Trickster: An Anthropological Memoir

Type

Book

Authors

Kane, Eileen

ISBN 10

1442601779

ISBN 13

9781442601772

Tags

Memoirs, Social Scientists & Psychologists, Native American Studies, Cultural

Description

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.

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