Dialogues with a trickster : on the margins of myth and ethnography in the Marshall Islands /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2024]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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.