The trickster in West Africa : a study of mythic irony and sacred delight
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; and, divination and social change.
Print Book, English, cop. 1980
University of California Press, Berkeley, cop. 1980
312 p. ; 23 cm.
9780520067912, 0520067916
912388172
I. Interpreting the Trickster II. Ananse: Spinner of Ashanti Doubleness III. Legba: Master of the Fon Dialectic IV. Legba and Eshu: Writers of Destiny V. Ogo-Yurugu: Lord of the Random, Servant of Wholeness VI. Toward a Theory of the Trickster Appendix Selected Bibliography Index