Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde
Mischief, Myth, and Art
A cross-cultural exploration of the trickster archetype, showing how mischievous boundary-crossers unsettle norms, open closed systems, and catalyze creativity and social change. Blending myth, anthropology, and modern art, it traces tactics like lying, theft, and shapeshifting as engines of innovation that challenge property, purity, and hierarchy, arguing that such disruptions are both necessary and risky in renewing culture.
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- Published
- 1998
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 430-480
- Original Language
- English
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