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The trickster appears in the myths and folktales of nearly every traditional society. Robert Pelton examines Ashanti, Fon, Yoruba, and Dogon trickster-figures in their social and mythical contexts and in light of contemporary thought, exploring the way the trickster links animality and ritual transformation; culture, sex, and laughter; cosmic process and personal history; divination and social change.
Price: $31.95
Pages: 324
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions
Publication Date:
21 September 1989
Trim Size: 8.12 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780520067912
Format: Paperback
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Robert D. Pelton is a Roman Catholic priest, a member of Madonna House Apostolate.
I. Interpreting the Trickster
II. Ananse: Spinner of Ashanti Doubleness
III. Legba: Master of the Fon Dialectic
IV. Legba and Eshu: Writers of Destiny
V. Ogo-Yurugu: Lord of the Random, Servant of Wholeness
VI. Toward a Theory of the Trickster
Appendix
Selected Bibliography
Index
II. Ananse: Spinner of Ashanti Doubleness
III. Legba: Master of the Fon Dialectic
IV. Legba and Eshu: Writers of Destiny
V. Ogo-Yurugu: Lord of the Random, Servant of Wholeness
VI. Toward a Theory of the Trickster
Appendix
Selected Bibliography
Index