Re: Riddles

From: Mike Cole (mcole@weber.ucsd.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 05:02:37 PDT


Gary-- When I worked in Liberia, riddles were serious business. I have a
paper where I use an analysis of riddling done as a form of local intelligence-
manifesting behavior, a complex mode of social interaction and social
control.

Interesting observation that the status of riddles has thus "declined"
to that their absence is a puzzle, not a riddle.
mike



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