Product Description: "The Origin of Table Manners is the third volume of a tetralogy devoted to American Indian mythology. Unlike the first two volumes (The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes), which are devoted to South American myths, the present one establishes relations with North America, which is the subject of the fourth (The Naked Man)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Analyzes the myths concerning cooked food, the seasons, water, the stars, and other subjects in the culture of the Bororo Indians of Brazil (view table of contents)

Discusses the significance of totemism among primitive peoples and its interpretation by anthropologists and philosophies