Lewis Hyde's Trickster Makes This World

Thomas Christensen, in a review of Lewis Hyde’s Trickster Makes This World, entitled, “This Worlds Makes Trickster,” discusses about Hyde’s book and how it analyzes the very nature of the Trickster as a mythological figure. Over the course of the review, Christensen was straight to the point on his analysis, taking note of the examples that he had found in Trickster Makes This World. Arranged in the form of six areas of interest, they are: “The Trap of Appetite,” “A Net to Catch Contingency,” “Playing in the Dirt,” “The Trap of Culture,” “Who is Trickster,” and “Fools and Folly, Clowns and Clowning, Tricks and Tricksters.” Of the six, personally, “Trap of Appetite,” “A Net to Catch Contingency,” and “Trap of Culture,” is of noteworthy interest. My conclusions on why

The fact that the characteristics of the Trickster continued to persist well after the discovery of agriculture, as Christensen later wrote, based on Hyde’s conclusions from Melville's The Confidence Man, suggested to me that such traits were never genetically bred out of humans. Instead, the traits themselves both adapted and evolved in response to the beginnings of human civilization, whose very nature continued to change over countless centuries through many advances in technology