Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

List of Illustrations Introduction Part One: Trap of Nature 1: Slipping the Trap of Appetite 2: "That's My Way, Coyote, Not Your Way" 3: The First Lie Interlude The Land of the Dead Part Two: Two-Road Chance 4: An Attack of Accidents 5: The God of the Crossroads 6: The Lucky Find Part Three: Dirt Work 7: Speechless Shame and Shameless Speech 8: Matter Out of Place Part Four: Trap of Culture 9: Hermes Slips the Trap 10: Frederick Douglass and Eshu's Hat 11: Trickster Arts and Works of Artus Conclusion 12: Prophecy Envoi Appendix I. The Homeric Hymns to Hermes Appendix II. Trickster and Gender Appendix III. Monkey and t he Peaches of Immortality Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Art credits Index