Traditional Storytelling Today: An International SourcebookMargaret Read MacDonald Traditional Storytelling Today explores the diversity of contemporary storytelling traditions and provides a forum for in-depth discussion of interesting facets of comtemporary storytelling. Never before has such a wealth of information about storytelling traditions been gathered together. Storytelling is alive and well throughout the world as the approximately 100 articles by more than 90 authors make clear. Most of the essays average 2,000 words and discuss a typical storytelling event, give a brief sample text, and provide theory from the folklorist. A comprehensive index is provided. Bibliographies afford the reader easy access to additional resources. |
Contents
To Make Our World a Gentler More Compassionate World | 9 |
Asia | 22 |
The Igbo Folk Epic | 25 |
The Meaning of the Meaningless Refrain in Igbo Folk Songs and Storytelling Events | 41 |
The Storytelling Event Among the Igede of Nigeria | 54 |
Vincent Muli Wa Kituku | 67 |
The Chantefable Tradition of Suzhou | 85 |
Transformation of Domestic Storytelling in India | 98 |
Egyptian PeepShow Storytelling | 325 |
Stories About a Moroccan Storyteller | 341 |
Tunisian Storytelling Today | 356 |
Whats in an Ending? Indian Storytelling of the Inland Northwest | 369 |
SueEllen Jacobs and Esther Martinez Poe Tsawa | 383 |
Cowboy Poetry and Other Occupational Folk Poetry | 398 |
If We Dont Joke with Each Other We Wont Have No Fun Will We? | 416 |
Storytelling Style and Community Codes Among the Swiss Volhynian Mennonites | 434 |
Religious Tales and Storytelling in Japan | 114 |
Cautionary Tales Among the Senoi Semai | 130 |
A Means to Maintain a Disappearing Language and Culture | 144 |
A Gossamer of Wisdom | 171 |
Basque Storytelling and the Living Oral Tradition | 185 |
Storytelling in Croatia | 203 |
New Storytellers in France | 227 |
GreekAlbanian Arvanítika Interactive Storytelling | 247 |
Traditional Storytelling in Ireland in the Twentieth Century | 264 |
Once Upon a Time in Vale Judeu | 281 |
Storytelling Traditions in Scotland | 289 |
Traditional Storytelling Among French Newfoundlanders | 448 |
The Art of Bahamian Narration | 465 |
Between Traditional Poetry and Popular Urban Versifying | 478 |
TzotzilTzeltal Maya Storytelling on the Stage | 494 |
Storytelling and Mental Representation Among Totonac Indians Mexico | 502 |
Saramaka Maroon Folktales in Comparative AfroAmerican Perspective | 522 |
Childrens Telling of Ghost Stories | 539 |
The Storytelling Revival | 552 |
Urban Legends | 572 |
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Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook Margaret Read MacDonald Limited preview - 2013 |
Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook Margaret Read MacDonald Limited preview - 2013 |
Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
A Handbook of Media and Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative ... Klaus Bruhn Jensen No preview available - 2002 |