Author: Robert D. Pelton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520067912
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
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.
The Trickster in West Africa
Author: Robert D. Pelton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520067912
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520067912
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
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.
West African Trickster Tales
Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192741721
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This lively collection comes from West Africa, a place "where stories grow on trees." Here are the famous tricksters: Hare, Tortoise, and the greatest of them all--Ananse the spider. The stories are full of larger-than-life characters and situations, and include the tale of how Ananse got his thin waist, how Crocodile learnt his lesson, and how Monkey managed not to get eaten by Shark.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192741721
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This lively collection comes from West Africa, a place "where stories grow on trees." Here are the famous tricksters: Hare, Tortoise, and the greatest of them all--Ananse the spider. The stories are full of larger-than-life characters and situations, and include the tale of how Ananse got his thin waist, how Crocodile learnt his lesson, and how Monkey managed not to get eaten by Shark.
The Trickster in West Africa
Author: Robert D. Pelton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520341481
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980. 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 th
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520341481
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980. 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 th
Zomo the Rabbit
Author: Gerald McDermott
Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780152010119
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.
Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780152010119
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.
Trickster Makes This World
Author: Lewis Hyde
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429930837
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World—authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style—has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism. This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429930837
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World—authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style—has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism. This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.
Zomo the Rabbit
Yoruba Trickster Tales
Author: Oyekan Owomoyela
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803286115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A collection of twenty-three tales involving Aj'ap'a, a tortoise with human traits who has relationships with an assortment of animal and human characters
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803286115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A collection of twenty-three tales involving Aj'ap'a, a tortoise with human traits who has relationships with an assortment of animal and human characters
ZOMO THE RABBIT(T:1포함)(ZZSC00080)
Author: Gerald McDermott
Publisher: SCHOLASTIC
ISBN: 9780590489478
Category : Big books
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.
Publisher: SCHOLASTIC
ISBN: 9780590489478
Category : Big books
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.
Ananse and the Lizard
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805064766
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Ananse the spider thinks he will marry the daughter of the village chief, but instead he is outsmarted by Lizard.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805064766
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Ananse the spider thinks he will marry the daughter of the village chief, but instead he is outsmarted by Lizard.
Jabuti the Tortoise
Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0152053743
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
A rain forest fable from Caldecott medalist Gerald McDermott
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0152053743
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
A rain forest fable from Caldecott medalist Gerald McDermott