Trickster Makes This World
Subtitle: Mischief, Myth, & Art
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: February 16, 1999
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780865475366
Subjects: Sociology; Fiction; Folklore & Mythology - Mythology; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology; Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
First sentence: The trickster myth derives creative intelligence from appetite.
Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations
pagenum: lx; title: Introduction
pagenum: 3; label: Part One: Trap of Nature; label: 1:
title: Slipping the Trap of Appetite
pagenum: 17; label: 2:
title: "That's My Way, Coyote, Not Your Way"
pagenum: 39; label: 3:
title: The First Lie
pagenum: 55; label: Interlude; title: The Land of the Dead
pagenum: 83; label: Part Two: Two-Road Change; label: 4:
title: An Attack of Accidents
pagenum: 95; label: 5:
title: The God of the Crossroads
pagenum: 108; label: 6:
title: The Lucky Find
pagenum: 128; label: Part Three: Dirt Work; label: 7:
title: Speechless Shame and Shameless Speech
pagenum: 153; label: 8:
title: Matter Out of Place
pagenum: 173; label: Part Four: Trap of Culture; label: 9:
title: Hermes Slips the Trap
pagenum: 203; label: 10:
title: Frederick Douglass and Eshu's Hat
pagenum: 226; label: 11:
title: Trickster Arts and Works of Artus
pagenum: 252; label: Conclusion; label: 12:
title: Prophecy
pagenum: 283; title: Envoi
pagenum: 313; label: Appendix I.
title: The Homeric Hymn to Hermes
pagenum: 317; label: Appendix II.
title: Trickster and Gender
pagenum: 335; label: Appendix III.
title: Monkey and the Peaches of Immortality
pagenum: 347; title: Notes
pagenum: 355; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 389; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 401; title: Art credits
pagenum: 403; title: Index
pagenum: 405