Tricksters are "the creators of culture" and "they are rhetors in the classical sense"? That's certainly close enough for my tastes. Very charming. Thanks again, Arlo.
> > [DMB] > I was wondering about the "Trickster" part and wondered if (even hoped) > Campbell was an influence. Thanks for that too. Now I have a hunch that maybe > this trickster is friends with the contrarian, even though that's a Lila > thing. > > [Arlo] > Early on, Frentz describes the trickster as "a rule-bending, humor-laced > outsider who contests rigid organizational rules without threatening the > people who uphold them." (In Chapter 13, he talks about a friend of his who > rolled for a while with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and although he > does not mention this again, the language of that movement ventriloquates > throughout the book.) > > A bit later, he adds, "Tricksters are more than mischievous misfits. Like > Prometheus and Hermes, 'tricksters are regularly honored as the creators of > culture.'... In their best moments, tricksters reveal ways of living that > excite others to thought and action. As such, they are rhetors in the > classical sense, instructing, cajoling, and challenging others to live a more > humane existence." (p.23) > > I'm not through this enough to really speak to a direct, or more elaborate, > mapping of the trickster to the contrarian, but its hard not to get some > sense of that when reading his book. It does seem, though, that his > 'trickster' aligns more with what may be 'deliberate' attempts to break > conventions than, at least in LILA's brujo example, more of an 'unintended > consequence'. > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
