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Claude Lévi-Strauss

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
Subjects



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