Storytelling Around the World

<p><b>Explore 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.</b> <p/>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 it 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.</p>