The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology - 9781138312142

Taylor & Francis

The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: TricksterologyAuthor(s): Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138312142, 978-1138312142\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a new approach to the problem of evil through an examination of the anthropological figure of the trickster. A lesser known and much more recent term than evil, the authors use the trickster to facilitate a greater understanding of the return of evil in the modern era. Instead of simply opposing good and evil, the figure of the trickster is used to pursue the trajectories of similarities and quasi-similarities through imitation.\n\nAfter engaging with the trickster as presented in comparative anthropology and mythology, where it appears in tales and legends as a strange, erratic outsider, the authors seek to gain an inside perspective of trickster knowledge through an examination of mythology and the classical world, inclu.