Peter Wogan
Eileen Kane is a fantastic writer—in fact, one of the best I've ever seen in anthropology, past or present. She keeps the story moving briskly, she has a novelist's eye for detail, and she renders perfect dialogue, which as Anne Lamont says, is the way to convey character. She's one of those rare anthropologists who can tell a great story while imparting cultural understanding. I hope she continues to tell stories. Anthropology needs a voice like hers.
Louis S. Warren
A must read for every scholar who aspires to bring intellectual work to bear on the problems of real people and their communities.
Liam D. Murphy
Kane avoids stilted ethnographic prose and instead revels in a self-effacing, first-person narrative that is richly textured, beautifully written, moving, and hilarious—precisely the kind of yarn that grabs and holds the attention of students and seasoned anthropologists alike.
— Liam D. Murphy, California State University, Sacramento
From the Publisher
A real page turner. Kane has turned her first fieldwork experience into an engaging 'Margaret Mead meets Tony Hillerman' narrative, with vivid characters, many tricksters, and even a mysterious death.
Trickster... should become essential reading for young anthropologists, if only because of its ruminations about the discipline as theory and praxis.
Kane avoids stilted ethnographic prose and instead revels in a self-effacing, first-person narrative that is richly textured, beautifully written, moving, and hilarious—precisely the kind of yarn that grabs and holds the attention of students and seasoned anthropologists alike.
Louise Lamphere
A real page turner. Kane has turned her first fieldwork experience into an engaging 'Margaret Mead meets Tony Hillerman' narrative, with vivid characters, many tricksters, and even a mysterious death.
— Louise Lamphere, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of New Mexico and past president of the American Anthropological Association
Michael Hittman
Trickster... should become essential reading for young anthropologists, if only because of its ruminations about the discipline as theory and praxis.
— Michael Hittman, Long Island University
