The anguish of snails
Subtitle: Native American folklore in the West
By: Barre Toelken.
Series: Folklife of the West -- v. 2
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Logan, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Folklore; Folklore -- Performance -- West (U.S.); Folklore -- West (U.S.) -- Classification; Oral tradition -- West (U.S.)
Genres: Folklore.; Classification.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: the; title: Snail's clues --; title: Cultural patterns in Native American folklore: an introduction --; title: Visual patterns of performance: arts --; title: Kinetic patterns of performance: dance --; title: Oral patterns of performance: story and song --; title: Patterns and themes in Native humor --; title: Cultural patterns of discovery -- -- Epilogue:; title: "Gleaning" and the active audience.