Dustinguish b/w the natural ans cultural phenomena
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Answer: In the process of taking these two terms as macro classes between which all things can be distributed, we place humans in both classes. And with this move, we submit the distinction to a concentric schema. Perhaps the best illustration of this method can be found in Lévi-Strauss (1967 and 1976). Nature includes (enables and in a certain sense determines) culture; the latter is both part of nature and one of its particular modalities of expression. Even for the anthropologist who, like Sahlins (1976), rejects the abstract reductionism of Lévi-Strauss and asserts that it is culture that determines nature, it seems impossible to escape a concentric reading of the distinction. Moreover, one finds in the work of Lévi-Strauss not only both ways of conceiving their relationship but also a synthesis of the two models, one which expresses the idea that nature must be determined by culture.