Kaleidoscope of Culture 5/8

Karey Pohn

5 min

A Trickster Tour

Bert as Hermes

The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes" catalogs Hermes's antics.

Mary Poppins—Disney’s Most Spectacular Trickstar

Karey Pohn

5 min

A Trickster Tour

Mary Poppins—Disney’s Most Spectacular Trickstar

As was just mentioned, most tricksters are male and thus Jurich (1998) proposes a female version of the trickster who she calls the tricksta

Karey Pohn

10 min

A Trickster Tour

A Bit of Background on the Trickster

In less rational times, trickster tales were considered sacred, because they describe the world and are often creation stories.

Karey Pohn

2 min

A Trickster Tour

Tricksters in a Nutshell

First of all, as tricksters are ultimately indefinable, they evade description. Don’t take my word for it, Hynes (1993)

Karey Pohn

3 min

Excursion into Liminality

The Creative Power of Chaotic Times

While some may see liminality in terms of chaos, others see the creative potential of this chaos.

Liminality Plays Throughout in Mary Poppins

Karey Pohn

3 min

Excursion into Liminality

Liminality Plays Throughout in Mary Poppins

In Mary Poppins, we see this leveling process alluded to in the chimney sweep scene when all are covered in soot.

Turner’s Topic Mirrors the Turbulent Times

Karey Pohn

4 min

Excursion into Liminality

Turner’s Topic Mirrors the Turbulent Times

Synchronistically, in 1964, V. Turner wrote a paper about liminality called “Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage.”

Karey Pohn

3 min

Excursion into Liminality

Communitas—The Power of Connection

Communitas is characterized by spontaneity and immediacy, and is not usually long lasting.

Karey Pohn

3 min

Excursion into Liminality

Here We Go Again—Liminality Reiterated

Here we go again with liminality, which shows up about as often as the eternal return, and it should, because liminality is intimately relat

Karey Pohn

3 min

Neoteny Excursion

Beware of Banking Education

Mary repeatedly takes the children into new spaces, wanting them to have more than just a “banking education,” Paulo Freire's term for educa

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