The fire of the jaguar /

Not since Clifford Geertz's "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" has the publication of an anthropological analysis been as eagerly awaited as this book. Turner's reanalysis of the famous myth from the Kayapo people of Brazil was anticipated as an exemplar of a new, dynam...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turner, Terence (Autor)
Otros Autores: Fajans, Jane (Editor ), Graeber, David (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago, Illinois : Hau Books, [2017]
Temas:
Cayapo Indians > Mythology.
Kayapó > Mythologie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Kulturanthropologie
Religionsethnologie
Mythologie
Kosmologie
Kayapó
Brasilien
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Editor's introduction: or why myth matters / Jane Fajans. Foreword: at long last / David Graeber. Part 1 The fire of the jaguar: the Kayapo myth of the origin of cooking fire : General problems and methodological issues
  • The myth
  • The social setting
  • Cultural associations of the symbolic elements in the myth
  • The structure of the myth
  • The macaw and jaguar episodes
  • The final pair of episodes
  • 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.

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