Living sideways : tricksters in American Indian oral traditions /
"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, Fr...
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- On scholars and wandering
- A trickster by any other name
- Living sideways: social relations in trickster stories
- Coyote, he/she was going there: sex and gender in trickster stories
- Blood kin: trickster, hero, clown
- The world as it is.