Claude Levi Strauss

- myths are akin to a musical fugue, in that they can only be translated through another myth - the drive of myths within humanity is the obsession to solve a paradox that cannot be solved - in the question of describing reality as experienced by humans, it is meditated by the structure of the nervous system through its management of mind and experience - structuralism attempts to identify the underlying code to phenomena, something that can be universal or "invariant" – human intellectual endeavour is to introduce some kind of order to the universe - non-writing societies still are moved by a desire to understand the world around them through intellectual thought processes – the human mind is generally the same (capacity-wise) and becomes specialised around the needs of the indivdual - in order to produce culture, groups must believe in their independent uniqueness – now we are consumers with no originality due to the overabundance of information -