Not Ever Absent Storytelling In Arts Culture And Identity Formation

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781848883376

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Not Ever Absent: Storytelling in Arts, Culture and Identity Formation by Anonim Pdf

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2015. Storytelling has always played a central role in the formation of cultures and communities. All cultures define themselves and their place in the world through their stories. Similarly, our identities are largely constructed as narratives, and it is with the aid of storytelling that we manage to conceive of ourselves – our selves – as meaningful wholes. Thus, storytelling is not ever absent: it is to be found in literature, social life, in the places we visit and the buildings we live in. This volume presents storytelling in various appearances: from ancient myths and oral history, to transmedia narratives and digital stories. Different forms of narrative are analysed, as is the use of storytelling as a method for e.g. counselling, education and research. Throughout twenty-five chapters, a compelling overview of recent research on the topic is provided, both stressing the omnipresence of storytelling and exploring what storytelling is and isn’t.

Author : Mih?e?, Lorena Clara,Andreescu, Raluca,Dimitriu, Anda
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781799866077

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Handbook of Research on Contemporary Storytelling Methods Across New Media and Disciplines by Mih?e?, Lorena Clara,Andreescu, Raluca,Dimitriu, Anda Pdf

Stories are everywhere around us, from the ads on TV or music video clips to the more sophisticated stories told by books or movies. Everything comes wrapped in a story, and the means employed to weave the narrative thread are just as important as the story itself. In this context, there is a need to understand the role storytelling plays in contemporary society, which has changed drastically in recent decades. Modern global society is no longer exclusively dominated by the time-tested narrative media such as literature or films because new media such as videogames or social platforms have changed the way we understand, create, and replicate stories. The Handbook of Research on Contemporary Storytelling Methods Across New Media and Disciplines is a comprehensive reference book that provides the relevant theoretical framework that concerns storytelling in modern society, as well as the newest and most varied analyses and case studies in the field. The chapters of this extensive volume follow the construction and interpretation of stories across a plethora of contemporary media and disciplines. By bringing together radical forms of storytelling in traditional disciplines and methods of telling stories across newer media, this book intersects themes that include interactive storytelling and narrative theory across advertisements, social media, and knowledge-sharing platforms, among others. It is targeted towards professionals, researchers, and students working or studying in the fields of narratology, literature, media studies, marketing and communication, anthropology, religion, or film studies. Moreover, for interested executives and entrepreneurs or prospective influencers, the chapters dedicated to marketing and social media may also provide insights into both the theoretical and the practical aspects of harnessing the power of storytelling in order to create a cohesive and impactful online image.

Author : Carlo Comanducci,Alex Wilkinson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004387683

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Matters of Telling: The Impulse of the Story by Carlo Comanducci,Alex Wilkinson Pdf

In this book, the performance and the textual dimension of storytelling is investigated and expanded through a series of multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies that focus upon the materiality and the embodiment of the act of telling.

Author : Ozlem Ezer
Publisher : Transnational Press London
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781801351409

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Drinking, Fasting, and Tattoos: Syrian Women’s Lived Islam by Ozlem Ezer Pdf

Drinking, Fasting, and Tattoos reveals the problematics of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies via Lived Religion (LR) by using qualitative and collaborative methodologies. It offers LR as a potential recovery for the tensions across different disciplines of gender and women’s studies, theology, migration studies, and religious studies. It also problematizes major assumptions about Islam that have led to the current scholarship, such as churchification of Islam in Europe. It breaks a tripled silence around women, refugees, and unaffiliated Muslims. It draws attention to permeable boundaries between academic disciplines, secular and religious, researcher and researched divides while challenging current paradigms in academia, particularly the ones that still validate Euro-American frameworks. More specifically, Syrian women refugees whose representations can be expanded to Muslim women migrants in the Global North, present firsthand accounts regarding their faith-based practices and interpretations of Islam. The accounts reveal empowerment, resilience, and post-traumatic growth, and thus agency in unlikely places.

Author : Marianne Dainton,Elaine D. Zelley
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781544385969

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Applying Communication Theory for Professional Life by Marianne Dainton,Elaine D. Zelley Pdf

Now in its fifth edition, Applying Communication Theory for Professional Life is the first communication theory textbook to provide practical material for career-oriented students. Featuring new case studies, updated examples, and the latest research, authors Marianne Dainton and Elaine D. Zelley introduce communication theory in a way that helps students understand its importance to careers in communication and business. Real-world case studies within each chapters are designed for in-class use to illustrate the application of theory in a variety of professional settings. The Fifth edition features eight new theories, a new chapter on theories of strategic communication, and expanded discussions of mediated communication theories.

Author : Noëlle van der Waag-Cowling,Louise Leenen
Publisher : Academic Conferences and publishing limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781912764129

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ICCWS 2019 14th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security by Noëlle van der Waag-Cowling,Louise Leenen Pdf

Author : Constance Devereaux,M. A Griffin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1299939023

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Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World by Constance Devereaux,M. A Griffin Pdf

The story of arts and cultural policy in the twenty-first century is inherently of global concern no matter how local it seems. At the same time, questions of identity have in many ways become more challenging than before. Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World explores how and why stories and identities sometimes merge and often clash in an arena in which culture and policy may not be able to resolve every difficulty. DeVereaux and Griffin argue that the role of narrative is key to understanding these issues. They offer a wide-ranging history and justification for narrative frameworks as an approach to cultural policy and open up a wider field of discussion about the ways in which cultural politics and cultural identity are being deployed and interpreted in the present, with deep roots in the past. This timely book will be of great interest not just to students of narrative and students of arts and cultural policy, but also to administrators, policy theorists, and cultural management practitioners.

Author : Yvette Nolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1770911324

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The Unplugging by Yvette Nolan Pdf

In this tale of survival, two women are exiled from their post-apocalyptic village because they have passed their child-bearing years.

Author : Hansson, Thomas
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781599049717

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Handbook of Research on Digital Information Technologies: Innovations, Methods, and Ethical Issues by Hansson, Thomas Pdf

"This book provides a collection of successful designs, defined as communicative relation-building solutions, for individuals and collectives of interlocutors. It includes a longitudinal perspective of past mistakes, current trends and future opportunities, and is a must-have for beginners in the field as well as qualified professionals exploring the full potential of human interactions"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Alexandra Green
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789888390885

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Buddhist Visual Cultures, Rhetoric, and Narrative in Late Burmese Wall Paintings by Alexandra Green Pdf

Step into a Burmese temple built between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries and you are surrounded by a riot of color and imagery. The majority of the highly detailed wall paintings displays Buddhist biographical narratives, inspiring the devotees to follow the Buddha’s teachings. Alexandra Green goes one step further to consider the temples and their contents as a whole, arguing that the wall paintings mediate the relationship between the architecture and the main Buddha statues in the temples. This forges a unified space for the devotees to interact with the Buddha and his community, with the aim of transforming the devotees’ current and future lives. These temples were a cohesively articulated and represented Burmese Buddhist world to which the devotees belonged. Green’s visits to more than 160 sites with identifiable subject matter form the basis of this richly illustrated volume, which draws upon art historical, anthropological, and religious studies methodologies to analyze the wall paintings and elucidate the contemporary religious, political, and social concepts that drove the creation of this lively art form. “Buddhist Visual Cultures, Rhetoric, and Narrative in Late Burmese Wall Paintings is truly a tour de force that allows us to see Burmese temple paintings of the Life of the Buddha and similar themes as an open-ended genre that, like literary discourse, participates in wider social, intellectual, and religious contexts.” —Juliane Schober, Arizona State University “Alexandra Green introduces this relatively unknown material and subjects it to sophisticated analysis. This study is major step towards creating a template that could be used for analyzing other late traditions of Buddhist painting.” —Janice Leoshko, University of Texas at Austin

Author : John Clammer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317687795

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Art, Culture and International Development by John Clammer Pdf

Culture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if it is to be both valued in itself and to be of use in practical development. This innovative book places culture, specifically in the form of the arts, back at the centre of debates in development studies by introducing new ways of conceptualizing art in relation to development. The book shows how the arts and development are related in very practical ways – as means to achieve development goals through visual, dramatic, filmic and craft-inspired ways. It advocates not so much culture and development, but rather for the development of culture. Without a cultural content to economic and social transformation the problems found in much development – up-rooting of cultures, loss of art forms, languages and modes of expression and performance – may only accelerate. Paying attention to the development of the arts as the content of development helps to amend this culturally destructive process. Finally, the book argues for the value of the arts in attaining sustainable cultures, promoting poverty alleviation, encouraging self-empowerment, stimulating creativity and the social imagination, which in turn flow back into wider processes of social transformation. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter make this book ideal to help foster further thinking and debate. This book is an inspiring read for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of development studies, cultural studies and sociology of development.

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780887846960

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The Truth about Stories by Thomas King Pdf

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Author : Eric Ayisi Akrofi,Maria Smit,Stig-Magnus Thorsén
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781919980850

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Music and Identity by Eric Ayisi Akrofi,Maria Smit,Stig-Magnus Thorsén Pdf

"Due to significant political and social changes over the last decade in their countries and worldwide, many scholars in the Nordic nations and in Southern Africa have been researching on 'music and identity' - an area with a paucity of literature. It is our hope that this book will be beneficial to scholars interested in the field of music and identity. This volume is the result of the Swedish South African Research Network (SSARN) project, funded from 2004-2006 by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa, under the theme 'Music and Identity'. SSARN was founded by Stig-Magnus Thorsén of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2002 when he invited Nordic and Southern African scholars to participate in a research group focusing broadly on the topic 'Music and Identity'"--Publisher's website.

Author : JoAnn Phillion,Ming Fang He,F. Michael Connelly
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452237787

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Narrative and Experience in Multicultural Education by JoAnn Phillion,Ming Fang He,F. Michael Connelly Pdf

Narrative and Experience in Multicultural Education explores the untapped potential that narrative and experiential approaches have for understanding multicultural issues in education. The research featured in the book reflects an exciting new way of thinking about human experience. The studies focus on the lives of students, teachers, parents, and communities, highlighting experiences seldom discussed in the literature. Most importantly, the work emphasizes the understanding of experience and transforming this understanding into social and educational significance.

Author : Jean Haskell
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780275943059

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Performance, Culture, and Identity by Jean Haskell Pdf

This volume is based on the premise that artistic performance is epistemological, a way of knowing self, culture, and other. The nine essays in this book, based on a broad range of ethnic, racial, and gender groups, share a common interest in exploring how performance reveals, shapes, and sometimes transforms personal and cultural identity. Editors Fine and Speer begin by examining the interdisciplinary roots of performance studies and the role of performance studies in the field of communication. They also discuss the power of performance to shape personal and cultural identity. The first two chapters explore the ritual nature of performance in two different cultural contexts: an African-American church service and an Appalachian storytelling event of the legendary Ray Hicks. In both arenas, the performers act as shamans, transporting the audience from their everyday, secular lives to the higher ground of the mythic spheres of heroic and fantastic events. The next three chapters discuss the notion of place and performance in various landscapes--the English countryside, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the farmland of the Midwest. Through analysis of the speech and songs of a modern Sussex yeoman, the ghost tales of Appalachian storytellers, and the narratives of Midwest farmers coping with hard times, the authors reveal a variety of ways in which narrative performances function to preserve people's relationship with the land. The last four chapters share a focus on women as storytellers. One chapter offers a feminist critique of personal narrative research and challenges normative assumptions about the storytelling behavior of women. Another chapter interprets a narration of a Galician woman's typical day to reveal how the performance expresses deeply held attitudes and beliefs of her cultural community. Words are not the only medium that women use to tell their stories. The next chapter examines the story cloths of Hmong women refugees from Laos as intercultural and dialogical performances. The last chapter explores self-discovery and identity in the storytelling of a woman in the last years of her life. This volume is particularly representative of the ways in which communication scholars approach performance studies, but will also interest researchers and students of folklore, anthropology, sociology, theatre, and related disciplines.