An edition of Trickster (2010)

Trickster

an anthropological memoir

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Trickster
Eileen Kane
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An edition of Trickster (2010)

Trickster

an anthropological memoir

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"A young trainee anthropologist leaves her violent Mafia-run hometown--Youngstown, Ohio--to study an "exotic" group, the Paiute Indians of Nevada. This is 1964; she'll be "the expert," and they?ll be "the subjects." The Paiute elders have other ideas. They'll be "the parents." They set themselves two tasks: to help her get a good grade on her project and to send her home quickly to her new bridegroom. They dismiss her research topic and introduce her instead to their spirit creature, the outrageously mischievous rule-breaking trickster, Coyote.

Why do the Paiutes love Coyote? Why do Youngstown mill workers vote for Mafia candidates for municipal office? Tricksters become key to understanding how oppressed groups function in a hostile world."--pub. desc.

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Trickster: an anthropological memoir
2010, University of Toronto Press, University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
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Table of Contents

Vows
At home on the range
The Kah' nii
Missing bomb city
Anthropology : a mirror for man
Two Italian towns
Not worrying
The tribal council
Why anthropology?
Crossing boundaries
The murder
Drawing lessons
Kinship patterns
Game-playing
Two-thirds of the way
Who we are
The rabbit net
Ethnobabble
Ruin...
...and reprieve
The killer
The mission
The parting.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references: p. 245-248.

Includes some text in Paiute.

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Toronto

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
301.092
Library of Congress
GN21.K27 A3 2010, GN21

The Physical Object

Pagination
248 p. :
Number of pages
248

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25213888M
ISBN 10
1442601779, 1442601787
ISBN 13
9781442601772, 9781442601789
LCCN
2011534452
OCLC/WorldCat
643662081

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