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The jealous potter.

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In this volume Levi-Strauss 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.

The author also critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism.

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University of Chicago Press
0226474828 / 9780226474823
Paperback / softback
299.7
01/12/1996
United States
English
viii, 250 pages : illustrations (black and white)
22 cm
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Reprint. Translated from the French This translation originally published: 1988.