trickster

[dk.seattle]

This message was forwarded to me by a friend who subscribes to a list 
dealing with Native American languages.  Can anyone shed some light on 
this, posting to our list for our general edification and copying to 
David Cole?  As many of you know, the archetypal trickster in American 
Indian tradition is coyote.

> Taken from nat-lang, who were talking about the indigenous american
> "trickster" and associations with personified "spider" a while back:
> 
> >Original Sender: "David Cole"  <maxwell.syr.edu!DCOLE>
> >
> >A sidebar to "trickster."  My wife is a Professor in the Anthro
> >department here at Syracuse U, and had a grad student who wrote on
> >spider-as-trickster in various regions of India.  I've tried Mosaic
> >and Gopher searches on tricksters, but nothing much turns up.
> >
> gli
> 
-Dennis King
 

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Lectureship in Hindi Language 

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