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. Describes the earliest
evidence of storytelling, which dates back thousands of years, and
discusses how we can learn about our ancestors and their lives and
concerns going all the way back to the stories depicted in the cave
art they left behind Discusses how the content of stories has
changed over time, influenced by such things as the development of
agriculture, the establishment of the first urban centers, the
invention of the printing press, widespread literacy, the
industrial revolution, and scientific discoveries Explains how our
response to storytelling-why stories interest us and why we
continue to tell and listen to stories-is an inheritance from our
ancient ancestors Investigates storytelling practices from more
than 40 different culture groups around the world Incorporates text
and translations of original stories told across cultures, almost
verbatim, for thousands of years
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