The Trickster in West Africa: A Study of Mythic Irony and Sacred DelightUniversity of California Press, 21 de set. 1989 - 312 pàgines 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. |
Continguts
Interpreting the Trickster | 1 |
Spinner of Ashanti Doubleness | 25 |
Master of the Fon Dialectic | 71 |
Writers of Destiny | 113 |
Lord of the Random | 164 |
Toward a Theory of the Trickster | 223 |
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Akan-Ashanti Folk-tales ambiguity Amma Amma's Ananse Ananse's anansesem animals Asase Yaa Ashanti Awè Bascom become boundaries brings contradiction cosmic cosmos create creation creative cult culture Dahomean Dahomey dance death discloses disorder divinatory Dogon earth Eliade embodies Eshu Eshu-Elegba Eshu's experience female figure forces Gbadu gives gods Griaule Griaule and Dieterlen Hate-to-be-contradicted Herskovits hidden human sexuality human world Ibid Ifa Divination imagination inner insist intercourse irony Jung Kaguru language Legba Lévi-Strauss liminal lives magic Makarius male Mawu Mawu-Lisa Mawu's meaning mediation Morton-Williams mother movement myth mythic mythology Ndembu Nommo Nyame Nyame's Oduduwa Ogboni Ogo-Yurugu Ogo's Olodumare Olorun orisha Orunmila passage pattern placenta play potency primordial Rattray reality relationship religion religious Renard pâle reveals Ricketts ritual sacred sacrifice sexual Shango shape social order society story structure symbol tion transcendent transformation trick trickster twin West African whole word Yoruba Yurugu