Author: Lévi-Strauss, Claude.
Title: The jealous potter.
Description: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996. Hardcover. Dustjacket. viii,250 pp. 22 cm. English translation of : La potiere jalouse. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - 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. Contents : 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 Tho ISBN 9780226474809.

Keywords: ANTHROPOLOGY,