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Editorial Reviews

The New York Times Book Review, Paul Mattick
Hyde never makes it clear how he has selected his culture heroes, and in any case, apart from the first two or three, his efforts to identify them as tricksters are unconvincing.... Hyde thinks one of Trickster's lessons is the anthropologist's insight that we take for reality is often just inherited cultural categories. It is a lesson he has yet to take as seriously as it deserves. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Margaret Atwood
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art is Lewis Hyde's second masterpiece of--well, of what? Of wondering, of pertinent storytelling, pondering. Of making connections that seem both absolutely true and absolutely obvious once Hyde has made them but which we've somehow never noticed before. He's one of those quirky, eccentric Wise Children the United States sometimes throws up--a sort of Thoreau-cum-anthropologist-cum-seer, an asker of naive questions that turn out to be the reverse of naive, fascinated by why we behave the way we do, and why our right hand is often so blind to what our left hand is up to, and why it matters, especially to that elusive entity we've named the soul. Robert Bly calls Hyde a mythologist, which sort of fits, but perhaps he could also be called an illuminationist. In short, he casts light.... Hyde's book is a glorious grab bag stuffed with necessary loot, a joyful plum pudding rich in treasures. Once more, we are indebted to him. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The trickster myth derives creatives intellegence from appetite. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shin scabs, bait thief, reflected plums, bungling host, new theogony, youthful theft, shame threshold, smart luck, butter thief, mere bellies, female tricksters, absolute newness, sixteen gods, shining youth, trickster cycle, plantation culture, trickster stories, deathless gods, great archer, chance operations, double motion, eating game, immigrant child, trickster tales, untrue things

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frederick Douglass, Homeric Hymn, Monkey King, United States, Native American, Bee Maidens, Maxine Hong Kingston, West African, Large Glass, Carl Jung, Colonel Lloyd, Hermes of the Dark, John Cage, Keeper of the Herds, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Radin, Aaron Anthony, Allen Ginsberg, Gold Mountain, Golden Age, New Bedford, New York, North American, Piss Christ, Prince of Thieves

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