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The Crime of Manabozo
Author(s) -
MAKARIUS LAURA
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1973.75.3.02a00020
Subject(s) - trickster , taboo , mythology , brother , power (physics) , order (exchange) , criminology , symbol (formal) , genealogy , history , literature , art , sociology , philosophy , anthropology , linguistics , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , economics
On the explanation here given of the nature of the trickster, as the projection in myth of the magical violator of taboo, the contradictory features he presents may be elucidated one by one. A secondary feature, hitherto ignored in the Algonkin trickster myth—namely, Manabozo's brother's death—is shown to conceal the ritual murder of a near‐kinsman committed in order to obtain magical power for the benefit of the group.