Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3833016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriella Eichinger |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferro-Luzzi |
| SIGNATURE | FERRO-LUZZI G E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Glimpses of the Indian Village in Anthropology and Literature
A Response to Naithani's Review
The Taste of Laughter: Aspects of Tamil Humor
The Polythetic Network of Tamil Folk Stories
This paper examines a number of Tamil folk stories gathered and published by Tamil writers, and demonstrates that a family resemblance (in Wittgenstein's sense) exists among them. Their motifs constitute a polythetic, or multiply arranged, network. The polythetic notion acknowledges the fact that we have to come to terms with complexity and probability rather than postulate essences and constants that are, at best, unfalsifiable. Since any motif …
Word, Sound, Image: The Life of the Tamil Text
Lesser Known Faiths
Language, Thought, and Tamil Verbal Humor
On Evolutionary Epistemology
Mandalas and Mesoamerican Pecked Circles [and Comments and Reply]
The notion of the archetype of the Self in Jungian psychology and its expression in mandala or sacred-circle symbolism is reviewed. The role of mandalas in Hinduism and Buddhism is then briefly discussed, with special emphasis on Vajrayana Buddhism. The universality of the mandala and its function of aiding the integration of the individual into the Absolute is stressed by also examining the sacred rites of the Oglala Sioux. Then it is shown how …
On Paradox and Myth
The Female Lingam: Interchangeable Symbols and Paradoxical Associations of Hindu Gods and Goddesses [and Comments and Reply]
The main purpose of the paper is to refute the rigid psychoanalytic determinism which holds that we cannot help attributing an exclusively male or female meaning to certain sexual symbols. Simultaneously it attempts to show that symbols are not as context-bound as structuralists are inclined to think, since the reversals of meanings discussed mostly refer to the individual symbol without affecting the context. A series of iconographic symbols and…
Questions in the Sacred-Cow Controversy [and Comments and Reply]
Contrary to Marvin Harris's hypothesis, desiccation and population increase in India following 1000 B.C. are highly unlikely to have been the origin of the Hindu ban on cow slaughter and beef eating. In many places in present-day India,"wild" and stray cattle are serious problem to farmers. The sacred-cow concept contributes to a significant waste of beef and inefficiency in cattle breeding. Homes for old cows are basically religious institutions…
More on Salt Taboos
Ritual as Language: The Case of South Indian Food Offerings
The paper points out a series of analogies between South Indian food offerings and a verbal language. This is in accordance with numerous other studies applying linguistic models to nonlinguistic fields and contrary to Sperber's view, which denies the usefulness of such an approach. The analogies with language appear at different levels. Offerings may function as names of deities and ceremonies or may stress oppositions between pairs of deities a…
Questions in the Sacred-Cow Controversy [and Comments and Reply]
Contrary to Marvin Harris's hypothesis, desiccation and population increase in India following 1000 B.C. are highly unlikely to have been the origin of the Hindu ban on cow slaughter and beef eating. In many places in present-day India,"wild" and stray cattle are serious problem to farmers. The sacred-cow concept contributes to a significant waste of beef and inefficiency in cattle breeding. Homes for old cows are basically religious institutions…
Ritual as Language: The Case of South Indian Food Offerings
The paper points out a series of analogies between South Indian food offerings and a verbal language. This is in accordance with numerous other studies applying linguistic models to nonlinguistic fields and contrary to Sperber's view, which denies the usefulness of such an approach. The analogies with language appear at different levels. Offerings may function as names of deities and ceremonies or may stress oppositions between pairs of deities a…
Mandalas and Mesoamerican Pecked Circles [and Comments and Reply]
The notion of the archetype of the Self in Jungian psychology and its expression in mandala or sacred-circle symbolism is reviewed. The role of mandalas in Hinduism and Buddhism is then briefly discussed, with special emphasis on Vajrayana Buddhism. The universality of the mandala and its function of aiding the integration of the individual into the Absolute is stressed by also examining the sacred rites of the Oglala Sioux. Then it is shown how …
The Female Lingam: Interchangeable Symbols and Paradoxical Associations of Hindu Gods and Goddesses [and Comments and Reply]
The main purpose of the paper is to refute the rigid psychoanalytic determinism which holds that we cannot help attributing an exclusively male or female meaning to certain sexual symbols. Simultaneously it attempts to show that symbols are not as context-bound as structuralists are inclined to think, since the reversals of meanings discussed mostly refer to the individual symbol without affecting the context. A series of iconographic symbols and…
Language, Thought, and Tamil Verbal Humor
Ritual as Language: The Case of South Indian Food Offerings
The paper points out a series of analogies between South Indian food offerings and a verbal language. This is in accordance with numerous other studies applying linguistic models to nonlinguistic fields and contrary to Sperber's view, which denies the usefulness of such an approach. The analogies with language appear at different levels. Offerings may function as names of deities and ceremonies or may stress oppositions between pairs of deities a…
More on Salt Taboos
Questions in the Sacred-Cow Controversy [and Comments and Reply]
Contrary to Marvin Harris's hypothesis, desiccation and population increase in India following 1000 B.C. are highly unlikely to have been the origin of the Hindu ban on cow slaughter and beef eating. In many places in present-day India,"wild" and stray cattle are serious problem to farmers. The sacred-cow concept contributes to a significant waste of beef and inefficiency in cattle breeding. Homes for old cows are basically religious institutions…
The Female Lingam: Interchangeable Symbols and Paradoxical Associations of Hindu Gods and Goddesses [and Comments and Reply]
The main purpose of the paper is to refute the rigid psychoanalytic determinism which holds that we cannot help attributing an exclusively male or female meaning to certain sexual symbols. Simultaneously it attempts to show that symbols are not as context-bound as structuralists are inclined to think, since the reversals of meanings discussed mostly refer to the individual symbol without affecting the context. A series of iconographic symbols and…
Mandalas and Mesoamerican Pecked Circles [and Comments and Reply]
The notion of the archetype of the Self in Jungian psychology and its expression in mandala or sacred-circle symbolism is reviewed. The role of mandalas in Hinduism and Buddhism is then briefly discussed, with special emphasis on Vajrayana Buddhism. The universality of the mandala and its function of aiding the integration of the individual into the Absolute is stressed by also examining the sacred rites of the Oglala Sioux. Then it is shown how …
On Paradox and Myth
On Evolutionary Epistemology
Language, Thought, and Tamil Verbal Humor
Lesser Known Faiths
The Polythetic Network of Tamil Folk Stories
This paper examines a number of Tamil folk stories gathered and published by Tamil writers, and demonstrates that a family resemblance (in Wittgenstein's sense) exists among them. Their motifs constitute a polythetic, or multiply arranged, network. The polythetic notion acknowledges the fact that we have to come to terms with complexity and probability rather than postulate essences and constants that are, at best, unfalsifiable. Since any motif …
Word, Sound, Image: The Life of the Tamil Text
A Response to Naithani's Review
The Taste of Laughter: Aspects of Tamil Humor
Glimpses of the Indian Village in Anthropology and Literature
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