Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Creating webs of significace: The role of narrative in socio-cultural construction of reality -- Chapter 3. The narrative sharing of words: Storytelling as communicative interaction -- Chapter 4. Exploring the structure of narrated worlds: The search for study schemata -- Chapter 5. The Beautiful and the Beasty: Cultural specifics of Anglo-Western narrative aesthetics -- Chapter 6. Always keeping track: Text building strategies in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunyjatjara storytelling -- Chapter 7. Holding the world in place: The interrelatedness of story, practice, and culture -- Chapter 8. Conclusions and implications -- Backmatter
Summary
Narrative as Social Practice sets out to explore the complex and fascinating interrelatedness of narrative and culture. It does so by contrasting the oral storytelling traditions of two widely divergent cultures - Anglo-Western culture and the Central Aus
