ISBN:
9781135917210
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (644 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Read MacDonald, Margaret: Traditional storytelling today
DDC:
398
Keywords:
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Erzählforschung
Abstract:
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; EDITOR'S NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ESSAYS Sub-Saharan Africa; Hunters' Narratives; Central African Epics; To Make Our World a Gentler, More Compassionate World; The Fulani Epics; The Ga Folktale: Context, Themes, and Techniques; The Igbo Folk Epic; Igbo Stories and Storytelling; The Meaning of the ""Meaningless"" Refrain in Igbo Folk Songs and Storytelling Events; The Dogon Creation Story; The Storytelling Event Among the Igede of Nigeria; Ju/'hoan Folktales and Storytelling: Context and Variability
Description / Table of Contents:
Storytelling: A Thread of Life Within the Kamba Community Narrative Performance in a Changing World: The Case of the ""Storytellers"" in Kenya; The Meditation of Time, the Wisdom of the Teller, the Void of the World; Asia; The Chantefable Tradition of Suzhou; Antiphonal Epics of the Miao (Hmong) of Guizhou, China; Rajasthani Hero Legends; Two Contemporary Performances of Savitri in Pune, India; Saneguruji Storytelling Academy: Transformation of Domestic Storytelling in India; Storytelling in Middle-Class Indian Families; A System of Narrative Performances in Middle India
Description / Table of Contents:
Indonesian Storytellers and Storytelling; Religious Tales and Storytelling in Japan; Still Telling in Japan: Traditional Folktellers; P'ansori, the Ancient Korean Art of Storytelling; Enduring Scars: Cautionary Tales Among the Senoi Semai, a Peaceable People of West Malaysia; Professional Storytelling in West Sumatra; The Tradition of Storytelling in Malaysia; Thet Siang Performance in Isaan; Storytelling: A Means to Maintain a Disappearing Language and Culture in Northeast Thailand; Australia and the Pacific; Nallawilli-Sit Down (and Listen): The Dreamtime Stories-An Oral Tradition
Description / Table of Contents:
Ka Ola Hou 'Ana o ka 'Ōlelo Hawai'i i ka Ha 'i 'Ana o ka Mo'olelo i Kēia Au Hou: The Revival of the Hawaiian Language in Contemporary StorytellingA Gossamer of Wisdom; Tale Telling on a Polynesian Atoll; Europe; The Albanian World in the Folk Teller's Stories; Basque Storytelling and the Living Oral Tradition; Present-Day Storytelling in Northeastern Bulgaria; Storytelling in Croatia; Traditional Legends in Contemporary Estonian Folklore; Factors Influencing the Formulation of Narration; New Storytellers in France; Storytelling in Spanish Galicia
Description / Table of Contents:
Traditional Storytelling Today in the East of Northern Germany; Märchen 2000: Taking Care of the Fairy Tale in Germany; Grėek-Albanian (Arvanítika) Interactive Storytelling and the Legitimation of Critical Discourse; Aspects of Narrative Tradition in a Greek Gypsy Community; Folklore Repertoires: Male, Female; Traditional Storytelling in Ireland in the Twentieth Century; A Storyteller's Growing Consciousness; Once Upon a Time in Vale Judeu; Women's Stories Among Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Far East; Storytelling Traditions in Scotland
Description / Table of Contents:
""Our Stories Are Not Just for Entertainment: Lives and Stories Among the Travelling People of Scotland
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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