L’Origine des manières de table

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anthropology book book structuralist work

L’Origine des manières de table is a volume of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologiques series that analyzes the cultural and structural significance of dining customs and table manners in human societies.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
L’Origine des manières de table canonical	3
Le Origines des manières de table	1
pleasures of the table	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7631411 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

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Target entity: L’Origine des manières de table
Context triple: [Mythologiques, hasPart, L’Origine des manières de table]

A. L’Assiette au Beurre
L’Assiette au Beurre was a French satirical illustrated magazine, active in the early 20th century, known for its politically charged, often anarchist-leaning caricatures and collaborations with avant-garde artists.
B. Le Déjeuner des canotiers
Le Déjeuner des canotiers is the original French title of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s celebrated Impressionist painting depicting friends dining on a balcony overlooking the Seine.
C. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe is a groundbreaking 1863 painting by Édouard Manet that scandalized contemporary audiences with its depiction of a nude woman picnicking with clothed men and is now seen as a key precursor to modern art.
D. La Joie de vivre
La Joie de vivre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores pessimism, suffering, and resilience within a bourgeois family in provincial France.
E. Le Pâté
Le Pâté is a small, uninhabited islet in the Îles des Saintes archipelago of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: L’Origine des manières de table
Target entity description: L’Origine des manières de table is a volume of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologiques series that analyzes the cultural and structural significance of dining customs and table manners in human societies.

A. L’Assiette au Beurre
L’Assiette au Beurre was a French satirical illustrated magazine, active in the early 20th century, known for its politically charged, often anarchist-leaning caricatures and collaborations with avant-garde artists.
B. Le Déjeuner des canotiers
Le Déjeuner des canotiers is the original French title of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s celebrated Impressionist painting depicting friends dining on a balcony overlooking the Seine.
C. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe is a groundbreaking 1863 painting by Édouard Manet that scandalized contemporary audiences with its depiction of a nude woman picnicking with clothed men and is now seen as a key precursor to modern art.
D. La Joie de vivre
La Joie de vivre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores pessimism, suffering, and resilience within a bourgeois family in provincial France.
E. Le Pâté
Le Pâté is a small, uninhabited islet in the Îles des Saintes archipelago of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	anthropology book ⓘ book ⓘ structuralist work ⓘ
analyzes	relationships between food, myth, and social structure ⓘ
author	Claude Lévi-Strauss ⓘ
contributor	Claude Lévi-Strauss ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	France ⓘ
explores	cultural significance of eating practices ⓘ rules of commensality ⓘ social meaning of table etiquette ⓘ
field	anthropology ⓘ ethnology ⓘ mythography ⓘ
focusesOn	Amerindian myths ⓘ symbolic oppositions in culinary practices ⓘ
followedBy	L’Homme nu ⓘ
follows	Du miel aux cendres ⓘ Le Cru et le cuit ⓘ linked to: Le Cru et le Cuit
genre	anthropology ⓘ cultural anthropology ⓘ mythology studies ⓘ structural anthropology ⓘ
hasForm	prose ⓘ
hasPerspective	structuralist analysis of myths ⓘ
hasTheme	classification of foods and meals ⓘ nature and culture ⓘ order and disorder in social life ⓘ
intendedAudience	academic readers ⓘ students of anthropology ⓘ
languageOfWork	French ⓘ
mainSubject	cultural codes ⓘ dining customs ⓘ myth ⓘ structural analysis of myth ⓘ symbolism of food ⓘ table manners ⓘ
movement	structuralism ⓘ
notableFor	application of structuralism to food and manners ⓘ integration of myth analysis with everyday practices ⓘ
originalTitle	L’Origine des manières de table ⓘ
partOfSeries	Mythologiques ⓘ
publicationCentury	20th century ⓘ
seriesOrdinal	3 ⓘ
workInSeriesPosition	third volume of Mythologiques ⓘ

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mythologiques → hasPart → L’Origine des manières de table ⓘ

Du miel aux cendres → isRelatedTo → L’Origine des manières de table ⓘ

L’Origine des manières de table → originalTitle → L’Origine des manières de table ⓘ

L’Homme nu → relatedWork → Le Origines des manières de table ⓘ

linked to: L’Origine des manières de table

M.F.K. Fisher → focusesOn → pleasures of the table ⓘ