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İlginç bir kitap okuyorum: Culture in Mind – Cognition, Culture and the Problem of Meaning. Yazarı Bradd Shore. Şu anda Dreamtime Learning, Inside-Out: The Narrative of the Wawilak Sisters adlı dokuzuncu bölümü bitirdim; Avustralya yerlilerinden Murngin topluluğuyla ilişkili bir çalışma. Bazı yerler özellikle ilgimi çekti. Ufak notlar düşeceğim. I. “In the Wawilak story as in life, men never overcome their reliance on women to reproduce themselves. The narrative suggests that men must forever wrest their sons from their wives and complete their birth by forms of symbolic creation. Symbolic transformation upstages organic transformation but never really overcomes it. The very forms of men’s rituals call to mind physiological processes at the same moment as they seek to deny them. Male symbols of ritual potency are transformations of female symbols of fecundity. As such, they point to the centrality of women’s physiological processes at the same time as they attempt to cancel them” (...