DESCRIPTION
EDITORIAL POLICY
STORYTELLING, SELF, SOCIETY is an
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.
Our purpose is 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; 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.
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ABOUT THE LOGO
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 protrays 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. |
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