The metaphors of thought

La Potière jalouse by Claude Lévi-Strauss

Authors

  • Juan Carlos Godenzzi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v18i27.1015

Keywords:

Claude Lévi-Strauss, crítica, discusiones antropológicas

Abstract

What can pottery, marital jealousy, and a bird that eats insects have in common? Nothing invites from first intention to establish a relationship. However, the Jívaro myths of first intention to fix a relationship. However, the Jívaro myths establish a close connection between such domains. It is that, Lévi-Strauss tells us, popular thought always manages to discover analogies and symbolic equivalences that are of the order of metaphor. In The Jealous Potter (Plon. Paris, 1985. 315 pp.), Lévi-Strauss deals with the indigenous myths of the two Americas. Through them he tries to solve three problems: One, of an ethnographic order, on the analogies of the American indigenous myths; another, concerning the logic of myths, on the common bond that is established between heterogeneous terms; and another, finally, on the relationship between mythical thought in general and meaning.

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Published

1986-06-02

How to Cite

The metaphors of thought: La Potière jalouse by Claude Lévi-Strauss. (1986). Allpanchis, 18(27), 287-292. https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v18i27.1015

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