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Ethnology and Prague Structuralism: Petr G. Bogatyrev

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2013

Abstract

The article is aiming to shatter traditional view on Petr G. Bogatyrev's legacy as an "typical" exponent of the Linguistzic Circle of Prague.

There are two reasons motivating the author 's doubt in this sense : firstly, Bogatyrev's conceptual base is - explicitely - derived from "Gestaltpsychology", repeatedfly refused by Jan Mukařovský whose doctrine represents in author's standpoint "typical", genuine expression of Prague structuralism, and (secondly) phenomenological typology of functions serving as a "tercium comparationis" proves a low-level conceptual elaboratedness of Bogatyrev's famous function of the "structures of functions".