The noted French anthropologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss ... Post-monotheist? Such terms are too binary to capture a man of Lévi-Strauss’ subtlety. What he was in the end was mortal. And his life’s work ...

(CNN)-- Anyone who has taken an anthropology course has probably heard of Claude ... she said. Levi-Strauss wrote that people are accustomed to understanding the world in terms of binary opposites ...

I did not choose Claude Levi-Strauss; he was thrust upon me ... Another example of a contested binary opposition is rational vs. emotional, in which the rational term is usually privileged ...

The great French anthropologist Claude ... one being the binary nature of human thought. This and that. Us and them. For Levi-Strauss, humans divide their culture into oppositions.

Claude Lévi-Strauss was ... The elaborate play of structures based on binary oppositions is the subject of La Pensée Sauvage. In the Mythologiques, Lévi-Strauss treated the native mythologies ...

Claude Levi-Strauss, the French philosopher widely considered ... that often serve as organizing elements in societies. He explored these binary concepts to find fundamental truths about humanity ...

The son of a painter, Claude ... Lévi-Strauss published La Vie familiale et sociale des Indiens Nambikwara (1948), and Les Structures Elémentaires de la parenté (1949). In opposition to ...

BEFORE Claude ... binary opposites such as hot and cold, night and day, raw and cooked, good and bad. Round these concepts whole societies, as well as stories, were organised. Mr Lévi-Strauss ...