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Language: en
Pages: 244
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-08 - Publisher: BRILL
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Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04 - Publisher: NYU Press
Profiles the most notorious mischief makers in Western culture from 1600 to the present day and explores how pranks are part of a long tradition of speaking tru
Language: en
Pages: 366
Pages: 366
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: NYU Press
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Language: en
Pages: 393
Pages: 393
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-23 - Publisher: Springer
This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino