Lévi-Strauss, Poronominaré and the Cicadas. A footnote to The Jealous Potter
Lévi-Strauss’s book The Jealous Potter is devoted to an exploration of an Amerindian moral philosophy preoccupied with myths about the regulation of entry into and exit from the digestive tract. Sloths and howler monkeys are exemplars of continence and incontinence. Sloths have both a feeble whistl...
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Journal de la Société des américanistes
2016
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| Summary: | Lévi-Strauss’s book The Jealous Potter is devoted to an exploration of an Amerindian moral philosophy preoccupied with myths about the regulation of entry into and exit from the digestive tract. Sloths and howler monkeys are exemplars of continence and incontinence. Sloths have both a feeble whistle as a voice and fastidious excretory habits – on the rare occasions that they defecate, they come down from the trees to leave rock-hard droppings in one specific place. By contrast, howler monkey... |
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