Barre Toelken

Biographic Data

ID148166
NAMEBarre Toelken
GIVEN NAMESBarre
FAMILY NAMEToelken
SIGNATURETOELKEN B
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX4

  • The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West

    Peter Iverson, Barre ToelkenARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2005Cited by: 3

    Journal Article The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West Get access The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West. By Toelken Barre. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2003. xii + 204 pp. Illustrations, index. $22.95, paper.) Peter Iverson Peter Iverson Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 2, Summer 2005, …

  • Beauty Behind Me; Beauty Before (AFS Address)

    Barre ToelkenARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2004

    Beauty Behind Me; Beauty Before (AFS Address) Barre Toelken, Emeritus Professor of English (bio) About fifty years ago, when I quit school in 1954 (during my sophomore year), I did not know of the lifetime of folklore upon which I was embarking. A forestry major at Utah State, in northern Utah, I quit for only a term—or so I thought—to think of other majors, for one thing, and to try my hand (like everyone else) at finding uranium, a new search "…

  • The Heritage Arts Imperative

    Barre ToelkenARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2003

    Proposant quelques commentaires sur les arts culturellement situes de differentes communautes ethniques ou nationales, l'A. suggere qu'il est imperatif de preter une attention particuliere aux arts qui emergent de ce que l'on appelle l'heritage culturel : l'accumulation continue de formes expressives qui representent les gouts et experiences partages de cultures vivantes plus que des realisations uniques d'artistes particuliers. Il insiste sur l'…

  • Anguish Of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West

    Open AccessBarre ToelkenBOOKAnguish Of Snails: Native…2003Cited by: 4

  • Native American Oral Traditions: Collaboration and Interpretation

    Open AccessMargaret R Yocom, Larry Evers et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore2002Cited by: 7

    This collection provides a benchmark that helps secure the position of collaboration between Native American and non-Native American scholars in the forefront of study of Native oral traditions. Seven sets of intercultural authors present Native American oral texts with commentary, exploring dimensions of perspective, discovery, and meaning that emerge through collaborative translation and interpretation. The texts studied all come from the Ameri…

  • New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden

    Barre ToelkenREVIEWWestern Folklore2001

    New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden. By Kimberly J. Lau. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. 178, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper) As the reader senses from the book's title, this is not a standard study; indeed, the word folklore is hard to find anywhere in it, which would seem to make it a problematic candidate for review in a journal. But what Lau does in this study is to consider oblique…

  • Introducing Folklore: A Review Essay

    Open AccessPeter Tokofsky, Robert A Georges et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1998

    Folkloristics: An Introduction. By Robert A. Georges and Michael Owen Jones. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 336. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper) The Study of American Folklore: An Introducti By Jan Harold Brunvand. (New York: Norton, 1997. 4th Edition. Originally published 1968. Pp. xxiv + 640. $31.95 cloth) The Dynamics of Folklore. By Barre Toelken. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1996. Revised and expanded edition. Ori…

  • The End of Folklore. The 1998 Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture

    Open AccessBarre ToelkenARTICLEWestern Folklore1998

    End of Folklore* 1998 Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture Archer Taylor was not only an exemplary folklorist, but more importantly he was a generous and supportive teacher who believed one of the most important things we can do is to encourage our students and to urge them to go beyond our own work. Like many people in this audience, I have been the beneficiary of Archer Taylor's encouragements, which most often came in the form of postcards in his cr…

  • The Yellowman Tapes, 1966-1997

    Barre ToelkenARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1998Cited by: 7

    This article considers the final disposal of field-recorded tapes that are believed by the informant's family to embody certain dangers to researchers, to the natural world, and to themselves. Motives for keeping or destroying the tapes are discussed in the light of modern concerns such as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Navajo worldview, scholarly interests, fieldwork ethics, and personal responsibilities of the field…

  • Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends

    Kazuhiko Komatsu, Michiko Iwasaka et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1997

  • Morning Dew and Roses: Nuance, Metaphor, and Meaning in Folksongs

    Peter Narváez, Barre ToelkenARTICLEAmerican Music1996

  • Morning Dew and Roses: Nuance, Metaphor, and Meaning in Folksongs

    Cathy Lynn Preston, Barre ToelkenARTICLEWestern Folklore1996Cited by: 6

    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 contribu…

  • The Origin of Ethnography in Japan: Yanagita Kunio and His Times

    Barre Toelken, Minoru Sawada et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1995

  • Folklore & Fascism: The Reich Institute for German Volkstunde

    Barre Toelken, Hannjost Lixfeld et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1995

  • Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends

    Richard W Anderson, Michiko Iwasaka et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1995Cited by: 1

  • Ghosts And The Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends

    Michiko Iwasaka, Barre ToelkenBOOKGhosts and the Japanese1994

  • The 1992 O'odham Waila Festival

    Barre Toelken, Waila Committee et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1993

    En 1992, le festival annuel de « waila » a ete organise au Musee de la societe historique d'Arizona (Tucson). Cette manifestation a permis de faire connaitre cette musique indienne des Tohono O'odham dont la caracteristique est de comporter davantage d'elements europeens (instruments) qu'indiens. Les visiteurs, parmi lesquels les indigenes etaient les plus nombreux, ont pu apprecier, par la musique et les dances, l'interdependance et l'interactio…

  • Traditional Water Narratives in Utah

    Open AccessBarre ToelkenARTICLEWestern Folklore1991Cited by: 4

  • Haa Shuka, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives

    Barre Toelken, Nora Marks Dauenhauer et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1990

  • Progress and Nostalgia: Silvesterklausen in Urnasch, Switzerland

    Barre Toelken, R F Bendix et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1987Cited by: 3

  • Idaho Folklife: Homesteads to Headstones

    Barre Toelken, Louie W AtteberyARTICLERocky Mountain Review of Language…1986

  • Figurative Language and Cultural Contexts in the Traditional Ballads

    Barre Toelken, D K WilgusARTICLEWestern Folklore1986Cited by: 1

    Barre Toelken, D. K. Wilgus, Figurative Language and Cultural Contexts in the Traditional Ballads, Western Folklore, Vol. 45, No. 2, The Ballad in Context: Paradigms of Meaning (Apr., 1986), pp. 128-142

  • Reading the Fire: Essays in the Traditional Indian Literatures of the Far West

    Open AccessBarre Toelken, Jarold Ramsey et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1985Cited by: 1

  • Native American Music

    Barre Toelken, Marcia HerndonARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1983

  • Identity and Difference in the Criticism of Native American Literature

    Arnold Krupat, Karl Kroeber et al.ARTICLEdiacritics1983