The Anthrogirl Podcast

Storytelling

Everyone loves stories.  People snooze in classrooms and during religious services, but never when a spooky story is told around a campfire.  These are some of my favorites, collected by anthropologists during field research.




Bibliography:
Grimble, Arthur, A Gilbertese Creation Myth, In Reader in Comparative Religion, Lessa & Vogt, eds. Harper and Row, 1965.

Beals, Allan, Gopalpur: A South Indian Village. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962

Chagnon, Napolean, Yanomamo, The Fierce People. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 3rd edition. 1983

Pierce, Joe, Life in a Turkish Village. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

John Middleton Hyena and Rabbit: A Kaguru Representation. In Myth and Cosmos, John Middleton, ed. University of Texas Press, 1967