Abstract
This paper traces the path of Motif K111.1, Alleged gold-dropping animal sold, through a series of tales in which the trickster Aldar Köse works his way to wealth through ruses that exploit the norms and institutions of mobile pastoral production. Comparison of the motif across eras reveals the ways in which a trickster figure who embodied a disorderly anarchy of appetite was improbably reborn as an apostle of order.
afs ethnographic thesaurus: Trickster tales, motifs, morphological analysis, diachronic analysis, peonage, class conflict, political ideology
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