Series: Misc
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0874834503
Publisher: August House
Price: $18.95
Reader Rating: Not rated
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0874834503
Publisher: August House
Price: $18.95
Reader Rating: Not rated
Description: People of all ages love to watch Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote - even Bart Simpson and Ace Ventura. But these contemporary characters have roots in the most ancient of cultures. The trickster is a universal archetype, found in every culture: Anansi among the African people, Coyote in the American Southwest, Raven in the Pacific Northwest, Brer Rabbit in the American South, the leprechaun in Ireland, Fox in South America.
Josepha Sherman has collected forty stories of tricksters from around the globe. Sometimes human, sometimes animal, most often male (but occasionally female, as Sherman demonstrates), the trickster is like a force of nature, an Id unchecked by Superego. He is the sort of being who says, while acting on impulse, "What happens if I do this? What will happen next?"
These stories come from forty world cultures, including ancient Babylonia, Botswana, China, India, Eastern Europe, Morocco, Central and South America, and the Creole, African-American, Algonquin, Apache, and Blackfoot peoples of North America.
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