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Traditional storytelling today

Explores the diversity of contemporary storytelling traditions and provides a forum for in-depth discussion of interesting facets of contemporary storytelling.
Print Book, English, 1999
Chicago, 1999
xv, 627 pages
9781579580117, 1579580114
154638515
1: Sub-Saharan Africa; 1: Hunters' Narratives; 2: Central African Epics; 3: To Make Our World a Gentler, More Compassionate World; 4: The Fulani Epics; 5: The Ga Folktale: Context, Themes, and Techniques; 6: The Igbo Folk Epic; 7: Igbo Stories and Storytelling; 8: The Meaning of the “Meaningless” Refrain in Igbo Folk Songs and Storytelling Events; 9: The Dogon Creation Story; 10: The Storytelling Event Among the Igede of Nigeria; 11: Ju/'hoan Folktales and Storytelling: Context and Variability; 12: Storytelling: A Thread of Life Within the Kamha Community; 13: Narrative Performance in a Changing World: The Case of the “Storytellers” in Kenya; 14: The Meditation of Time, the Wisdom of the Teller, the Void of the World; 2: Asia; 15: The Chantefable Tradition of Suzhou; 16: Antiphonal Epics of the Miao (Hmong) of Guizhou, China; 17: Rajasthani Hero Legends; 18: Two Contemporary Performances of Savitri in Pune, India; 19: Saneguruji Storytelling Academy, Transformation of Domestic Storytelling in India; 20: Storytelling in Middle-Class Indian Families; 21: A System of Narrative Performances in Middle India; 22: Indonesian Storytellers and Storytelling; 23: Religious Tales and Storytelling in Japan; 24: Still Telling in Japan: Traditional Folktellers; 25: P'ansori, the Ancient Korean Art of Storytelling; 26: Enduring Scars: Cautionary Tales Among the Senoi Semai, a Peaceable People of West Malaysia; 27: Professional Storytelling in West Sumatra; 28: The Tradition of Storytelling in Malaysia; 29: Thet Siang Performance in Isaan; 30: Storytelling: A Means to Maintain a Disappearing Language and Culture in Northeast Thailand; 3: Australia and the Pacific; 31: Nallawilli-Sit Down (and Listen). The Dreamtime Stories—An Oral Tradition; 32: Ka Ola Hou ‘Ana o ka ‘?lelo Hawai'i i ka Ha'i ‘Ana o ka Mo'olelo i Kéia Au Hou: The Revival of the Hawaiian Language in Contemporary Storytelling; 33: A Gossamer of Wisdom; 34: Tale Telling on a Polynesian Atoll; 4: Europe; 35: The Albanian World in the Folk Teller's Stories; 36: Basque Storytelling and the Living Oral Tradition; 37: Present-Day Storytelling in Northeastern Bulgaria; 38: Storytelling in Croatia; 39: Traditional Legends in Contemporary Estonian Folklore; 40: Factors Influencing the Formulation of Narration; 41: New Storytellers in France; 42: Storytelling in Spanish Galicia; 43: Traditional Storytelling Today in the East of Northern Germany; 44: Märchen 2000: Taking Care of the Fairy Tale in Germany; 45: Greek-Albanian (Arvanítika) Interactive Storytelling and the Legitimation of Critical Discourse; 46: Aspects of Narrative Tradition in a Greek Gypsy Community; 47: Folklore Repertoires: Male, Female; 48: Traditional Storytelling in Ireland in the Twentieth Century; 49: A Storyteller's Growing Consciousness; 50: Once Upon a Time in Vale Judeu; 51: Women's Stories Among Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Far East; 52: Storytelling Traditions in Scotland; 53: “Our Stories Are Not Just for Entertainment”: Lives and Stories Among the Travelling People of Scotland; 54: Storytelling in the Rhythm of People's Everyday Life: An investigation into Contemporary Slovakia; 55: Problems in Translation and Storytelling Using Switzerland as Example; 5: Middle East and North Africa; 56: Egyptian Peep-Show Storytelling; 57: Narrating Epics in Iran; 58: Stories About a Moroccan Storyteller; 59: Storytelling in Palestine; 60: Matrilineal Myths, Herbal Healing, and Gender in Tuareg Culture; 61: Tunisian Storytelling Today; 6: Native America; 62: Storytelling and Teaching: A Cree Example; 63: What's in an Ending? Indian Storytelling of the Inland Northwest; 64: Analysis of a Hupa Storytelling Event; 65: Traditional Storytelling at San Juan Pueblo; 66: Lushootseed Language and Story Revival; 7: North America; 67: Where Have All the Märchen Gone?: Or Don't They Tell Those Little Stories in the Ozarks Any More?; 68: Jack Tales; 69: Cowboy Poetry and Other Occupational Folk Poetry; 70: Del Ringer and His Tales of Salmon River, Idaho; 71: Fifty Functions of Storytelling; 72: “If We Don't Joke with Each Other, We Won't Have No Fun, Will We?” Storytelling in the Richard Family of Rangeley, Maine; 73: Stories of Emergency Medical Responders; 74: Storytelling Style and Community Codes Among the Swiss Volhynian Mennonites; 75: Storytellers and the Art of Storytelling in the Mexican Culture; 76: Traditional Storytelling Among French Newfoundlanders; 77: Logger Poetry; 8: South America; 78: Argentinian Folktale: A Genetic Approach; 79: The Art of Bahamian Narration; 80: “Fattening” in Belizean Creole Storytelling; 81: Holding on to the Past: Maya Storytelling in Belize; 82: Function and Performance of the Chilean Folktale Today; 83: Lira Popular in Chile: Between Traditional Poetry and Popular Urban Versifying; 84: Discourse and Storytelling in Otavalo Song: Resonance and Dissonance in San Juanitos; 85: Guaranitic Storytelling; 86: We Are the Real People: Tzotzil-Tzeltal Maya Storytelling on the Stage; 87: Fragments From the Past: The Politics of Storytelling in Morelos, Mexico; 88: Storytelling and Mental Representation Among Totonac Indians (Mexico); 89: Exemplary Ancestors and Pernicious Spirits: Sibundoy Concepts of Cultural Evolution; 90: Saramaka Maroon Folktales in Comparative Afro-American Perspective; 91: The Art of Storytelling: Field Observations in Venezuela; 9: Theory; 92: Children's Telling of Ghost Stories; 93: Organizational Storytelling; 94: The Role of Traditional Stories in Language Teaching and Learning; 95: The Storytelling Revival; 96: Preadolescent Girls' Storytelling; 97: An Analysis of Five Interviews with Storylisteners to Determine How They Perceive the Listening Experience; 98: Urban Legends; 99: Cross-Culture, Cross-Class, Crossed Wires: A Case Analysis of an Etic/Emic Storytelling Event; 100: The Nature of Women's Storytelling