Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
The Raw and the Cooked
Lévi-Strauss's 1964 first volume of Mythologiques — structural analysis of South American myth
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Raw and the Cooked (Mature) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Non-Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Bi-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The Raw and the Cooked
The 1964 publication moment; the deeper indigenous-mythological time.
Space
The Raw and the Cooked
South American indigenous geography; the structural-anthropological setting.
Matter
The Raw and the Cooked
The cultural-symbolic-mythological material the work analyses.
Observer
The Raw and the Cooked
Lévi-Strauss as proper structural-anthropological observer.
Energy
The Raw and the Cooked
The intellectual energies of mid-twentieth-century French structuralism.
Information
The Raw and the Cooked
The systematic-structural content of the analysis.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Raw and the Cooked has been variously assessed — defenders see foundational structural-anthropological achievement, post-structuralist critics have substantially modified the framework.