| Description |
viii, 250 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for The jealous potter / Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated by Bénédicte Chorier. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Introduction -- 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 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Indian mythology, Pottery Mythology, Indians Folklore, Psychoanalysis and folklore, Mythology Psychological aspects, Tales Structural analysis |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
North American Indian myths |
| Notes |
Translation of: La potière jalouse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-250) and appendices |
| Notes |
Translation of: La potière jalouse |
| Subject |
Indian mythology.
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Indians -- Folklore.
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Mythology -- Psychological aspects.
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Indians -- Religion.
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Pottery -- Mythology.
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Psychoanalysis and folklore.
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Tales -- Structural analysis.
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| Author |
Chorier, Bénédicte
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| LC no. |
87030076 |
| ISBN |
0226474801 |
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0226474828 paperback |
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9780226474809 |
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9780226474823 paperback |
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