Claude Lévi - Strauss




Claude Lévi - Strauss - Structuralism

 Structure is the order you put something in. 

 Binary opposition - where two concepts messages or values are presented in direct opposition with one other.  Lévi - Strauss suggested that our perception of the world is based on binary oppositions.  

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