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9780874214086

Worldviews and the American West

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  • ISBN13:

    9780874214086

  • ISBN10:

    0874214084

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-09-01
  • Publisher: Utah State Univ Pr

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Summary

Seventeen notable authors and scholars, employing diverse approaches and styles, apply folklore scholar Barre Toelken's ideas about worldview to the American West.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction
1(6)
The Editors
Personal Essay 7(10)
The Language of Animals
9(8)
Barry Lopez
Song 17(20)
Faith of our Fathers
19(12)
George Venn
Blue Shadows on Human Drama: The Western Songscape
31(6)
Hal Cannon
Objects 37(68)
A Diversity of Dead Helpers: Folk Saints of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
39(15)
James S. Griffith
Icons of Immortality: Forest Lawn and the American Way of Death
54(11)
Elliott Oring
Ride `Em, Barbie Girl: Commodifying Folklore, Place, and the Exotic
65(22)
Jeannie B. Thomas
Tall Tales and Sales
87(18)
Steve Siporin
Narrative 105(46)
Jesse James: An American Outlaw
107(11)
C. W. Sullivan III
John Campbell's Adventure, and the Ecology of Story
118(17)
Jarold Ramsey
Raven and the Tide: A Tlingit Narrative
135(16)
Nora Marks Dauenhauer
Richard Dauenhauer
Groups 151(76)
``Two Moonlight Rides and a Picnic Lunch'': Memories of Childhood in a Logging Community
153(9)
Twilo Scofield
In Her Own Words: Women's Frontier Friendships in Letters, Diaries, and Reminiscences
162(17)
Margaret K. Brady
The Concept of the West and Other Hindrances to the Study of Mormon Folklore
179(12)
William A. Wilson
The Coquelle Indians and the Cultural ``Black Hole'' of the Southern Oregon Coast
191(20)
George B. Wasson
Visible Landscapes/Invisible People: Negotiating the Power of Representation in a Mining Community
211(16)
Robert McCarl
Personal Essay 227(10)
Local Character
229(8)
Kim Stafford
References 237(16)
Notes on Contributors and Editors 253

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