Re: Trickster

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1 total messages Started by Gay Baines Thu, 16 Apr 1998 00:00

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Author: Gay Baines
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 00:00

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--- Forwarded from mailing list.  Reply to uus-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu ---

When I was taking a graduate seminar in semiotics,
one of the other students wrote her term paper on
Brer Rabbit as Trickster.

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From:   J. McRee Elrod
Sent:   Tuesday, April 14, 1998 7:14 AM
To:     UUS-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
Subject:        Re: Trickster

>Kokopelli is the name given to the Trickster in Southwest American
>native legends.  This guy is usually portrayed as a hunchback and
>playing a flute.  His liasions with women were numerous.

In Canadian west coast native society he is a raven.  Stories about him
remind one of Uncle Remus' Brother Rabbit.  Representations in art are
numerous.

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