was built up from 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 ...

Claude Levi ... opposites, such as black and white, cooked and raw, roasted and boiled, or rational and emotional, that often serve as organizing elements in societies. He explored these binary ...

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 ...