Storytelling around the World
Subtitle: Folktales, Narrative Rituals, and Oral Traditions
By: Jelena Cvorovic and Kathryn Coe
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2023
Place of publication: Santa Barbara
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9798216019398
Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
Description: This book provides students, instructors, and lay-readers with a cross-cultural understanding of storytelling as an art form that has existed for centuries, from the first spoken and sung stories to those that are drawn and performed today.  This book serves as an indispensable resource for students and scholars interested in storytelling and in multicultural approaches to the arts. By taking an evolutionary approach, this book begins with a discussion of origin stories and continues through history to stories of the 21st century. The text not only engages the stories themselves, it also explains how individuals from all disciplines, from doctors and lawyers to priests and journalists, use stories to focus their readers' and listeners' attention and influence them.  This text addresses stories and storytelling across both time (thousands of years) and geography, including in-depth descriptions of storytelling practices occurring in more than 40 different cultures around the world. Part I consists of thematic essays, exploring such topics as the history of storytelling, common elements across cultures, different media, lessons stories teach us, and storytelling today. Part II looks at more than 40 different cultures, with entries following the same outline: Overview, Storytellers: Who Tell the Stories, and When, Creation Mythologies, Teaching Tales and Values, and Cultural Preservation. Several tales/tale excerpts accompany each entry.
Table of contents: title: Preface Introduction: Why Is Storytelling Important? Part I: Thematic Essays History of Storytelling around the World (or the Origin and Early History of Storytelling) Common Storytelling Elements across Cultures Storytelling Media: Oral, Art, and Music Lessons Stories Teach Us The Birth and Development of 21st-Century Stories Part II: Storytelling across Cultural Groups Africa Ashanti Azande Baganda Bemba Berber Bulu Dahomeans Fjort Hadjerai Hausa Ju/'Hoansi Bushmen Khoikhoi/Hottentot Limba Maasai Malagasy Nandi Swahili Yoruba Zulu South America Añangu Kichwa People of the Rio Napo Chachi (also the Cayapa) Inca Empire Muisca (Chibcha) Runa (Canelos Quichua) North America Anishinaabe People, Ojibwe, Chippewa, and Saulteaux Cheyenne Nations, or Tsétsehést?hese Comanche Nation (Numunu) Delaware Nation (Lenape, Lenni-Lenape, Munsee) Hopi Navajo (Diné) Pima, Akimel O'odham Tohono O'Odham Nation Asia and Oceania Ainu Andamanese, The Great Buryats Chukchee Enga Iban Ifugao Maori Nhunggabarras Somaip Wheelman Europe Basque Roma/Gypsies, Balkan Saami Middle East Bedouins, Negev Kurds Mandaeans Glossary Bibliography Index