Traditional storytelling today : an international sourcebook / edited by Margaret Read MacDonald ; contributing editors, John H. McDowell, Linda Dégh, Barre Toelken.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: MacDonald, Margaret Read, 1940-, McDowell, John Holmes, 1946-, Dégh, Linda, Toelken, Barre, 1935-2018
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Hunters' Narratives / Stephen Belcher
  • Central African Epics / Stephen Belcher
  • To Make Our World a Gentler, More Compassionate World / Raouf Mama
  • The Fulani Epics / Christiane Seydou
  • The Ga Folktale : Context, Themes, and Techniques / Abu Shardow Abarry
  • The Igbo Folk Epic / Chukwuma Azuonye
  • Igbo Stories and Storytelling / Chukwuma Azuonye
  • The Meaning of the "Meaningless" Refrain in Igbo Folk Songs and Storytelling Events / Chukwuma Azuonye
  • The Dogon Creation Story / Chukwumu Azuonye
  • The Storytelling Event Among the Igede of Nigeria / Ode Ogede
  • Ju/'hoan Folktales and Storytelling : Context and Variability / Megan Biesele
  • Storytelling : A Thread of Life Within the Kamba Community / Vincent Muli Wa Kituku
  • Narrative Performance in a Changing World : The Case of the "Storytellers" in Kenya / Ezekiel B. Alembi
  • The Meditation of Time, the Wisdom of the Teller, the Void of the World / Sory Camara
  • Part II. Asia
  • The Chantefable Tradition of Suzbou / Mark Bender
  • Antiphonal Epics of the Miao (Hmong) of Guizhou, China / Mark Bender
  • Rajasthani Hero Legends / Lindsey Harlan
  • Two Contemporary Performances of Savitri in Pune, India / Lee-Ellen Marvin
  • Saneguruji Storytelling Academy : Transformation of Domestic Storytelling in India / Lee-Ellen Marvin
  • Storytelling in Middle-Class Indian Families / Lee-Ellen Marvin
  • A System of Narrative Performances in Middle India / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
  • Indonesian Storytellers and Storytelling / James Danandjaja
  • Religious Tales and Storytelling in Japan / Richard W. Anderson
  • Still Telling in Japan : Traditional Folktellers / Cathy Spagnoli
  • P'ansori, the Ancient Korean Art of Storytelling / Chan E. Park
  • Enduring Scars : Cautionary Tales Among the Senoi Semai, a Peaceable People of West Malaysia / Robert Knox Dentan
  • Professional Storytelling in West Sumatra / Nigel Phillips
  • The Tradition of Storytelling in Malaysia / Mohammed Taib Osman
  • Thet Siang Performance in Isaan / Wajuppa Tossa
  • Storytelling : A Means to Maintain a Disappearing Language and Culture in Northeast Thailand / Wajuppa Tossa
  • Part III. Australia and the Pacific
  • Nallawilli-Sit Down (and Listen) : The Dreamtime Stories
  • An Oral Tradition / Pauline E. Campbell-McLeod
  • Ka Ola Hou 'Ana o ka 'Olelo Hawai'i ka Ha'i 'Ana o ka Mo'olelo i Keia Au Hou : The Revival of the Hawaiian Language in Contemporary Storytelling / Ku'ualoha Meyer-Ho'omanawanui
  • A Gossamer of Wisdom / Hinekahukura Barrett-Aranui
  • Tale Telling on a Polynesian Atoll / Michael Lieber
  • Part IV. Europe
  • The Albanian World in the Folk Teller's Stories / Ramadan Sokoli
  • Basque Storytelling and the Living Oral Tradition / Linda White
  • Present-Day Storytelling in Northeastern Bulgaria / Yordanka Kotseva
  • Storytelling in Croatia / Ljiljana Marks
  • Traditional Legends in Contemporary Estonian Folklore / Ulo Valk
  • Factors Influencing the Formulation of Narration / Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhoj
  • New Storytellers in France / Veronika Gorog-Karady
  • Storytelling in Spanish Galicia / Kristin Bervig Valentine, Eugene Valentine
  • Traditional Storytelling Today in the East of Northern Germany / Siegfried Neumann
  • Marchen : Taking Care of the Fairy Tale in Germany / Sabine Wienker-Piepho
  • Greek-Albanian (Arvanitika) Interactive Storytelling and the Legitimation of Critical Discourse / Lukas D. Tsitsipis
  • Aspects of Narrative Tradition in a Greek Gypsy Community / Diane Tong
  • Folklore Repertoires : Male, Female / Ilona Nagy
  • Traditional Storytelling in Ireland in the Twentieth Century / Patricia Lysaght
  • A Storyteller's Growing Consciousness / Inta Gale Carpenter
  • Once Upon a Time in Vale Judeu / Isabel Cardigos
  • Women's Stories Among Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Far East / Kira Van Deusen
  • Storytelling Traditions in Scotland / Barbara McDermitt
  • "Our Stories Are Not Just for Entertainment" : Lives and Stories Among the Travelling People of Scotland / Donald Braid
  • Storytelling in the Rhythm of People's Everyday Life : An Investigation into Contemporary Slovakia / Gabriela Kilianova
  • Problems in Translation and Storytelling Using Switzerland as Example / Barbara Gobrecht
  • Part V. Middle East and North Africa
  • Egyptian Peep-Show Storytelling / Kamal el dien Hussien
  • Narrating Epics in Iran / Mahmoud Omidsalar, Teresa Omidsalar
  • Stories About a Moroccan Storyteller / Deborah A. Kapchan
  • Storytelling in Palestine / Ibrahim Muhawi
  • Matrilineal Myths, Herbal Healing, and Gender in Tuareg Culture / Susan Rasmussen
  • Tunisian Storytelling Today / Sabra Webber
  • Part VI. Native America
  • Storytelling and Teaching : A Cree Example / Kay Stone
  • What's in an Ending? : Indian Storytelling of the Inland Northwest / Rodney Frey
  • Analysis of a Hupa Storytelling Event / Ruth Seiman Bennett
  • Traditional Storytelling at San Juan Pueblo / Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Esther Martinez (P'oe Tsawa)
  • Lushootseed Language and Story Revival / Vi (taq[superscript w] seblu) Hilbert
  • Part VII. North America
  • Where Have All the Marchen Gone? : Or Don't They Tell Those Little Stories in the Ozarks Any More? / W.K. McNeil
  • Jack Tales / Carl Lindahl
  • Cowboy Poetry and Other Occupational Folk Poetry / Jens Lund
  • Del Ringer and His Tales of Salmon River, Idaho / Marjorie Bennett
  • Fifty Functions of Storytelling / Margaret Read MacDonald
  • "If We Don't Joke with Each Other, We Won't Have No Fun, Will We?" : Storytelling in the Richard Family of Rangeley, Maine / Margaret Yocom
  • Stories of Emergency Medical Responders / Timothy R. Tangherlini
  • Storytelling Style and Community Codes Among the Swiss Volhynian Mennonites / John McCabe-Juhnke
  • Storytellers and the Art of Storytelling in the Mexican Culture / Rosario S. Morales
  • Traditional Storytelling Among French Newfoundlanders / Gerald Thomas
  • Logger Poetry / Jens Lund
  • Part VIII. South America
  • Argentinian Folktale : A Genetic Approach / Maria Palleiro
  • The Art of Bahamian Narration / Daniel J. Crowley
  • "Fattening" in Belizean Creole Storytelling / Ervin Beck
  • Holding on to the Past : Maya Storytelling in Belize / David Pendergast
  • Function and Performance of the Chilean Folktale Today / Manuel Dannemann
  • Lira Popular in Chile : Between Traditional Poetry and Popular Urban Versifying / Marcela Orellana
  • Discourse and Storytelling in Otavalo Song : Resonance and Dissonance in San Juanitos / Linda D'Amico
  • Guaranitic Storytelling / Martha Blache
  • We Are the Real People : Tzotzil-Tzeltal Maya Storytelling on the Stage / Robert Laughlin
  • Fragments From the Past : The Politics of Storytelling in Morelos, Mexico / JoAnn Martin
  • Storytelling and Mental Representation Among Totonac Indians (Mexico) / Annamaria Lammel
  • Exemplary Ancestors and Pernicious Spirits : Sibundoy Concepts of Cultural Evolution / John H. McDowell
  • Saramaka Maroon Folktales in Comparative Afro-American Perspective / Richard Price, Sally Price
  • The Art of Storytelling : Field Observations in Venezuela / Daniel Mato
  • Part IX. Theory
  • Children's Telling of Ghost Stories / Sylvia Grider
  • Organizational Storytelling / Richard Raspa
  • The Role of Traditional Stories in Language Teaching and Learning / Martha S. Bean
  • The Storytelling Revival / Joseph Sobol
  • Preadolescent Girls' Storytelling / Elizabeth Tucker
  • An Analysis of Five Interviews with Storylisteners to Determine How They Perceive the Listening Experience / Brian Sturm
  • Urban Legends / Jan Harold Brunvand
  • Cross-Culture, Cross-Class, Crossed Wires : A Case Analysis of an Etic/Emic Storytelling Event / Wendy Welch
  • The Nature of Women's Storytelling / Linda Degh.