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  • Dynamics Of Folklore

    Revised and Expanded Edition

    de Barre Toelken ...
    One of the most comprehensive and widely praised introductions to folklore ever written. Toelken's discussion of the history and meaning of folklore is delivered in straightforward language, easily understood definitions, and a wealth of insightful and entertaining examples.Toelken emphasizes dynamism and variety in the vast array of folk expressions he examines, from "the biology of folklore," to ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Oral Patterns of Performance

    Story and Song

    de Barre Toelken ...
    To many Native American cultures, songs and stories are dramatic enactments of reality, and words bring reality into existence. In this chapter from his award-winning book, The Anguish of Snails, Toelken thoughtfully approaches a number of stories from Native American traditions, discussing how narratives can be touchstones of shared values among closely associated traditional people and how songs ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Anguish of Snails

    Native American Folklore in the West

    de Barre Toelken ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Tales of Canyonlands Cowboys

    de Richard Negri ...
    Before Canyonlands was a national park, before tourists discovered the wildness and wonder of the Maze and the Land of Standing Rocks, before the San Rafael Desert became a hive of the mineral exploration, the lands west of the Colorado and Green Rivers to the San Rafael Swell and from the Book Cliffs and San Rafael River south to the dirty Devil River and the Henry Mountains were pastures for the ... Leer más

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  • Haywire

    Poems

    de George Bilgere ...
    Series series Swenson Poetry Award
    Tenth annual winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award, Haywire is a well-polished collection from a highly accomplished poet. With humor, compassion, and an unflinching eye, Bilgere explores the human condition in accessible lines and a magician's way with language. In images bright and dark, tangible and immanent, Bilgere brings us time after time to the inner reaches of a contemporary life. In ... Leer más

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  • Haunting Experiences

    Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore

    de Diane Goldstein, Sylvia Grider, Jeannie Banks Thomas ...
    Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and ... Leer más

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  • Roll Away Saloon

    de Deirdre Paulsen ...
    Series series Western Experience Series
    With his animated tales of Zane Grey, Butch Cassidy, and the Robbers Roost gang, Rider creates an engaging and believable picture of the joys and hardships of cowboy life. ... Leer más

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  • On Being Human

    Folklore of Mormon Missionaries

    de William Wilson ...
    A collection of narratives, humorous stories, and songs from Mormon missionaries that has become a classic study of narrative folklore. The 64th annual Faculty Honor Lecture, in the Humanities, Utah State University. ... Leer más

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  • Landscaping on the New Frontier

    Waterwise Design for the Intermountain West

    de Susan E. Meyer, Roger K. Kjelgren, Darrel G. Morrison, William A. Varga, Bettina Schultz ...
    A practical volume for the home or business owner on landscaping with native, drought-tolerant plants in the Rocky Mountain West. Filled with color illustrations, photos, and design sketches, over 100 native species are described, while practical tips on landscape design, water-wise irrigation, and keeping down the weeds are provided.In this book you will learn how to use natural landscapes to ... Leer más

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  • Exploring Desert Stone

    John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado

    de Steven K. Madsen ...
    The confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers, now in Canyonlands National Park, near popular tourist destination Moab, still cannot be reached or viewed easily. Much of the surrounding region remained remote and rarely visited for decades after settlement of other parts of the West. The first U.S. government expedition to explore the canyon country and the Four Corners area was led by John ... Leer más

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  • Neck of the World

    de F. Daniel Rzicznek ...
    Series Libro 11 - Swenson Poetry Award
    Neck of the World is the eleventh volume in the prestigious May Swenson Poetry Award series. In it, Daniel Rzicznek offers poems that, in quick angular language, capture the natural world and at the same time extend it into a surreal vision, sometimes dream-like, sometimes dark. Alice Quinn, judge for the 2007 Swenson Award, says this of Rzicznek’s work: “Throughout, the language pulsates, always ... Leer más

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  • Jesus in America and Other Stories from the Field

    de Claudia Gould ...
    Drawing on ethnographic field work she conducted among Christians in her home state of North Carolina, Claudia Gould crafts stories that lay open the human heart and social complications of fundamentalist belief. These stories and the compelling characters who inhabit them draw us into the complex essence of religious experience among southern American Christians. ... Leer más

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