Chapter 7, Questions 1-6

1. What does it mean to say "the mind works through form"?
What this means is that everything we see is seen through a structure form, which is an unconscious action.

2. Claude Levi-Strauss believes the way the mind works hasn't changed over history. What do you think?
I think that the minds have changed over time and that the way they work can change as well. Over time, humans have evolved and I believe that the mind would evolve as well.

3. What is the role of paired opposites in the ideas of Levi-Strauss?
Levi-Strauss states that myths and language have no meaning when they are by themsleves, this is like the idea of opposites because you can not have a word without the opposite. We think in terms of opposites, without the word "dark" we would not know what "light" means.

4. Why do "seperate units" have no meaning in language?
Because we use context or knowing the place in the sentence to define a word and seperately there would be no meaning.

5. It is the way that myths are assembled that is crucial, Douglas asserts. Why?
Because the way it is assembled is vital when figuring out what something means.

6. Define structualism and explain its significance.
Structualism "analyzes phenomena in terms of their basic unit and the way these units are assembled". Which means it simplifies language to just the word, which is the basic unit, and looks at how the words are assembled and used to show the meaning.