The Jealous Potter

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By: Claude Levi-Strauss, Benedicte Chorier (Translator)

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Hardcover | 15 April 1988 | Edition Number 1

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As Levi-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. Levi-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 Benedicte Chorier."--Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, "New York Times Book Review"

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Non-Fiction Psychology Social Psychology Society & Culture Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge Folklore Studies / Study of Myth (Mythology)Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Miscellaneous Items

Introduction
A Jivaro Myth
Pottery, a "Jealous Art"
Goatsucker Myths in South America
Potters' Kilns and Cooking Fire
Goatsucker Myths in North America
Oral Greediness and Anal Retention
The Sloth as Cosmological Symbol
In Quest of Zoemes
Levels of the World
Excrement, Meteors, Jealousy, Dismembered Body
California Demiurges as Jealous Potters
Myths in the Form of Klein's Bottle
The Nature of Mythic Thought
A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo Appendix: Tribes, Peoples, Linguistic Families
References
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
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