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8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. viii, 250 (1) pp, color frontis,

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.

1st U.S. edition with full number line, U of Chicago Pr., 250pp. Color

1st U.S. edition with full number line, U of Chicago Pr., 250pp. Color frontis, b/w illustrations throughout. Tight and sturdy, with text very good+, boards clean and square, brilliant spine lettering. DJ unclipped, sunned at spine. NOT ex-lib. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.