Return of the White Raven: Postdiluvial Reconnaissance Motif A2234.1.1 Reconsidered

Коротаев, А.В.; Berezkin, Yuri; Kozmin, Artem; Arkhipova, A. I.

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“…Note also, that a fairly detailed reconstruction of the ancient beliefs of human populations is possible by means of quantitative stylistic analysis of modern databases of folklore and mythological motifs (Berezkin 2003(Berezkin , 2005(Berezkin , 2007a(Berezkin , 2007b(Berezkin , 2010(Berezkin , 2015D'Huy 2012D'Huy , 2013Korotayev 2006;Korotayev et al 2006Korotayev et al , 2017. On the other hand, it has been shown that the verification of these reconstructions is possible with the use of genetic data (see, e.g., Korotayev 2004aKorotayev , 2004bBorinskaya and Korotayev 2007;Wilson 2008).…”

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“…By now we observe the emergence of an idea that a significant breakthrough in the reconstruction of the most ancient history of humankind in an unusually full detail can be achieved through the synthesis of the methodologies of sociocultural anthropology, comparative linguistics, crosscultural research, genetics, archeology, comparative folklore studies, and so on (see, e.g., Ember et al 2006;Korotayev and Kazankov 2000;Jones 2003;Korotayev 2006;Korotayev et al 2006;Smail 2007;Gray, Drummond, and Greenhill 2009;Fortunato 2011;Gray, Atkinson, and Greenhill 2011;Shenk and Mattison 2011;Bouckaert et al 2012;Bellwood 2014;Holman et al 2015;Johnson and Paul 2016).…”

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Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930–2019)

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Hall³

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Currently, the main source for the reconstruction of the most ancient history of humankind is archeology, which almost by definition makes it possible to restore only just a few elements of the most ancient human culture (naturally, almost exclusively -material culture). A mere introduction of comparative linguistic data makes it possible to significantly refine our reconstruction of a respective culture. If a certain linguistic Urheimat may be localized in space and in time within the area and lifespan of a certain archaeological culture, this suggests that we may have an idea of the lan-Korotayev et al. / Evolution of Eurasian and African Family Systems 287guage spoken by respective population, as the application of comparative linguistic methods allows us to reconstruct the vocabulary of the carriers of the respective protolanguage, that makes it possible to identify a set of terms denoting the realities of family organization, political attitudes, beliefs, etc. A very important part of the reconstructed vocabulary is constituted by the kinship terminology. As is well known (and as is demonstrated in this article again), the kinship terminology displays rather strong correlations with respective types of kinship organization, which could allow to reconstruct important features of clan and family structure of the respective populations. This reconstruction can be further verified by using archaeological and genetic data. It is demonstrated that the papers presented at the International Workshop 'Murdock and Goody Re-visited: (Pre)history and evolution of Eurasian and African family systems' that was organized in April 2015 by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology suggest that we are close to having all the necessary ingredients to undertake such a program of a deep historical reconstruction.

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Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930–2019)

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Hall³

2019

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“…The recurrence of a shared motif in widely separated cultural groups has been useful for reconstructing cross-cultural contact and examining cultural diffusion. In this context, past studies have considered the diffusion of specific motifs, sometimes chosen as those that are widespread or that have particular cultural salience ( Korotaev et al, 2006 ; Berezkin, 2010 ; Ross et al, 2013 ; Tehrani, 2013 ). Rather than choosing motifs based on prior significance, the NMI approach identifies motifs that are most informative about cultural groupings from patterns of motif occurrence alone.…”

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Extracting hierarchical features of cultural variation using network-based clustering

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High-dimensional data sets on cultural characters contribute to uncovering insights about factors that influence cultural evolution. Because cultural variation in part reflects descent processes with a hierarchical structure—including descent of populations and vertical transmission of cultural traits—methods designed for hierarchically structured data have potential to find applications in the analysis of cultural variation. We adapt a network-based hierarchical clustering method for use in analyzing cultural variation. Given a set of entities, the method constructs a similarity network, hierarchically depicting community structure among them. We illustrate the approach using four data sets: pronunciation variation in the United States mid-Atlantic region, folklore variation in worldwide cultures, phonemic variation across worldwide languages, and temporal variation in first names in the United States. In these examples, the method provides insights into processes that affect cultural variation, uncovering geographic and other influences on observed patterns and cultural characters important in contributing to them.

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“…Once the raven is replaced by a local black bird, the motif extends to South America. The white raven motif is a very old one, often part of the Flood and the Earth diver myths, that got transferred to the New World in pre-Columbian times (Korotayev et al 2006). The third motif is 'The Hole in the Sky', which is a concept related to the vision of a solid sky, at least 4000 years old (Seely 1991).…”

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A Large-Scale Study of World Myths

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The study of the narrative elements in tales and myths (motifs) belongs to a long tradition, initially aimed at finding the area of origin of early narratives (Urtexts). This objective, which has been much criticized, is generally abandoned today, but is it possible to establish the basis for an objectively verifiable mythogeography? Computer technology enables sophisticated mathematical computations on databases of an unprecedented scale, which makes it possible to base the comparative mythology on replicable calculation processes. In order to check for several subsets of motifs that could be specific to particular zones or continents, we test here two new methods on a corpus of 2264 motifs from ca. 40.000 myths recorded among 934 peoples around the globe, and we show that these motifs are best classified into two main groups.

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Return of the White Raven: Postdiluvial Reconnaissance Motif A2234.1.1 Reconsidered

Cited by 7 publications

References 62 publications

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930–2019)

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930–2019)

Extracting hierarchical features of cultural variation using network-based clustering

A Large-Scale Study of World Myths

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