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| Credits | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Searching for Trickster | |
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| The Silver-Tongued Devil | |
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| Archetypes | |
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| Where Is Science in the Study of Literature? | |
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| Universal Human Nature | |
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| Textual Authority vs. Empirical Evidence | |
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| How Did Language Begin? | |
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| Chomsky | |
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| Schema Theory | |
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| The Tricksterish Brain | |
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| Evolution | |
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| The Brain of Sex | |
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| Sex, Disease, and Competition | |
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| Displays | |
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| The Sexiest Animals | |
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| Ornamental Mind | |
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| The Brain of Love and War | |
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| Monogamy? | |
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| Women and War | |
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| Civilization and Enslavement of Women | |
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| Why Love? | |
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| The Power of Love: Women's Songs of Love from Afghanistan | |
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| The Brain of Song | |
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| Music and Language-Common Roots | |
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| Two Camps | |
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| Why Did Music and Language Split? | |
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| Music and Food | |
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| Sexual Selection for Music | |
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| Tribal Songs of Love | |
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| Ethics | |
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| The Falacy of the Naturalistic Fallacy: Is-Ought | |
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| Fairness and Justice in the Animal World | |
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| Storytelling and the Theory of Mind | |
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| Unconsciousness and Consciousness | |
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| Theory of Mind | |
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| The Brain of God | |
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| Potheism/Monotheism and the Search for Meaning | |
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| Why God? | |
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| What Caused Religion? | |
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| Origins of Religion | |
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| Other Explanations | |
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| The Trickster of Mythology | |
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| Why Trickster? | |
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| Trickster Biological Origins | |
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| A Swath of Trickster Stories from Oral Literature | |
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| Sex, Desire, and the Body | |
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| Some Trickster Stories from Around the World | |
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| Coyote Marries a Man (Plains Cree, North America) | |
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| Coyote and Beaver Exchange Wives (Cochiti, North America) | |
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| The Winkte Way (Omaha, North America) | |
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| Legba (Fon, West Africa) | |
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| Coyote Visits the Women (Assiniboine, North America) | |
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| Coyote and His Anus (Nez Perce, North America) | |
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| The Trickster Myth Excerpts (Winnebago, North America) | |
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| Uncle Tompa (Tibet) | |
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| Namaranganin (Aborigine, Australia) | |
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| Coyote Sleeps with His Own Daughters (Southern Ute, North America) | |
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| How Kwaku Ananse Got Aso in Marriage (Ashanti, Africa) | |
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| Coyote Keeps his Dead Wife's Genitals (Lipan Apache, North America) - | |
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| Female Tricksters | |
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| Evil Woman Trickster Stories | |
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| The Toothed Vagina (Yurok, North America) | |
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| Teeth in the Wrong Place (Ponca-Otoe, North America) | |
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| Proverbs 5: 3-8 (Hebrew) | |
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| Clever/Good Women Trickster Stories | |
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| Old Coyote Man Meets Coyote Woman (Blackfoot, North America) | |
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| The Most Precious Thing in the World (Hebrew) | |
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| The Wife Who Refused to Be Beaten (Kashmiri, India) | |
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| Literary Filters | |
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| Music and the Trickster | |
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| Singing the World Into Being: Creation Stories with Song | |
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| Apache Creation Story (North America) | |
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| Bunjil the Creator, No. I (Aboriginal, Australian) | |
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| Din� (or Navaio) (North America) | |
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| Mythic Trickster Musicians and Singers | |
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| Ajapa and the Roasted Peanut Seller (Yoruba, Africa) | |
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| Coyote Giving (Paiute, North America) | |
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| Hermes (Greek) | |
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| Hanuman (India) | |
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| The Zande Trickster, Tule; The Bushman (Africa) | |
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| A Swath of Other Trickster Stories from Around the World | |
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| The Wonderful Tar Baby Story (African American) | |
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| How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox | |
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| How the Wicked Tanuki Was Punished (Japan) | |
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| Fox and Snake-Good Is Repaid with Evil (Venezuela) | |
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| Sun Wu-k'ung, The Monkey King (China) | |
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| Dionysus (Greek) | |
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| The Wanderings of Dionysus | |
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| Prometheus (Greek) | |
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| Pandora (Greek) | |
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| Orpheus (Greek) | |
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| The Infancy Gospel of Thomas (Apocrophy Gospel, 2nd Century) | |
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| Cakchiquel Maya (Guatemala)/Matias Sicajan | |
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| We-Gyet ('Ksan, Northwest Coast) | |
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| The Trickster Personified | |
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| Buddhist Clowns | |
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| Jewish and Christian Clowns | |
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| Other Clowns | |
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| Islamic Clown | |
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| Jesters | |
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| Kannada; Tamil; Telugu (India) | |
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| How Tanali Rama Became a Jester (India) | |
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| Tyll Ulenspiegel's Merry Prank (Germany) | |
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| Quevedo and the King (Mexico) | |
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| Blues and Courting Tricksters | |
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| Trickster in Written Literature | |
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| Trickster Was Wandering | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |