The fire of the jaguar

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