The Jealous Potter
Translated by Bénédicte Chorier
260 pages, 1 color plate, 11 halftones 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
©
1988
Cloth $31.00
ISBN: 9780226474809
Published April 1988
Paper $18.00
ISBN: 9780226474823
Published December 1996
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
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