The Fire of the Jaguar

by Terence Turner

Not since Clifford Geertz's "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" has the publication of an anthropological analysis been as eagerly awaited as this book, Terence S. Turner's The Fire of the Jaguar. His reanalysis of the famous myth from the Kayapo people of Brazil was anticipated as an exemplar of a new, dynamic, materialist, action-oriented structuralism, one very different from the kind made famous by Claude L vi-Strauss. But the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0997367547
• ISBN13: 9780997367546
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Hau
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.7"