| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Folklife of the West ; v. 2 |
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Folklife of the West ; v. 2.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
After a career of working and living with Native Americans 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 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Folklore
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Folklore -- Performance -- West (U.S.)
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Folklore -- West (U.S.) -- Classification
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Oral tradition -- West (U.S.)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Folklore
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Folklore -- Performance
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Indians of North America
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Oral tradition
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Volkskunst
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West United States
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Amerika -- Nordwest
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Indianer.
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| Genre/Form |
Classification
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Folklore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0874214750 |
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9780874214758 |
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661326699X |
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9786613266996 |
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9781457174650 |
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1457174650 |
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9781457174674 |
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1457174677 |
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