Traditional Storytelling Today

An International Sourcebook
Herausgeber: Read MacDonald, Margaret

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 644
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1390g
• ISBN-13: 9781579580117
• ISBN-10: 1579580114
• Artikelnr.: 21908192

Autorenporträt

Margaret Read MacDonald

Inhaltsangabe

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