The Jealous Potter by Lévi-Strauss, Claude - 1988

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988 Book. As New. Hardcover. First English Edition. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. viii, 250 (1) pp, color frontis, 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 Americaa; 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 Demiugres as Jealous Potters; 12. Myths in the Form of Klein's Bottle; 13. The Nature of Myth; 14. A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo; Appendix: Tribes, Peoples, Linguistic Families; references, abbreviations, bibliography, acknowledgments. Translated by Benedicte Chorier: First English Edition, 1988. "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." Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine..