The Trickster in West Africa
Robert D. Pelton
University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Religion/Theologie
Beschreibung
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 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
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african religions, fon, trickster figure, myth analysis, tribal stories, humor, folk tales, religious history, ritual transformation, personalized history, africa, traditional society, ashanti, mythological figures, hermeneutics, social contexts, comparative religion, yoruba, mythology, west africa, folklore, african studies, african culture, dogon, ethnicity and religion, sex, social change, mythic irony, animality, sacred figures, cosmology, contemporary scholars, mythical contexts