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Index
Title Page
Table of Contents
FOREWORD - by Michael Chabon
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE - TRAP OF NATURE
1 - SLIPPING THE TRAP OF APPETITE
THE BAIT THIEF
EATING THE ORGANS OF APPETITE
MEAT SACRIFICE
2 - “THAT’S MY WAY, COYOTE, NOT YOUR WAY”
THE BUNGLING HOST
HALLMARKS OF TRICKSTER’S MIND
3 - THE FIRST LIE
A SIGN OF YOUTHFUL THEFT
“MERE BELLIES”
“BEAUTIFUL UNTRUE THINGS”
INTERLUDE
THE LAND OF THE DEAD
COYOTE’S IMPULSE
AN OLD STORY
PART TWO - TWO-ROAD CHANCE
4 - AN ATTACK OF ACCIDENTS
5 - THE ©OD OF THE CROSSROADS
THE PALM-NUT ORACLE
PURE CHANCE
6 - THE LUCKY FIND
A GIFT OF HERMES
A NET TO CATCH CONTINGENCY
PART THREE - DIRT WORK
7 - SPEECHLESS SHAME AND SHAMELESS SPEECH
THE IMMIGRANT CHILD
SLAYER OF ARGUS
8 - MATTER OUT OF PLACE
HEAVEN’S PRIVY
DEMOCRATIC CARNIVAL
PART FOUR - TRAP OF CULTURE
9 - HERMES SLIPS THE TRAP
HERMES OF THE LIGHT, HERMES OF THE DARK
CHANCE THE RAP AND SLIP THE TRAP
10 - FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND ESHU’S HAT
ANSWERING BACK
THE COLOR LINE
11 - TRICKSTER ARTS AND WORKS OF ARTUS
GO FOR THE JOINTS
“THE ONE THEY CALL THE SEVENTH SON”
A CORRIDOR OF HUMOR
12 - PROPHECY
PLENTY
FRAGILE BEAUTY
ENVOI
ALSO BY LEWIS HYDE
LEWIS HYDE TRICKSTER MAKES THIS WORLD
APPENDIX I - THE HOMERIC HYMN TO HERMES
APPENDIX II - TRICKSTER AND GENDER
APPENDIX III - MONKEY AND THE PEACHES OF IMMORTALITY
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ART CREDITS
INDEX
Notes
Copyright Page
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