The fire of the jaguar /
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| Author / Creator: | Turner, Terence, author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : Hau Books, 2017. |
| Description: | xl, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11417375 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures and tables
- Editor's Introduction
- Or why myth matters
- Foreword
- At long last
- Part 1. The Fire of the Jaguar: The Kayapo Myth of the Origin of Cooking Fire
- Chapter 1. General problems and methodological issues
- Chapter 2. The myth
- Chapter 3. The social setting
- Chapter 4. Cultural associations of the symbolic elements in the myth
- Chapter 5. The structure of the myth
- Chapter 6. The macaw and jaguar episodes
- Chapter 7. The final pair of episodes
- Chapter 8. Conclusions
- Part 2. Later Articles
- Beauty and the beast: The fearful symmetry of the jaguar and other natural beings in Kayapo ritual and myth (the 2011 R. R. Marett Lecture)
- Cosmology, objectification, and animism in indigenous Amazonia
- The crisis of late structuralism
- Bibliography
- Index
