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The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West

By Barre Toelken

Book information

Publisher
Utah State University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0874215552, 9780874215564, 9780874215557, 9780874214758, 0874215560
Open Library ID
OL15559879M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3771469 bytes)
Series
Folklife of the West, Vol. 2
Edition
1
Pages
216\215
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

After a career’s worth of experience 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 begleaned 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 they can be comprehended within their cultural contexts, considers why some aspects of Native American life are not meant to be understood by or shared with outsiders, and emphasizes how much can be learned through sensitivity to and awareness of cultural values.

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