AP/HUMA 3019 6.00

Cultural Transgressions: The Trickster's Creative Chaos

Through the study of selected examples of tricksters from a diverse range of cultural contexts and historical periods, this course examines the importance of cultural transgression in the chaotic process of creating culture and the centrality of the trickster figure in this process. An interdisciplinary theoretical framework sets the context for the examination of contemporary expressions of the trickster.