So it is different from dichotomy. Binary opposition started from linguistics and moved onto cultural anthropology. Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss argues that the human cultural structure is based ...

These binary oppositions were universally available ... Structuralism became fashionable in the 1960s, but Levi-Strauss was embarrassed by the association of flamboyant figures like Barthes ...

perhaps the greatest one being the binary nature of human thought. This and that. Us and them. For Levi-Strauss, humans divide their culture into oppositions. Hot and cold, raw and cooked (the ...

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 ...