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 ...

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 ... and the way we use words all led to him. To him, binary opposites were “a pair of opposites, thought by the Structuralists ...

Levi-Strauss wrote that people are accustomed to understanding the world in terms of binary opposites -- for instance, hot and cold, hard and soft, up and down, and the title of his seminal work ...

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 ...

When he died, they must have felt the way many of us do today on hearing of the death of Claude Levi-Strauss ... build worlds of meaning from binary oppositions, some of which are naturally ...