jfm comments on The Self-Reinforcing Binary - Less Wrong

-4 Post author: lucidfox 22 November 2010 09:01AM

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Comment author: jfm 23 November 2010 06:43:54PM 2 points [-]

You'd probably be well-served by having a look at Claude Levi-Strauss's "The Raw and the Cooked", which looks at quite a lot of binary oppositions (raw/cooked; nature/culture; female/male) in quite a few traditional societies, and how various binary oppositions get tied to the gender binary.