This is a delightfully thorough paper about tricksters. It goes into the historical instances and compares these ancient tricksters with modern examples. I hadn't thought of wile e coyote as an evolution of the Cherokee Coyote myth but just mentioning the connection was enough to highlight it brightly in my mind. I also liked that the author compared Bugs bunny with the trickster rabbit of the Cherokee and Briar Rabbit of African American traditions. I really hadn't thought of trickster myths as still being a current thing until I read this paper but now I can't help but see examples in a lot of the places I look.