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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226474801

ISBN-139780226474809

eBay Product ID (ePID)96008

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Book TitleJealous Potter

Number of Pages260 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1988

TopicFolklore & Mythology, Social Psychology

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Psychology

AuthorClaude Levi-Strauss

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight17 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN87-030076

Dewey Edition19

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal398.2/08997

Table Of ContentIntroduction 1: A Jivaro Myth 2: Pottery, a "Jealous Art" 3: Goatsucker Myths in South America 4: Potters' Kilns and Cooking Fire 5: Goatsucker Myths in North America 6: Oral Greediness and Anal Retention 7: The Sloth as Cosmological Symbol 8: In Quest of Zoemes 9: Levels of the World 10: Excrement, Meteors, Jealousy, Dismembered Body 11: California Demiurges as Jealous Potters 12: Myths in the Form of Klein's Bottle 13: The Nature of Mythic Thought 14: A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo Appendix: Tribes, Peoples, Linguistic Families References Abbreviations Bibliography Acknowledgments

SynopsisAs L vi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification," and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. L vi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism. "Electrifying. . . . A brilliant demonstration of structural analysis in action. . . . Can be read with pleasure and profit by anyone interested in that aspect of self-discovery that comes through knowledge of the universal and timeless myths that live on in all of us."--Jonathan Sharp, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle "A characteristic tour de force. . . . One remains awed by him."--Colin Thubron, Sunday Times "With all its epistemological depth, the book reads at times like a Simenon or a Lewis Carroll, fusing concise methodology with mastery of style."--Bernadette Bucher, American Ethnologist " An] engagingly provocative exploration of mythology in the Americas. . . . Always a good read."-- Choice "A playful, highly entertaining book, fluently and elegantly translated by B n dicte Chorier."--Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, New York Times Book Review, As Lévi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification," and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Lévi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism. "Electrifying. . . . A brilliant demonstration of structural analysis in action. . . . Can be read with pleasure and profit by anyone interested in that aspect of self-discovery that comes through knowledge of the universal and timeless myths that live on in all of us."--Jonathan Sharp, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle "A characteristic tour de force. . . . One remains awed by him."--Colin Thubron, Sunday Times "With all its epistemological depth, the book reads at times like a Simenon or a Lewis Carroll, fusing concise methodology with mastery of style."--Bernadette Bucher, American Ethnologist "[An] engagingly provocative exploration of mythology in the Americas. . . . Always a good read."-- Choice "A playful, highly entertaining book, fluently and elegantly translated by Bénédicte Chorier."--Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, New York Times Book Review

LC Classification NumberE59.R38L6313 1988