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 whistle...

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Published in:Journal de la Société des Américanistes de Paris 2016-01, Vol.102 (1), p.161-164
Main Author: Hugh-Jones, Stephen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Anus
Caves
Cicadas
Digestive system
Earths Moon
Ethics
Ethnography
Flutes
Hunting
Indigenous culture
Indigenous peoples
Insect larvae
Levi-Strauss, Claude
Mythology
Sin of sloth
Underworld
Vagina
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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 monkeys...
ISSN:0037-9174
1957-7842
DOI:10.4000/jsa.14672