TY - BOOK ID - 86105980 TI - The storytelling human PY - 2020 SN - 1644694247 1644694255 1644694239 9781644694251 9781644694244 9781644694237 PB - Boston DB - UniCat KW - Folklore KW - Baltic culture. KW - Lithuanian folklore. KW - humor. KW - ideology. KW - internet lore. KW - life story. KW - lived experience. KW - mental landscape. KW - narrative. KW - national identity. KW - oral history. KW - post-Soviet culture. KW - proverb. KW - storytelling. KW - tradition. KW - vernacular. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86105980 AB - This book is among the very few publications offering to the English-speaking readership significant insights into contemporary Lithuanian folklore research. Dealing with broad variety of materials—from archived manuscripts to audio-recorded life stories to internet folklore, it comprises such topics as history and identity, traditional worldview influencing modern people’s actions, construction of the mental landscape, types and modes of storytelling, the modern uses of proverbs, anecdotes, and internet lore. In a balanced way reflecting upon past and present, tradition and modernity, individual and collective, and employing modern research methodologies to dissect and analyze popular subjects and themes, the eight separate essays comprising the book present a condensed view of the popular Lithuanian culture and mentality. ER -