narrative Culture Volume 5, Number 1

Growing Up in Magical Time: Representations of Female Growth and Development in ABC’s Once Upon a Time
Katherine Whitehurst

Dialogic Subjectivity: Narrating the Self in Stories about Others
Christine J. Widmayer
 

Myth and Cloth from India: The Kalamkari Collection in the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich
Paola Von Wyss-Giacosa
 

Cultural Intimacy and Othering through Narrative Culture: Folktales about the Finnish Roma
Eija Stark
 

Symbolic Distinctions in Traditional Palestinian Toponymy: Class, Gender, and Village Prestige in Palestinian Space in Israel
Amer Dahamshe

A Mirror for Princesses: Mūnis-nāma, a Twelfth-Century Collection of Persian Tales Corresponding to the Ottoman Turkish Tales of the Faraj baʿ d al-shidda
Nasrin Askari 

Narrative Culture claims narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective to grasp its place comparatively across time and space. Inviting contributions that document, discuss, and theorize narrative culture, the journal seeks to offer a platform that integrates approaches spread across numerous disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is available in print and online from Wayne State University Press.