The other within
Subtitle: the genius of deformity in myth, culture & psyche
By: Daniel Deardorff.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781556437601
Subjects: Body, Human -- Folklore; Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects; Abnormalities, Human; Marginality, Social; Tricksters; Archetype (Psychology)
Genres: Folklore.
Description: "Explains how innovations generated within societal and psychic margins ironically benefit the very ones who deny and exclude the so-called misfit and delineates the creation of 'otherness'"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Originally published: Ashland, OR : White Cloud Press, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.