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American Indian Trickster Tales

Author : Richard Erdoes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101174064
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book American Indian Trickster Tales written by Richard Erdoes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it's the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble wherever he goes. This figure shows up time and again in Native American folklore, where he takes many forms, from the irascible Coyote of the Southwest, to Iktomi, the amorphous spider man of the Lakota tribe. This dazzling collection of American Indian trickster tales, compiled by an eminent anthropologist and a master storyteller, serves as the perfect companion to their previous masterwork, American Indian Myths and Legends. American Indian Trickster Tales includes more than one hundred stories from sixty tribes--many recorded from living storytellers—which are illustrated with lively and evocative drawings. These entertaining tales can be read aloud and enjoyed by readers of any age, and will entrance folklorists, anthropologists, lovers of Native American literature, and fans of both Joseph Campbell and the Brothers Grimm.

The Trickster: A Study In American Indian Mythology

Author : Paul Radin
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178625722X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Trickster: A Study In American Indian Mythology written by Paul Radin and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myth of the Trickster—ambiguous creator and destroyer, cheater and cheated, subhuman and superhuman—is one of the earliest and most universal expressions of mankind. Nowhere does it survive in more starkly archaic form than in the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebago Trickster Cycle, recorded here in full. Anthropological and psychological analyses by Radin, Kerényi, and Jung reveal the Trickster as filling a twofold role: on the one hand he is “an archetypal psychic structure” that harks back to “an absolutely undifferentiated human consciousness, corresponding to a psyche that has hardly left the animal level” (Jung); on the other hand, his myth is a present-day outlet for the most unashamed and liberating satire of the onerous obligations of social order, religion, and ritual.

Folklore of the Winnebago Tribe

Author : David Lee Smith
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806129761
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Folklore of the Winnebago Tribe written by David Lee Smith and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated collection of tales from the Winnebago people, drawn from the Smithsonian Institution among other sources, ranges from creation myths to trickster stories to myths and legends about the history of the tribe

Sources and Analogues of the Uncle Remus Tales

Author : Florence E. Baer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Sources and Analogues of the Uncle Remus Tales written by Florence E. Baer and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yoruba Trickster Tales

Author : Oyekan Owomoyela
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803286115
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Yoruba Trickster Tales written by Oyekan Owomoyela and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-three tales involving Aj'ap'a, a tortoise with human traits who has relationships with an assortment of animal and human characters

Son of a Trickster

Author : Eden Robinson
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0345810805
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Son of a Trickster written by Eden Robinson and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize: With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Fellowship, blends humour with heartbreak in this compelling coming-of-age novel. Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics, and cannibalistic river otters . . . The exciting first novel in her trickster trilogy. Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer (he calls her Baby)--and now she's dead. Jared can't count on his mom to stay sober and stick around to take care of him. He can't rely on his dad to pay the bills and support his new wife and step-daughter. Jared is only sixteen but feels like he is the one who must stabilize his family's life, even look out for his elderly neighbours. But he struggles to keep everything afloat...and sometimes he blacks out. And he puzzles over why his maternal grandmother has never liked him, why she says he's the son of a trickster, that he isn't human. Mind you, ravens speak to him--even when he's not stoned. You think you know Jared, but you don't.

Reachable Stars

Author : George E. Lankford
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081735428X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Reachable Stars written by George E. Lankford and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007-08-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lankford's volume focuses on the ancient North Americans and the ways they identified, patterned, ordered, and used the stars to light their culture and illuminate their traditions.

The Trickster Shift

Author : Allan J. Ryan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295978161
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book The Trickster Shift written by Allan J. Ryan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trickster Shift not only presents some of the most stunningly original examples of contemporary Native art but also allows the artists to offer their own insights into the creative process and the nature of Native humour.

Omaha Tribal Myths and Trickster Tales

Author : Roger L. Welsch
Publisher : Swallow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Omaha Tribal Myths and Trickster Tales written by Roger L. Welsch and published by Swallow Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects more than seventy tribal stories of the Omaha Indians, many of them about Trickster in his guises of Rabbit, Ictinike, and Coyote.

Living Sideways

Author : Franchot Ballinger
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806137964
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Living Sideways written by Franchot Ballinger and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native American tricksters can be buffoons, transformers, social critics, teachers, and mediators between human beings, nature, and the gods. A vibrant part of American Indian tradition, the trickster has shown a remarkable ability to adapt into the twenty-first century. In Living Sideways, Franchot Ballinger provides the first full-length study of the diverse roles and dimensions of North American Indian tricksters. While honoring their diversity and complexity, he challenges stereotypical Euro-American treatments of tricksters. Drawing from the most influential scholarship on Native American tricksters, Ballinger shows how many critics have failed to consider both the specifics of trickster stories and their cultural contexts. Each chapter concentrates on a particular aspect of the trickster theme, such as the trickster’s ambiguous personality, the variety of trickster roles, and the trickster’s role as social critic. Ballinger further considers issues of sex, gender, and humor, the use of trickster tales as instructions on social values and community control, and the trickster as an emblem of modern Indian survival. Living Sideways also includes illustrative trickster stories at the end of each chapter, a comprehensive bibliography, and discussion of the literary aspects of tricksters. Examining both the sacred power of tricksters and the stories as literature, Living Sideways is the most thorough book to date on Native American tricksters.

Year Book of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee

Author : Milwaukee Public Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Year Book of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee written by Milwaukee Public Museum and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Huron-Wendat

Author : Georges E. Sioui
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774807159
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Huron-Wendat written by Georges E. Sioui and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Georges Sioui, who is himself Wendat, redeems theoriginal name of his people and tells their centuries-old history bydescribing their social ideas and philosophy and the relevance of bothto contemporary life. The question he poses is a simple one: aftercenturies of European and then other North American contact andinterpretation, isn’t it now time to return to the originalsources, that is to the ideas and practices of indigenous peoples likethe Wendats, as told and interpreted by indigenous people like himself?

Native American and Chicano/a Literature of the American Southwest

Author : Christina M. Hebebrand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135933472
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Native American and Chicano/a Literature of the American Southwest written by Christina M. Hebebrand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies Native American and Chicano/a writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant Euro-American culture.

Storytelling Tips and Tales

Author : Mark Pierce
Publisher : Good Year Books
ISBN 13 : 1596473312
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Storytelling Tips and Tales written by Mark Pierce and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seasoned storyteller helps teachers use stories to capture students' attention and expose them to 13 folk and fairy tales from around the world. The guide addresses everything a beginner needs to know, including how to warm up the audience, start and end a story, and assure audience involvement. Follow-up activities for each tale incorporate subjects such as creative writing, art, drama, math, science, geography, and history. Grades K-5. Suggested resources. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 117 pages.

Dialogues with a Trickster

Author : Phillip McArthur
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824898761
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Dialogues with a Trickster written by Phillip McArthur and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2024-10-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We joked often—laughed to the point of crying (that deep visceral laughter)—not just about the subversive antics of Letao, but to all the allusions to how he, my friend, and I, were tricksters in our own right, moving between our cultural worlds, illuminating ambiguities and celebrating them.” This rich, experimental ethnography plays within the margins of mythology and ethnographic practice to pursue a decolonizing method of inquiry and intercultural engagement. Through a range of mischievous narratives about the mythological trickster Letao, a riM̧ajeļ (Indigenous Marshall Islander) storyteller takes the author on a journey into a deep cosmological and epistemological past and back into the colonial and imperial present. Transcribed in this book, the simultaneously effortless and pointedly deliberate conversations between author Phillip H. McArthur and respected riM̧ajeļ elder Kometo Albōt subvert and dismantle boundaries of time, culture, and religion. Through lighthearted dialogue, Kometo explores serious histories of imperial abuse, war, atomic bomb testing, ideologies of social power, decolonization, Christianity, magic, sex, and death. He plays upon a range of ambiguities such as the slipperiness of mythic discourse, ethnographic entanglements, ambivalent analogies about Americans, cosmological musings about Western and Indigenous deities, the complexities of matrilineal kinship and modern manifestations of power, the interplay of magic within politics and religion, the social efficacy of ideologies of deception and revelation through divination, the way by which risky topics and profane stories bring the sacred into relief, and prophecies that presage the end of culture and the death of the trickster. In this way of relating, the boundaries blur between ethnographer and subject and the theories of myth and folklore—all become part of the dialogic process. The author critically attends to his positionality, as well as to how Kometo slyly positions them through his jokes and in drawing the author into trickster mythologies. Written in a narrative style that combines transcribed dialogue, poetic ethnographic descriptions, applied theory and sharp analysis, and storytelling, this book grants us insight into a decade-long friendship and honors the wisdom of a trickster.

Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg

Author : Marty Crump
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022611614X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg written by Marty Crump and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From celebrated herpetologist and science writer Marty Crump, a beautifully illustrated exploration of the interlinked stories of herp folklore, natural history, and conservation. Frogs are worshipped for bringing nourishing rains, but blamed for devastating floods. Turtles are admired for their wisdom and longevity, but ridiculed for their sluggish and cowardly behavior. Snakes are respected for their ability to heal and restore life, but despised as symbols of evil. Lizards are revered as beneficent guardian spirits, but feared as the Devil himself. In this ode to toads and snakes, newts and tuatara, crocodiles and tortoises, herpetologist and science writer Marty Crump explores folklore across the world and throughout time. From creation myths to trickster tales; from associations with fertility and rebirth to fire and rain; and from the use of herps in folk medicines and magic, as food, pets, and gods, to their roles in literature, visual art, music, and dance, Crump reveals both our love and hatred of amphibians and reptiles—and their perceived power. In a world where we keep home terrariums at the same time that we battle invasive cane toads, and where public attitudes often dictate that the cute and cuddly receive conservation priority over the slimy and venomous, she shows how our complex and conflicting perceptions threaten the conservation of these ecologically vital animals. Sumptuously illustrated, Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder’s Fork and Lizard’s Leg is a beautiful and enthralling brew of natural history and folklore, sobering science and humor, that leaves us with one irrefutable lesson: love herps. Warts, scales, and all.

Billy Watson's Croker Sack

Author : Franklin Burroughs
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820319995
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Billy Watson's Croker Sack written by Franklin Burroughs and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In South Carolina, a croker sack is any big cloth sack. When opened, it sometimes reveals more than expected, as do these deceptively simple narratives about fishing trips, flora and fauna, and memories of the past. Observing a snapping turtle, recounting the old age and death of a hunting dog, or talking with neighbors who shot a moose and hung it in their garage, Franklin Burroughs reflects on how human and natural histories interconnect. His writing is clear and still as a pond, and his distinctive and evocative voice resonates through the details.