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Anguish Of Snails

Toelken, Barre.

Anguish Of Snails Native American Folklore in the West / [electronic resource] : Barre Toelken. - Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2003. - 1 online resource (xii, 204 p. :) ill. (some col.) ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780874214758




Oral tradition--West (U.S.)
Folklore--Classification.--West (U.S.)
Folklore--Performance--West (U.S.)
Indians of North America--West (U.S.)--Folklore.


Electronic books.

E78.W5 / T64 2003

398/.089/97078