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CONTRIBUTORS in Order ofAppearance in the Volume DAVID AGUIRRE is a noted artist from Santa Fe, New Mexico, who specializes in ceramic works that depict the trickster's myriad forms. His work is displayed in numerous museums and galleries. The piece represented on the cover, "Trickster," 1990, was inspired by reading stories of Native American lore. WILLIAM J. HYNES is Academic Vice President and Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Mary's College in the San Francisco Bay area. His Shirley Jackson Case and the Chicago School (1981) charts the so~io-historical method as applied to the study ofreligions within their social and cultural contexts. He was the initiator of a multi-year consultation on trickster figures under the auspices of the American Academy of Religion. WILLIAM G. DOTY is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. His publications in this field have included essays on Hermes and mythology and on contemporary ethnography, and edited volumes on the transformations of archaic images, on Mircea Eliade, and Clifford Geertz. His Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals (1986) graphs a variety of methodological approaches. LAURA MAKARIUS is well known in French anthropological circles; her work on such topics as magic and taboos, as well as tricksters and 260 CONTRIBUTORS symbolism, some of it written with her husband, Raoul Makarius, has been discussed both on the Continent and in America. CHRiSTOPHER NICHOLS is a classicist and translator residing in Denver, Colorado. Professor MAc LINSCOTT RICKETTS is Chair of the department of religion and philosophy at Louisburg College in North Carolina. His dissertation at the University of Chicago (1964) was one of the first major studies of the trickster figure in the cultures of the North Ameri~an Indians; his History of Religions reprise of that work (1966) has been supplemented recently by his article in The Encyclopedia of Religion (1987). His book, Mircea Eliade, The Romanian Roots: 1907-1945, was published in 1988. Professor CHRISTOPHER VECSEY is Chair of the department of philosophy and religion of Colgate University. His books include Imagine Ourselves Richly: Mythic Narratives ofNorth American Indians (1988) and Handbook ofAmerican Indian Religious Freedom. He is the editor of Religion in Native North America, and with Robert W. Venables, ofAmerican Indian Environments : Ecological Issues in Native American History (1980). Fr. ROBERT D. PELTON is a member of the Madonna House Apostolate in Combermere, Ontario. He gained his spurs in trickster studies with the important publication entitled The Trickster in West Africa: A Study of Mythic Irony and Sacred Delight (1980). ROBERT S. ELLWOOD'S books have focused upon the history of religions and in particular Eastern religions. He has been Director of the School of Religion and remains Bashford Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of more than eleven books, on Japan, mysticism, and religions. THOMAS J. STEELE, S.J., is author of the highly acclaimed Santos and Saints: The Religious Folk Art ofHispanic New Mexico (1974), and co-author of the Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. He teaches English at Regis University in Denver, Colorado, and has been a visiting professor at Colorado College and the University of New Mexico. [3.238.64.201] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 15:23 GMT) CONTRIBUTORS 261 Professor T. o. BEIDELMAN teaches in the department of anthropology at New York University, where he specializes in social anthropology, religion , colonial history, oral literature, and Africa. The bibliography to this volume lists many of his wide-ranging publications, which focus upon native African texts and their interpretation. ANNE DOUEIHI'S essay was written while she was in the doctoral program in religion at Syracuse University. She has been associated with the Population Information Program of the School of Hygiene at the Johns Hopkins University and received the AAUW American Fellowship for work on a dissertation on Hildegard of Bingen. ...