{"product_id":"the-jealous-potter-9780226474823","title":"The Jealous Potter","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs Lvi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas  with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore  tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud  Saussure  \"signification \" and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Lvi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism.  \"Electrifying. . . . A brilliant demonstration of structural analysis in action. . . . Can be read with pleasure and profit by anyone interested in that aspect of self-discovery that comes through knowledge of the universal and timeless myths that live on in all of us.\"Jonathan Sharp  San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle  \"A characteristic tour de force. . . . One remains awed by him.\"Colin Thubron  Sunday Times  \"With all its epistemological depth  the book reads at times like a Simenon or a Lewis Carroll  fusing concise methodology with mastery of style.\"Bernadette Bucher  American Ethnologist  \"An engagingly provocative exploration of mythology in the Americas. . . . Always a good read.\"Choice  \"A playful  highly entertaining book  fluently and elegantly translated by Bndicte Chorier.\"Wendy Doniger OFlaherty  New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647068069941,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226474828","price":25.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226474823.jpg?v=1781687454","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-jealous-potter-9780226474823","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}