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Le lièvre et l'araignée dans les contes de l'Ouest africain / par Marcelle Colardelle-Diarrassouba ; préf. de Bernard Dadié.

Text

Paris : Union générale d'éditions, c1975.

1975

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The Guizer : a book of fools / [compiled by] Alan Garner.

Text

London : Hamilton, 1975.

1975

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Giving birth to Thunder, sleeping with his daughter : coyote builds North America / Barry Holstun Lopez.

Text

Kansas City : Sheed Andrews and McMeel, [1977]

1977

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Omaha Indian myths and trickster tales / Roger Welsch.

Text

Chicago : Swallow Press ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [1981]

1981

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The trickster in West Africa : a study of mythic irony and sacred delight / Robert D. Pelton.

Text

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1980.

1980

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Elderberry flute song : contemporary coyote tales / by Peter Blue Cloud ; illustrated by Bill Crosby.

Text

Trumansburg, N.Y. : Crossing Press, c1982.

1982

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Il demiurgo trasgressivo : studio sul trickster / Silvana Miceli.

Text

Palermo : Sellerio, c1984.

1984

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The Irish trickster / Alan Harrison.

Text

Sheffield England : Sheffield Academic Press for the Folklore Society, c1989.

1989

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Hershel and the Hanukkah goblins / Eric Kimmel ; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.

Text

New York : Holiday House, [1989]

1989-1989

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Lon Po Po : a Red-Riding Hood story from China / translated and illustrated by Ed Young.

Text

New York : Philomel Books, [1989]

1989

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Um mito bem brasileiro : estudo antropológico sobre o Saci / Renato da Silva Queiroz.

Text

São Paulo, SP : Editora Polis, 1987.

1987

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Semiosis, marginal signs and trickster : a dagger of the mind / C.W. Spinks Jr.

Text

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1991.

1991

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Mythical trickster figures : contours, contexts, and criticisms / edited by William J. Hynes & William G. Doty.

Text

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1993.

1993

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Ewe comic heroes : trickster tales in Togo / Zinta Konrad.

Text

New York : Garland Pub., 1994.

1994

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Der Kulturheros-Trickster der Winnebago und seine Stellung zu vergleichbaren Gestalten in den oralen Traditionen nordamerikanischer Indianer : eine Kritik an der Kulturheros-Trickster-Konzeption Paul Radins / Wolfgang Stein.

Text

Bonn : Holos, 1993.

1993

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Histoires de Ch'ha : ou Jehâ ou Johâ ou Goha, le plus fou d'entre les fous, le plus sage, le plus rusé, le plus naïf, le plus sot et le plus intelligent, l'unique, le seul menteur qui ne dit que la vérité / André Nahum ; illustrations, Anne-Victoire L'Hrar.

Text

Paris : Bibliophane, c1986.

1986

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West African trickster tales / retold by Martin Bennett.

Text

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

1994

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Folk poetics : a sociosemiotic study of Yoruba trickster tales / Ropo Sekoni.

Text

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.

1994

1 item

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The trickster / Muriel Gray.

Text

New York : Doubleday, c1995.

1995-1994

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Trickster in the land of dreams / Zeese Papanikolas.

Text

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1995.

1995

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Heyoka : Die Contraries und Clowns der Plainsindianer / John Plant.

Text

Wyk auf Foehr, Germany : Verlag Für Amerikanistik, 1994.

1994

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Iktomi and the buzzard : a Plains Indian story / retold and illustrated by Paul Goble.

Text

New York : Orchard Books, c1994.

1994

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Als die Tiere noch Menschen waren : Urzeit- und Trickstergeschichten der Damara und Nama in Namibia / Sigrid Schmidt.

Text

Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, c1995.

1995

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Mercury rising : women, evil, and the trickster gods / Deldon Anne McNeely.

Text

Woodstock, Conn. : Spring Publications, 1996.

1996

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Hotline healers : an Almost Browne novel / Gerald Vizenor.

Text

Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England [for] Wesleyan University Press, c1997.

1997

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Yoruba trickster tales / Oyekan Owomoyela.

Text

Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c1997.

1997

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An anthology of myths, legends, and folktales from Cameroon : storytelling in Africa / Emmanuel Matateyou.

Text

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c1997.

1997

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Trickster makes this world : mischief, myth, and art / Lewis Hyde.

Text

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

1998

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An anthology of myths, legends, and folktales from Cameroon : storytelling in Africa / Emmanuel Matateyou.

Text

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c1997.

1997

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Artistry in Native American myths / Karl Kroeber.

Text

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1998.

1998

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Clowns & tricksters : an encyclopedia of tradition and culture / Kimberly A. Christen.

Text

Denver, Colo. : ABC-CLIO, c1998.

1998

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Blood of the monster : the Nez Perce coyote cycle / Deward E. Walker, Jr., in collaboration with Daniel N. Matthews; illustrations by Marc Seahmer.

Text

[Worland, Wyo.] : High Plains Publishing Company, c1994.

1994

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Trickery and social values in the oral and written literature of Cameroon / Karen Ruth King Keim.

Text

1986.

1986

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Verführer, Schurken, Magier / Ulrich Müller, Werner Wunderlich (Hg.).

Text

St. Gallen : UVK, Fachverlerlag für Wissenschaft und Studium, c2001.

2001

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The arts of deception : playing with fraud in the age of Barnum / James W. Cook.

Text

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.

2001

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Harold of Orange [videorecording] / Film in the Cities ; screenplay, Gerald Vizenor ; producer, Dianne Brennan ; director, Richard Weise.

Moving image

St. Paul, Minn. : Film in the Cities, [1989?]

1989-1984

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Tricksters, monsters and clever girls : African folktales--Texts and discussions / Sigrid Schmidt.

Text

KÖln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2001.

2001

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Tortoise the cheat / George Ogunleye.

Text

Abeokuta : Faith Unity Press, 2001.

2001

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Shattering frames : transgressions and transformations in anthropological discourse and practice / Klaus-Peter Köpping.

Text

Berlin : Reimer, 2002.

2002

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Living sideways : tricksters in American Indian oral traditions / Franchot Ballinger.

Text

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2004.

2004

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In favor of deceit : a study of tricksters in an Amazonian society / Ellen B. Basso.

Text

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1987.

1987

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Please, Malese! : a trickster tale from Haiti / by Amy MacDonald ; pictures by Emily Lisker.

Text

New York : Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

2002

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The Origin of the Crown Dance [videorecording] : an Apache narrative ; Ba'ts'oosee, an Apache trickster cycle / with Rudolph Kane ; Catherine Davenport, translator ; Larry Evers, producer ; Denny Carr, director ; in cooperation with the University of Arizona, Radio-TV-Film Bureau.

Moving image

New York, NY : Norman Ross Pub., [distributor, 198-?], c 1978.

1981-1978

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The female trickster : the mask that reveals : post-Jungian and postmodern psychological perspectives on women in contemporary culture / Ricki Stefanie Tannen.

Text

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

2007

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Animal tales told in the Gullah dialect (I) [sound recording] / by Albert H. Stoddard of Savannah, Georgia ; edited by Duncan B.M. Emrich.

Audio

Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Division of Music Recording Laboratory, [1955]

1955-1949

2 items

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FormatAudioCall number*LRX 9286 (CF) [Notes]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Animal tales told in the Gullah dialect. (II) [sound recording] / by Albert H. Stoddard of Savannah, Georgia ; edited by Duncan B.M. Emrich.

Audio

Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Division of Music Recording Laboratory, [1955]

1955-1949

2 items

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Indigenous storywork : educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit / Jo-Ann Archibald (Q'um Q'um Xiiem).

Text

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2008.

2008

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Der Trickster Nordamerikas im Vergleich mit dem christlichen Sündenkatalog / Gilbert Rüegg.

Text

Berlin : Uni-Edition, [2007]

2007

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Trickster tales from prairie lodgefires / collected by Bernice G. Anderson ; illustrated by Frank Gee.

Text

Nashville : Abingdon, c1979.

1979

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That tricky Coyote! / retold and illustrated by Gretchen Will Mayo.

Text

New York : Walker and Co., c1993.

1993

1 item

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