Claude Levi Strauss
Anthropology is the study of human nature.
Nicknamed 'the father of modern anthropology' Levi-Strausswas a french anthropologist who considered 'culture' to be a system of symbolic communication.
He believed that we understand the meaning of words through their opposites. For example, we can only truly understand what 'light' is if we can identify 'dark'. Words themselves are therfore symbols used to allow us to garner a deeper meaning about what seperates them from their opposites - semiotics.
In understanding binaries, we can come to recognise the meaning that sociert places on groups of people.
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