LEADER 03982oam 22007214a 450 001 9910142524603321 005 20230125233223.0 010 $a1-283-26684-9 010 $a9786613266842 010 $a0-87421-456-4 035 $a(CKB)111056486848400 035 $a(EBL)287153 035 $a(OCoLC)476040114 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000274800 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11244280 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000274800 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10340270 035 $a(PQKB)11073142 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442728 035 $a(OCoLC)51978167 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16332 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC287153 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL287153 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/62828 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486848400 100 $a20000630d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aWorldviews And The American West$eThe Life of the Place Itself /$fedited by Polly Stewart ... [et al.] 210 $cUtah State University, University Libraries$d2000 210 1$aLogan :$cUtah State University Press,$d2000. 210 4$dİ2000. 215 $a1 online resource (257 pages)$cillustrations 311 $a0-87421-407-6 311 $a0-87421-408-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-252). 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Personal Essay -- The Language of Animals -- Song -- Faith of Our Fathers -- Blue Shadows on Human Drama: The Western Songscape -- Objects -- A Diversity of Dead Helpers: Folk Saints of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands -- Icons of Immor tality: Forest Lawn and the American Way of Death -- Ride 'Em, Barbie Girl: Commodifying Folklore, Place, and the Exotic -- Tall Tales and Sales -- Narrative -- Jesse James: An American Outlaw -- John Campbell 's Adventure, and the Ecology of Story -- Raven and the Tide: A Tlingit Narrative -- Groups -- "Two Moonlight Rides and a Picnic Lunch": Memories of Childhood in a Logging Community -- In Her Own Words: Women's Frontier Friendships in Le tters, Diaries, and Reminiscences -- The Concept of the West and Other Hindrances to the Study of Mormon Folklore -- The Coquelle Indians and the Cultural " Black Hole " of the Southern Oregon Coast -- Visible Landscapes/Invisible People: Negotiating the Power of Representation in a Mining Community -- Personal Essay -- Local Character -- References -- Notes on Contributors and Editors. 330 $aA diverse group of writers and scholars follow the lead of noted folklorist Barre Toelken and consider, from the inside, the ways in which varied cultures in the American West understand and express their relations to the world around them. As Barre Toelken puts it in The Dynamics of Folklore, ""'Worldview' refers to the manner in which a culture sees and expresses its relation to the world around it."" In Worldviews and the American West, seventeen notable authors and scholars, employing diverse approaches and styles, apply Toelken's ideas about worldview to the American West. 606 $aGroup identity$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aFolklore$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aEthnophilosophy$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aMinorities$zWest (U.S.)$xSocial life and customs 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xIn literature 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xCivilization 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xEthnic relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGroup identity 615 0$aFolklore 615 0$aEthnophilosophy 615 0$aMinorities$xSocial life and customs. 676 $a306/.0978 676 $a306.0978 700 $aJones$b Suzi$4auth$0801330 701 $aStewart$b Polly$f1943-$0904041 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910142524603321 996 $aWorldviews And The American West$94175116 997 $aUNINA