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Oral Patterns of Performance: Story and Song (Current Arguments in Folklore) by Barre Toelken; Project Muse is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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After a career working and living with American Indians 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. Winner of the 2004 Chicago Folklore Prize, The Anguish of Snails is an essential work for the collection of any serious reader in folklore or Native American studies.

Who reads Oral Patterns of Performance: Story and Song (Current Arguments in Folklore)?

Author

Barre Toelken; Project Muse

Publisher

Published by Utah State University Press, an imprint of University Press of Colorado

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874219531

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Sociology

Rating

4.33 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14