Resumo

GONZALEZ VARELA, Sergio. Mimos y payasos de Coyoacán como figuras liminales del trickster en antropología: Reflexiones sobre el juego y la experiencia lúdica. Nueva antropol [online]. 2011, vol.24, n.75, pp.09-26. ISSN 0185-0636.

The following article is a study of the trickster in Anthropology, within the ethnographic context of mimes and clowns in Coyoacán Square in Mexico City. The main objective is to describe the relations between play, theatre and performance in a liminal context. The method acts as a critique of functionalist views of the trickster and explores other possibilities of anthropological analysis based on the revaluation of some of Victor Turner's theoretical propositions about the experience of performance.

Palavras-chave : trickster; mimes and clowns; laughing; play; performance.