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Food & Culture CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS. I auspiciously came across a paper last night by Edmund Leach all about Claude Levi-Strauss. I had been looking to find some work by Strauss himself available on the great wide web, but who better to read than a man who widely publicized Levi-Struass’s work to the British academic tradition. Levi-Strauss, in his famous analysis of the raw, the cooked and the rotten, saw this triangle, in native thought, as being formed by the elaboration and nature/culture distinctions. Food starts as Raw, and then is transformed by either natural or cultural processes. Cultural processes yield Cooked food. Natural processes yield Rotten food. In his book The Raw and the Cooked, Levi-Strauss goes further to discuss how binary pairs, particularly binary opposites, form the basic structure of all human cultures, all human ways of thought, and all human signifying systems. If there is a common 'human nature' or 'human condition,' from this perspective, it's that everyone everywhere. Cooking foods also extends their life, easing worries about where the next meal is coming from. During this same period people began hardening arrow tips in the fire, facilitating hunting. So Claude Levi-Strauss's metaphor 'The Raw & the Cooked' to express the opposition between nature and culture is extremely apposite. Other articles where The Raw and the Cooked is discussed: myth: Music: Cru et le cuit, 1964; The Raw and the Cooked) he explains that his procedure is “to treat the sequences of each myth, and the myths themselves in respect of their reciprocal interrelations, like the instrumental parts of a musical work and to study them as one studies a symphony.”.

— Claude Lévi-Strauss, book The Raw and the Cooked

The Raw and the Cooked : Introduction to a Science of Mythology (1975) Vol. I, [Le Cru et le Cuit, as translated by Doreen and John Weightman], p. 113

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