The jealous potter
By: Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated by Bénédicte Chorier.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 250
Work titles: La potière jalouse.
Description: 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. Levi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism.