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Later in his most popular work, The Raw and the Cooked, he described the widely dispersed folk tales of tribal South America as all related to one another through a series of transformations — as one opposite in tales here changed into another opposite in tales there.
These particular opposites ( raw / cooked ) are symbolic of human culture itself, in which by means of thought and labour ( economics ), raw materials become clothes, food, weapons, art, ideas.
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