Project MUSE®: Narrative Culture - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Narrative Culture.daily12026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 5 (2018) through current issueLatest Articles: Narrative CultureTWOProject MUSE®Narrative Culture2169-02512169-0235Latest articles in Narrative Culture. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Mistaken for Narrative: A Closer Look at Small Texts
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987465
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In Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative (2022), Peter Brooks laments the "narrative takeover of reality" in which so many professions and so many industries have convinced themselves that they either already tell or should be telling stories (4). Books like Annette Simmons' The Story Factor (2006) promise us narrative ways to win friends and influence people, and those like Matthew Dicks' Storyworthy (2018) assure us that just by collecting our own stories in a systematic way, we can deepen our understandings of ourselves. Whether our attention is turned outward or inward, stories would appear to be the key in what Christian Salmon has termed the "nouvel ordre narratif" (ix). As both Brooks and Salmon
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/756/image/coversmallMistaken for Narrative: A Closer Look at Small Texts2026-04-09text/htmlen-USMistaken for Narrative: A Closer Look at Small Texts2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®876942026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09Papelitos Recuperados: Using Visual-Curatorial Narrative to Recover My History
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987467
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In the fall of 2021, grappling with mounting health concerns and economic uncertainty, I approached the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) with the idea of writing an arts-based education grant. In response, the museum director invited me to curate an art show to which I agreed, stating I would focus on building an art show inspired by my family: the one I had come from and the one I saw myself building with local community members. With the support and mentorship of the museum's staff and locally-based artists with whom I had worked over the years, I curated my first art show, "Two Cultures, One Family—Building Family, Finding Home" (Abad) that featured thirteen artists
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/756/image/coversmallPapelitos Recuperados: Using Visual-Curatorial Narrative to Recover My History2026-04-09text/htmlen-USPapelitos Recuperados: Using Visual-Curatorial Narrative to Recover My History2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®629832026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09The Call of Spirits and Mental Disorders: Belief Narratives of Prospective Shamans in Contemporary Northeast China
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987468
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This research discusses the shamanic spirit mediums' perception and cognition of various mental and physical disorders and the shamans' association with spirits in northeast China, highlighting the formation of shamanic worldview in the communicative process of small groups (see Ben-Amos). More specifically, this article focuses on narratives associated with experiences and events that occurred in the budding stage of one's shamanic career when their life is disturbed by sufferings like diseases suggesting the call of spirit(s). According to folklorist Thomas A. Dubois, shamans often point to a period of disease in their personal lives as a pivotal event that led to one or more spirits making themselves available
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/756/image/coversmallThe Call of Spirits and Mental Disorders: Belief Narratives of Prospective Shamans in Contemporary Northeast China2026-04-09text/htmlen-USThe Call of Spirits and Mental Disorders: Belief Narratives of Prospective Shamans in Contemporary Northeast China2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®929052026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09Do Our Children Still Need Folktales? Contemporary Attitudes and Adaptations in Lithuania
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987469
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As the images of fear and violence in various forms have permeated societies around the world since the beginning of human civilization, it is not surprising that such topics are also present in folktales. Over centuries, folktales developed culturally specific details that can involve elements of cruelty and horror: parents abandoning their children in the woods; witches catching little children to bake them in the oven and devour them. As Linda Dégh pointed out, folktales could have appeared and existed in an environment suitable for them, because:
The folktale arises from a need experienced at a certain stage of development in human society. It is the circumstances which generate a folktale, which form its
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/756/image/coversmallDo Our Children Still Need Folktales? Contemporary Attitudes and Adaptations in Lithuania2026-04-09text/htmlen-USDo Our Children Still Need Folktales? Contemporary Attitudes and Adaptations in Lithuania2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®932662026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09Used-To Stories: Toward a New Model for Ethnographic Writing and Narrative Collections
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987470
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"Used-to." The phrase in its multilingual forms is ubiquitous in oral traditions across the globe. For oral historians, it signals a data point; for folklorists, all too often a cursory glance before moving on to recognizable narrative genres. Yet today when "narrative" and "story" have become pervasive across the social sciences, clarifying the boundaries of narrative is not just useful but necessary. The task is hardly a simple one. Examination of stories in situ highlights the blurry boundaries of narrative and the pervasiveness of what I have termed "used-to" stories: a type of "generalized experience narrative" that mediates the specific and habitual event. Attending to structure and temporality, narrative
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/756/image/coversmallUsed-To Stories: Toward a New Model for Ethnographic Writing and Narrative Collections2026-04-09text/htmlen-USUsed-To Stories: Toward a New Model for Ethnographic Writing and Narrative Collections2026-04-092026TWOProject MUSE®933992026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002026-04-09