The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology (Paperback, 1)

IntroductionPart 1: Presenting the Trickster 1. The Trickster in Anthropology: The Figure as seen from the Outside2. Techniques of Trickster Entrapment: The Nets of Spiders and Magicians3. Hermes the Trickster and the Kabeiroi: Moving Towards Evil4. Plato’s Theaetetus: The Sophists and Secret Trickster Knowledge5. Vedic Tricksterology: Tricking the Body into Self-DestructionPart 2: Tracking Trickster Traces: Evil Machinations 6. Prehistoric Trickster: Archaic Outlines of Evil7. The Troglodytes: Evil Protoscientific Methods for Transformation8. Monsters: Creatures of the Flux9. Evil Alchemy: The Incommensurable Concluding Comments: On Methodology in Tricksterology