test three

Question 1

claude levi-strauss

Answer 1

1908-2009

structuralism

Question 2

claude levi-strauss’s view on basic human thinking

Answer 2

basic human thinking is in binary oppositions bound by a mediator-based on the human brain

Question 3

claude levi-strauss’s view on mental demand

Answer 3

all people share a mental demand for order to to tinker with the world in thought, even if it cant be changed in reality

Question 4

levi-strauss’s view on kinship

Answer 4

women are exchanged as gifts to create alliances, all human groups are wife givers or wife takers. Builds on Maus’s notion of reciprocity of gifts

Question 5

levi-strauss’s view on myth

Answer 5

myth is like a language, and like language, can be broke into constituent parts in order to analyze meaning. In myth, human mind has its wildest freedom to tinker with the world

Question 6

levi-strauss’s view on human mind

Answer 6

although the human mind is everywhere the same cultures differ because of history, environment, and technology to deal with environment