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The anguish of snails : Native American folklore in the West / Barre Toelken.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Toelken, Barre, 1935-
- Series:
- Folklife of the West ; v. 2.
- Folklife of the West ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--West (U.S.)--Folklore.
- Indians of North America.
- Folklore--Performance--West (U.S.).
- Folklore.
- Folklore--West (U.S.)--Classification.
- Oral tradition--West (U.S.).
- Oral tradition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 202 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Native American folklore in the West
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2003.
- Logan Utah State University Press, [2025]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- After a career working and living with American Indians and studying their traditions, Barre Toelken has written this sweeping study of Native American folklore in the West. Within a framework of performance theory, cultural worldview, and collaborative research, he examines Native American visual arts, dance, oral tradition (story and song), humor, and patterns of thinking and discovery to demonstrate what can be gleaned from Indian traditions by Natives and non-Natives alike. In the process he considers popular distortions of Indian beliefs, demystifies many traditions by showing how th
- Contents:
- Prologue: the snail's clues
- Cultural patterns in Native American folklore: an introduction
- Visual patterns of performance: arts
- Kinetic patterns of performance: dance
- Oral patterns of performance: story and song
- Patterns and themes in Native humor
- Cultural patterns of discovery
- Epilogue: "gleaning" and the active audience.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613266996
- 9781283266994
- 1283266997
- 9780874214758
- 0874214750
- OCLC:
- 476107492
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb09311 hdl
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