Robert Pelton
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| - | As [[Luke Erlich]] wrote, "If reggae is Africa in the New World, dub is Africa on the moon."[13] Just look at the cover art: Mad [[Professor's Science and the Witchdoctor]] sets circuit boards and robot figures next to mushrooms and fetish dolls, while [[Scientist Encounters Pac-Man at Channel One]] shows the Scientist manhandling the mixing console as if it were some madcap machine out of Marvel comics. It's important to note that in Jamaican patois, "science" refers to [[obeah]], the African grab-bag of herbal, ritual and occult lore popular on the island. And as [[Robert Pelton]] points out, the figure of the scientist is not so distant from the spirit of the trickster that runs throughout this tale: "Both seek to befriend the strange, not so much striving to 'reduce' anomaly as to use it as a passage into a larger order...like the scientist, the trickster always yokes just this world to a suddenly larger world."[14] | + | Robert D. Pelton: ''The Trickster in West Africa. A Study of Mythic Irony and sacred Delight''. University of California Press, Berkeley CA u. a. 1980, ISBN 0-520-03477-5 (''Hermeneutics'' 8). |
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Robert D. Pelton: The Trickster in West Africa. A Study of Mythic Irony and sacred Delight. University of California Press, Berkeley CA u. a. 1980, ISBN 0-520-03477-5 (Hermeneutics 8).
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