The anguish of snails : Native American folklore in the West / / Barre Toelken

• Autore: Toelken Barre <1935->
• Pubblicazione: Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 202 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 398/.089/97078
• Soggetto topico: Indians of North America - West (U.S.); Folklore - Performance - West (U.S.); Folklore - West (U.S.); Oral tradition - West (U.S.)
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Anguish Of Snails
• ISBN: 1-283-26699-7; 9786613266996; 0-87421-475-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910144653703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Folklife of the West ; ; v. 2.