The Jealous Potter

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ISBN
9780226474809
Book Title
Jealous Potter
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Item Length
0.9 in
Publication Year
1988
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.1 in
Author
Claude Levi-Strauss
Genre
Social Science, Psychology
Topic
Folklore & Mythology, Social Psychology
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Width
0.6 in
Number of Pages
260 Pages

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226474801
ISBN-13
9780226474809
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96008

Product Key Features

Book Title
Jealous Potter
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Folklore & Mythology, Social Psychology
Publication Year
1988
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Psychology
Author
Claude Levi-Strauss
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
87-030076
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
398.2/08997
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
As 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 Number
E59.R38L6313 1988

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