El Trickster
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El trickster
Author: Adriana Guzmán
language: es
Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Release Date: 2024-08-23
Este libro es un recorrido por la literatura antropológica mundial más relevante que se ha dado a la tarea de etnografiar y buscar vías de comprensión de estos singulares, divertidos y en ocasiones aterradores personajes “trickster”, presentes en mitos, rituales, manifestaciones artísticas o políticas. En español se les conoce como payasos, embaucadores o bufones rituales, una exploración teórica sobre el imprescindible papel que juegan en las culturas.
The Sacred & the Digital
Video game studies are a relative young but flourishing academic discipline. But within game studies, however, the perspective of religion and spirituality is rather neglected, both by game scholars and religion scholars. While religion can take different shapes in digital games, ranging from material and referential to reflexive and ritual, it is not necessarily true that game developers depict their in-game religions in a positive, confirming way, but ever so often games approach the topic critically and disavowingly. The religion criticisms found in video games can be categorized as follows: religion as (1) fraud, aimed to manipulate the uneducated, as (2) blind obedience towards an invisible but ultimately non-existing deity/ies, as (3) violence against those who do not share the same set of religious rules, as (4) madness, a deranged alternative for logical reasoning, and as (5) suppression in the hands of the powerful elite to dominate and subdue the masses into submission and obedience. The critical depictions of religion in video games by their developers is the focus of this special issue.