Anguish Of Snails : Native American Folklore in the West / Barre Toelken.

Author/creator Toelken, Barre
Other author Project Muse.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLogan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2003. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Description1 online resource (xii, 204 pages :) : illustrations (some color) ;
Supplemental ContentFull text available:
Subjects
Oral tradition--West (U.S.).
Folklore--West (U.S.). --Classification.
Folklore--Performance. --West (U.S.).
Indians of North America--West (U.S.). --Folklore.

SeriesBook collections on Project MUSE. UNAUTHORIZED
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2003006172
ISBN9780874214758