It is pointed out that the conflict relationship of <nature/culture> arising from the difference between “RAW” and “ROTTEN” is deeply rooted in society, life, and religion. The principle is that it also regulates the internal order of the world.