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The anguish of snails: Native American folklore in the West

Barre Toelken
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page vii)
  • Dedication and Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • She Comes Along Carrying Spears (page xi)
  • Prologue: The Snail's Clues (page 1)
  • 1. Cultural Patterns in Native American Folklore: An Introduction (page 9)
  • 2. Visual Patterns of Performance: Arts (page 25)
  • 3. Kinetic Patterns of Performance: Dance (page 80)
  • 4. Oral Patterns of Performance: Story and Song (page 110)
  • 5. Patterns and Themes in Native Humor (page 146)
  • 6. Cultural Patterns of Discovery (page 165)
  • Epilogue: "Gleaning" and the Active Audience (page 191)
  • Index (page 198)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
GPQ 25.4 (2005): 259 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23533681
WF 65.3 (2006): 332-335 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25474794
FOLK 116.2 (2005): 228-229 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30035282
WHQ 36.2 (2005): 235-236 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25443176
JAF 118.468 (2005): 244-245 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4137710
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Published: c2003
Publisher: Utah State University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780874215564 (paper)
  • 9780874214758 (ebook)
  • 9780874215557 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Folklore
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