The Jealous Potter

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Description

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. . . . May also be read with pleasure and profit by someone concerned with that aspect of self-discovery that comes through knowledge of the universal and timeless myths that continue to exist in all of us.”—Jonathan Sharp, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle

“A characteristic tour de force. . . . One continues to be awed by him.”—Colin Thubron, Sunday Times

“With all its epistemological depth, the book reads now and then like a Simenon or a Lewis Carroll, fusing concise methodology with mastery of favor.”—Bernadette Bucher, American Ethnologist

“[An] engagingly provocative exploration of mythology within the Americas. . . . At all times a excellent read.”—Choice

“A playful, highly entertaining book, fluently and elegantly translated by Bénédicte Chorier.”—Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, New York Times Book Review




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