American Tricksters - Jackson, William J.
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Tricksters are known by their deeds. Obviously not all the examples in American Tricksters are full-blown mythological tricksters like Coyote, Raven, or the Two Brothers found in Native American stories, or superhuman figures like the larger-than-life Davy Crockett of nineteenth-century tales. Newer expressions of trickiness do share some qualities with the Trickster archetype seen in myths. Rock stars who break taboos and get away with it, heroes who overcome monstrous circumstances, crafty folk who find a way to survive and thrive when the odds are against them, men making spectacles of…mehr

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Tricksters are known by their deeds. Obviously not all the examples in American Tricksters are full-blown mythological tricksters like Coyote, Raven, or the Two Brothers found in Native American stories, or superhuman figures like the larger-than-life Davy Crockett of nineteenth-century tales. Newer expressions of trickiness do share some qualities with the Trickster archetype seen in myths. Rock stars who break taboos and get away with it, heroes who overcome monstrous circumstances, crafty folk who find a way to survive and thrive when the odds are against them, men making spectacles of themselves by feeding their astounding appetites in public--all have some trickster qualities. Each person, every living creature who ever faced an obstacle and needed to get around it, has found the built-in trickster impulse. Impasses turn the trickster gene on, or stimulate the trick-performing imagination--that's life. To explore the ways and means of trickster maneuvers can alert us to pitfalls, help us appreciate tricks that are entertaining, and aid us in fending off ploys which drain our resources and ruin our lives. Knowing more about the Trickster archetype in our psyches helps us be more self-aware.
Autorenporträt
William J. Jackson, after winning a Danforth graduate school fellowship in 1975, earned his PhD from Harvard University in the comparative study of religion, which involves language study, history of religion, and exploration of literature. He was a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, and published biographies and translations of South Indian singer-saints' songs in such books as Tyagaraja--Life and Lyrics; Songs of Three Great South Indian Saints; and Vijayanagara Visions, all of which were published by Oxford University Press. In 2000 he was awarded a sabbatical fellowship at the Rockefeller Research Center in Bellagio, Italy, where he worked on Heaven's Fractal Net, a book about fractal-like geometrical patterns found in the world's cultures (published by Indiana University Press, 2004). He also published The Wisdom of Generosity, about America's history of acts of compassion and volunteerism (Baylor University Press, 2008), and American Tricksters (published by Cascade, 2015).