{"id":228,"date":"2015-10-06T22:05:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T22:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2016-02-20T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T18:03:43","slug":"opossum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/opossum\/","title":{"rendered":"Opossum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"oversal-shuffle-before-to\">\n<h2 class=\"oversal-shuffle-text\">Opossum introduction<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p>I have tried to gather trickster stories from most of the geographies with which I have had close relations. One of these is Mexico. Here opossum \u2013or tlacuache \u2013 in folk tales is a trickster figure, but what interests me is that tlacuache is a rare female trickster. The speculation for this \u2018deviation\u2019 is that, whilst the trickster character in most tales is famously a journeyer, or scavenger of time and space, a role seemingly performed by a \u2018male\u2019 entity, the female opossum is well able to function in this role because she is a marsupial, and marsupial females carry their young in a pouch and are therefore mobile. However, the reader should be reminded that trickster is, in Native American terms, a shape-shifter, and in West African cosmology a unifier of opposites. None of my essays specially refer to tlacuache, but she is an animateuse in these essays. The definitive book on tlacuache to date is \u2018The Myths of the Opossum\u2019 by Alfredo L\u00f3pez Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opossum introduction I have tried to gather trickster stories from most of the geographies with which I have had close relations. One of these is Mexico. Here opossum \u2013or tlacuache \u2013 in folk tales is a trickster figure, but what interests me is that tlacuache is a rare female trickster. The speculation for this \u2018deviation\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}