Dialogues with a trickster : on the margins of myth and ethnography in the Marshall Islands /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McArthur, Phillip H. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2024]
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: ethnographic sorrow
  • In the grip of a trickster: mythic (w)holes and ethnographic entanglements
  • Narrative tricks: paying with a sense of "truthiness" and ambivalent analogies
  • Dialogic riddling: cosmological musings and the kinship of power
  • Hide-and-seek: the social ideologies of deception and revelations
  • A trickster's tropes: magic on the margins of political power and Christianity
  • Dirty and dangerous tricks: taking dialogic risks
  • Portending death: life-affirming laughter and the telltale sign of the trickster
  • Ethnographic exit.