The fire of the jaguar / / Terence Turner ; edited by Jane Fajans |
Autore | Turner Terence S. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Illinois : , : Hau Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 pages) |
Disciplina | 266.009815 |
Soggetto topico | Cayapo Indians - Social life and customs |
ISBN | 1-912808-07-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793130203321 |
Turner Terence S. | ||
Chicago, Illinois : , : Hau Books, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The fire of the jaguar / / Terence Turner ; edited by Jane Fajans |
Autore | Turner Terence S. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Illinois : , : Hau Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 pages) |
Disciplina | 266.009815 |
Soggetto topico | Cayapo Indians - Social life and customs |
ISBN | 1-912808-07-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822401503321 |
Turner Terence S. | ||
Chicago, Illinois : , : Hau Books, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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