Claude Calame

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Claude Calame (* 1943 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss Graecist , semiotic and cultural anthropologist .

Life

Claude Calame studied Classical Philology at the University of Lausanne and obtained his license in 1966 . This was followed by postgraduate stays at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales , Paris , and the University College London . In 1968 he was a research assistant at the Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic in Hamburg , and from 1970 to 1974 lecturer in Greek at the University of Urbino in Italy. From 1975 to 1984 he taught ancient languages at the Collège de Béthusy in Lausanne. From 1976 to 1981 he was President of the Association Suisse de Sémiotique . In 1977 he received his doctorate from the University of Lausanne with a thesis on the early Greek poet Alkman and his girls' choirs as Docteur ès Lettres. In winter 1981/82 he led as part of anthropological research fieldwork in the region of the Sepik in Papua New Guinea through.

From 1984 to 2003 he was professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Lausanne, but also held various visiting professorships and research stays abroad ( Harvard 1992, Lille 1993/1994, Yale 1998). In 1997 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study . From 1994 to 1997 he was President of the Département Interfacultaire d'Histoire et de Sciences des Religions at the University of Lausanne and was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Observatoire des religions en Suisse when it was founded in 1999 .

In the winter of 1991/92 he was invited as Directeur d'études to the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Section des Sciences Religieuses) in Paris, reappointed in the winter of 1998/99 and in 2001 a permanent employee. Since then, he has also been connected to the Center Louis-Gernet de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes , which has merged into the Center Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques (AnHiMA). He has now retired.

Calame is involved in social and political issues beyond specialist boundaries in published statements (criticism of neoliberalism and Swiss asylum policy ) and in public debates, especially within the framework of the globalization - critical non-governmental organization ATTAC .

Research priorities

The focus of Calame's work is the semiotic , anthropological and pragmatic investigation of society and mythology of ancient Greece . In contrast to the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss , Calame attaches great importance to the respective contexts of the énonciation ("utterance") of myth narratives, the respective seat in life , which he elicits with philological accuracy. Calame regularly pays great attention to the differentiation of his methodology. His interpretation of the educational and initiatory function of the Partheneia (girls' choirs) by the Spartan lyric poet Alkman from the 7th century BC. In this regard, BC represented a paradigm shift in the interpretation of early Greek poetry . Calame recognized elements of archaic tribal initiatives in the rites de passage . Further works on the Athenian national hero Theseus and the Greek city of Cyrene in North Africa are dedicated to the pragmatic connection between myth and historical cult . As for Theseus, he was able to show that in Athens in the 6th and 5th centuries traditional archaic mythical material was reinterpreted in a ritual and institutional context into a national mythology of the hero. Using further examples, Calame developed a pragmatic and anthropological poetics of ancient Greek myths in this sense . In his study on the eros of the Greeks, Calame works on a physiology of love , the function of eros in poetry and pictorial representation, the institutions which he supports, the space in which he exercises his power, and its initiatory function with the philosophers and the Orphics out. Most recently, he devoted extensive work to the interrelated categories of space and time in early Greek poetry ( Hesiod , Bakchylides ), the establishment of space and time in the founding of the colony of Cyrene, and the temporal alignment of language in the Orphic gold leaf from Hipponion .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Etymologicum Genuinum: les citations de poètes lyriques. Edizioni dell 'Ateneo, Rome 1970.
  • Les Chœurs de jeunes filles en Grèce archaïque. 2 volumes (Volume 1: Morphologie, fonction religieuse et sociale ; Volume 2: Alcman ). Ateneo, Rome 1977.
  • Le Récit en Grèce ancienne. Announcements and representations of poets. Klincksieck, Paris 1986; deuxième édition revue et augmentée, Belin, Paris 2000.
    • Italian translation: Il racconto in Grecia. Enunciazioni e rappresentazioni di poeti. Traduzione di Maria Rosaria Falivene. Laterza, Roma, Bari 1988.
    • English translation: The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece. Translated by Janice Orion. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, London 1995, (excerpts online) . - Review by: Eric Casey, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.6.4 .
  • Thésée et l'imaginaire athénien. Legend et culte en Grèce classique. Preface de Pierre Vidal-Naquet . Payot, Lausanne 1990, second edition 1996. - Review by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, in: Kernos 6, 1993, (download) ; Pascal Payen, in: Revue de l'histoire des religions 210, 1993, pp. 93-99, (online) ; Philippe Borgeaud, in: History of Religions 41, 2001, pp. 81–84, (online) ; Anton Bierl , in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review May 2nd , 2004 ; Patrick Kaplanian, in: L'Homme 164, 2002, (online) .
  • I Greci e l'eros. Simboli, pratiche, luoghi. Laterza, Roma - Bari 1992.
    • French version: L'Éros dans la Grèce antique. Belin, Paris 1996, second expanded edition. 2001; as paperback: 2009. - Review by André Motte , in: Kernos 11, 1998, (download) .
    • English translation: The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1999, (excerpts online) . - Review by Simon Goldhill , in: Classical Philology 95, 2000, pp. 358-362, (online) ; Christina Clark, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 08/11/1999 .
    • Spanish translation: Eros en la antigua Grecia. Madrid, AKAL, 2002.
    • Romanian translation: Eros în Grecia antică. Traducere de Margareta Sfirschi-Lăudat. Symposium, Bucharest 2004.
    • Greek translation: Ο Έρωτας στην Αρχαία Ελλάδα. Metaichmio, Athens 2006.
  • Myth et histoire dans l'Antiquité grecque. La création symbolique d'une colonie. Payot, Lausanne 1996. Deuxième édition Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2011. - Review by Claudio Parisi Presicce, in: Kernos 11, 1998, (online) .
    • Italian translation: Mito e storia nell'Antichità greca. Traduzione di Elisabetta Savoldi. Dedalo, Bari, 1999.
    • English translation: Myth and History in Ancient Greece. The Symbolic Creation of a Colony. Princeton, 2003. - (To be regarded as the second edition of the French original) - Review by Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004/11/34 ; Erwin Cook, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004-11-36 .
  • Poétique des mythes en Grèce antique. Hachette, Paris 2000.
    • English translation: Greek Mythology: Poetics, Pragmatics and Fiction. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 2009, (online) . - ( To be regarded as the second edition of the French original) - Review by Sterling Garnett, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 02.55.2010 .
    • Italian translation: Poetiche dei miti nella Grecia antica. Argo, Lecce 2011.
  • with Francis Affergan, Silvana Borutti, Ugo Fabietti, Mondher Kilani, Francesco Remotti: Figures de l'humain. Les représentations de l'anthropologie. Éditions de l'EHSS, Paris 2003.
  • Pratiques poétiques de la mémoire. Représentations de l'espace-temps en Grèce ancienne. La Découverte, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-7071-4798-2 , (table of contents) . - Review by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, in: Kernos 20, 2007, (online) ; Emma M. Griffiths, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04/05/2007 ; Bernard Mezzadri, in: L'Homme 184, 2007, 289–294, (online) ..
  • Masques d'autorité. Fiction et pragmatique dans la poétique grecque. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2005. - (Collection of essays from 1986 to 1997).
    • English translation: Masks of Authority. Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics. Translated from the French by Peter M. Burk. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY - London 2005 . - Review by Helen Van Noorden, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.09.36 .
    • English translation: Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece. Heroic Reference and Ritual Gestures in Time and Space. Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass. - London 2009.
  • Sentiers transversaux. Entre poétiques grecques et politiques contemporaines. Jérôme Millon éd., Paris 2008, (online) . - (Collection of essays by Calame on Greek antiquity, the methodology of its development and the current political situation, edited by Calame's students David Bouvier, Martin Steinrück and Pierre Voelke) - Review by Sébastien Dalmon, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.06.47 ; Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, in: Kernos 22, 2009, (online) .
  • Prométhée généticien. Profits techniques et usages des métaphores. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2010. - Review by Aurian Delli Pizzi, in: Kernos 24, 2011, (online) ; María Inés Moretti, in: Synthesis 19, 2012, pp. 125–128, (online) .
  • Qu'est-ce que la mythologie grecque? Gallimard, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-0704-4578-3 . ( Table of contents )

Text edition

  • Alcman. Texts critique, témoignages, traduction et commentaire. Ateneo, Rome 1984.

Editorships

  • (Ed.): Rito e poesia corale in Grecia. Guida storica e critica. Laterza, Roma-Bari 1977.
  • (Ed.): L'amore in Grecia. Laterza, Roma-Bari 1983, four editions, most recently in 2006.
  • (Ed.): Métamorphoses du mythe en Grèce antique. Labor & Fides, Genève 1988. - Review by Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, in: Revue de l'histoire des religions 209, 1992, pp. 67-73, (online) .
  • with Jean-Michel Adam, Marie-Jeanne Borel and Mondher Kilani (eds.): Le Discours anthropologique. Description, narration, savoir. Klincksieck, Paris 1990, second edition. Payot, Lausanne 1995. - Review by Pascal Payen, in: L'Homme 34, 1994, pp. 153-155, (online) .
  • (Ed.): Figures grecques de l'intermédiaire. Études de Lettres-Belles Lettres, Lausanne-Paris 1992. - Review by Gérald Purnelle, in: Kernos 6, 1993, (online) .
  • with David Bouvier (ed.): Philosophes et historiens anciens face aux mythes. Études de Lettres-Belles Lettres, Lausanne-Paris 1998.
  • with Mondher Kilani (ed.): La Fabrication de l'humain dans les cultures et en anthropologie. Études de Lettres-Belles Lettres, Lausanne-Paris 1999. - Review by: Colette Jourdain-Annequin, in: Anabases 3, 2006, (online) .
  • with Philippe Borgeaud and André Hurst (eds.): L'Orphisme et ses écritures. Nouvelles recherches. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, Volume 219, No. 4, 2002, (online) . - (Special issue on orphics with contributions by Claude Calame, Alberto Bernabé, Luc Brisson , Christoph Riedweg , Jean Rudhardt and Jean-Michel Roessli)
  • with Roger Chartier (ed.): Identités d'auteur dans l'Antiquité et la tradition européenne. Millon, Grenoble 2004. - Review by Ioanna Papadopoulou-Belmehdi, in: Kernos 19, 2006, (online) ; Malika Bastin-Hammou, in: Anabases 2, 2005, (online) ; Daniel Donnet, in: L'Antiquité Classique 75, 2006, pp. 676-678, (online) .
  • (Ed.): Poétique d'Aristophane et langue d'Euripide en dialogue. Études de Lettres-Belles Lettres, Lausanne-Paris 2004. - Review by Ioanna Papadopoulou-Belmehdi, in: Kernos 19, 2006, (online) ; Keith Sidwell, in: Classical Review 57, 2007, pp. 295-296.
  • with Maya Burger (Ed.): Comparer les comparatismes. Perspectives sur l'histoire et les sciences of religion. Edidit - Arché, Paris-Milan 2006. - Review by Regis Le Mer, in: Archives de sciences sociales des religions 148, 2009, (online) ; Corinne Bonnet, in: Anabases 6, 2007, (online) .
  • with Bruce Lincoln (ed.): Comparer en histoire des religions antiques. Controverses et propositions. Presses Universitaires de Liège, Liège 2012 (Collection religions: comparatisme, histoire, anthropologie, 1). - Review by Deborah Lyons, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013-11-15 .

Social criticism

  • (Ed.): Identités de l'individu contemporain. Ed. Textuel, Paris 2008,. - Review by Monique Bile, in: Questions de communication 14, 2008, (online) .
  • ATTAC (ed.): Le capitalisme contre les individus: repères altermondialistes. Ed. Textuel, Paris 2010 (contributions by Claude Calame, Christiane Casteljon, Philippe Corcuff and others).

literature

  • Yves Gerhard: André Bonnard et l'hellénisme à Lausanne au XXe siècle. Editions de l'Aire, Vevey 2011. - (contains sections on Bonnard's successors at the Lausanne chair)
  • Ute Heidmann (Ed.): Poétiques comparées des mythes. De l'Antiquité à la Modernité. En hommage à Claude Calame. Payot, Lausanne 2003. - Review by Charles Delattre, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 06/05/2004 ; Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, in: Kernos 18, 2005, (online) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Center de recherche et de documentation on les changements religieux, l'Observatoire des religions en Suisse a été inauguré à l'UNIL on December 14, 1999 .
  2. ↑ Colloque interdisciplinaire à l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) organized par Claude Calame avec le soutien du groupe «Individualisme contemporain» du Conseil scientifique d'ATTAC: L'individu et ses identités - Perspectives sociologiques, anthropologiques et discursives ( PDF), February 8th 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Calame, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Graecist, semiotic and cultural anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne