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The Fire of the Jaguar.

Turner, Terence S.

The Fire of the Jaguar. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (298 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Editor's introduction -- Foreword -- Part one -- Chapter One: General problems and methodological issues -- Chapter Two: The myth -- Chapter Three: The social setting -- Chapter Four: Cultural associations of the symbolic elements in the myth -- Chapter Five: The structure of the myth -- Chapter Six: The macaw and jaguar episodes -- Chapter Seven: The final pair of episodes -- Chapter Eight: Conclusions -- Part two -- Beauty and the beast: The fearful symmetry of the jaguar and other natural beings in Kayapo ritual and myth -- Cosmology, objectification, and animism in indigenous Amazonia -- The crisis of late structuralism -- Bibliography -- Index.

9781912808076


Cayapo Indians-Social life and customs.


Electronic books.

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398.2089/984

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