SSS JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
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EDITORIAL POLICY

STORYTELLING, SELF, SOCIETY is a double-blind peer reviewed interdisciplinary journal that invites scholarship addressing any topic related to Storytelling -- from its role as performing art to contemporary applications in a variety of professional fields. We welcome manuscripts from scholars in humanities and social science disciplines, (including psychology, library science, literary studies, folklore, anthropology, sociology, communication, rhetoric, performance studies, theatre, history, feminist and queer studies, and ethnography) as well as from storytelling artists and practitioners, including those applying storytelling in the fields of education, health care, social  work, business, law, peace-building and environmental education.  Storytelling is a hyperlink discipline, which stands at the headwaters of all disciplinarity in education and cultural transmission. In the course of telling a story one is able to yoke together issues of history, sociology, anthropology, literature, music, theatre, psychology, religion, law, medicine, communication, and more, all through the natural linkages of the narrative mode. The contemporary revival of storytelling has grown through the fit between narrative thinking and the contrapuntal knowledge organization born of the evolution from linear to hyperlink technology, a correspondence which has only minimally emerged from the cultural unconscious, especially in domains such as the academy which are still beholden to the paradigm of print.

STORYTELLING, SELF, SOCIETY intends to gather the building blocks of new disciplinary roles, structures and methodologies for Storytelling in the 21st century. We seek articles that reflect the highest standards of the various disciplines on which we draw, and to which we intend to contribute. In addition to standard monographs, STORYTELLING, SELF, SOCIETY seeks to extend the critical vocabulary of contemporary storytelling, and so solicits reviews of  storytelling performances and individual texts, as well as essays that review several performances and texts. We also recognize that storytelling is a longstanding discipline in itself -- an integral mode of understanding and illuminating the world. Thus we welcome personal ethnography and reflection, as well as stories that have evolved from the oral tradition and reflect upon the endurance and evolution of oral traditions in the present day. We recognize the profound and often contested influences of storytelling and cultural narratives on the health of the individual, the community, and the planet. We seek ways to evaluate, measure, and focus those influences to impact our scholarship, our disciplines, our society, and ourselves.

In keeping with an interdisciplinary journal, monographs and review essays in STORYTELLING, SELF, SOCIETY are written in prose that is appropriate for a wide range of scholars and educated readers rather than the specialized jargon of a specific discipline.

The Storytelling, Self, Society logo image is based on the figure of the antlered man on the Gundestrup Cauldron, National Museum (nationalmuseet) in Copenhagen. The silver cauldron, found in a peat bog in Denmark, is believed to be a ritual vessel of Celtic origin, which dates from the La Tene period of the Iron Age. The antlered man may be an image of the Celtic horned god Cernunnos or another Celtic deity. As an archetype, Cernunnos is considered the Celtic Father of Animals, an image associated with mature masculine energy in balance with the natural world. The logo image portrays the forest god in a typical yoga pose of meditation. Around his neck he wears the torc, possibly commemorating his sacred marriage to Mother Earth. In his right hand is a torc, a possible symbol of initiation; in his left is the ram-headed serpent, connected to vitality and power.