Oppositions¶

Lévi-Strauss: Le Cru et le cuit cru-cuit

"Raw" vs "cooked", "生" (raw, alive) vs "熟" (cooked) "barbarian" vs "civilized" "orality" vs "literacy"

Examples¶

"raw" vs "cooked"¶

陌生人 — path + raw + person = stranger 熟人 — cooked + person = familiar person 成熟 mature, "developed" art-not-govch. 4

"orality" vs "literacy"¶

文 — meaning "text", from 花纹 "pattern"

文明 — text + illuminated = civilised 文化 — text + transform = culture