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books:

Morning Dew and Roses: Nuance, Metaphor, and Meaning in Folksongs (Folklore and Society)
Barre Toelken

University of Illinois Press, 1995

Toelken's lively exploration of folksongs and their meanings looks closely at a number of folksong and ballad texts. He discusses riddle songs and other ambiguous folksongs, as well as the various "ballad commonplaces", treating them not as a fund of mindless cliches but as a reservoir of suggestive reference. The author ranges through metaphors such as weaving, plowing, plucking flowers, and walking in the dew, showing in each case how it ...

Hopi Animal Tales

University of Nebraska Press, 1998

This original and informative collection features animal figures from thirty Hopi tales. Field Mouse, Coyote the Trickster, Cicada and his flute, Medicine Man Badger, the Chipmunk Girls and Antelope Kids, and other manifestations of serpents, insects, and birds appear in these ancient folk tales, traditionally told in mid-winter, when the nights are long and cold and all the crops are in. Highly entertaining, the narratives reveal attitudes ...

Hopi Animal Stories

Bison Books, 2001

The fascinating world of the Hopis is brought to light in this original and informative collection of thirty animal tales featuring Field Mouse, Coyote the Trickster, Cicada and his flute, Medicine Man Badger, the Chipmunk Girls and the Antelope Kids, and many other manifestations of serpents, insects, and birds. These ancient folk tales are traditionally told in midwinter, when the nights are long and cold and all the crops are in. Highly ...

Ghosts And The Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends

3 reviews
Barre Toelken

Utah State University Press, 1994

Best Book on Japanese Ghosts
There are obviously far better books on the subject available in Japanese, but this is the best English-language text I've ever found on the subject of Japanese ghosts. However, readers should be forewarned that the first half of the book reads like an "Introduction". Lay readers who are just looking for stories and aren't interested in the authors' theories and sociological opinions ...

The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (Folklife of the West, Vol. 2) (Folklife of the ...

2 reviews
Barre Toelken

Utah State University Press, 2003

Beautifully Written Inquiry into American Indian Culture
Toelken's book is an excellent study of the culture of America's first peoples. It is an eloquent discussion of how to learn about American Indian history and culture by looking at the everyday activities, traditional arts, folklife, and rituals that are shared with the public. Toelken's work challenges stereotypical and inaccurrate perceptions about Indians; more importantly, he shows ways to ...

Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song: From the Blues to the Baltic (British Academy Postdoctoral ...
Mary-Ann Constantine, Gerald Porter

British Academy, 2003

This is a study of very short songs: pieces long perceived as 'fragments' or remnants of longer narrative texts, and dismissed as the by-products of a degenerative oral tradition. Coverage includes English, Welsh, Breton, American, and Finnish songs. The authors argue that the inherently metaphorical and connotative idiom of traditional song makes external critical notions of 'completeness' inappropriate: in practice, such pieces are rarely felt ...

Dynamics Of Folklore

2 reviews
Barre Toelken

Utah State University Press, 1996

Curious about folklore? Then read this book!
Unfortunately, I think the somewhat quaint words "folk" and "lore" in "folklore" throw people off and make them dimiss folklore studies as a trivial or insignificant field of scholarship. "Folklore" just doesn't have the imposing sound of similar fields like anthropology and sociology. Admittedly, before reading Toelken's book, if I thought of the word "folk lore" I probably would have pictured ...

Journal of the Folklore Institute Vol IV Number 1 (Journal of the Folklore Institue, IV. 1)
Max; Ranke, Kurt; Levin, Isadore; Dupree, Louis; Toelken, Barre; Foss, George; Domotor, Tekla Luthi

Mouton & Co., 1967

Original name of the Journal of Folklore Research, published by the Folklore Institute

Native American Oral Traditions: Collaboration and Interpretation

1 review

Utah State University Press, 2001

Presents oral Native American stores and insightful comments
Native American Oral Traditions: Collaboration And Interpretation is an impressive collection of seven sets of intercultural authors, who present oral Native American stores with insightful commentary that adds perspective and discovery to these already fascinating stories. This body of oral literature, all of which comes from the American West, has been passed down through centuries and includes ...