Norma J. Livo

Story Medicine (eBook, PDF)

Multicultural Tales of Healing and Transformation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Experience the extraordinary potential that stories hold-the power to heal, calm, and rejuvenate. This magical collection of more than 40 tales from around the world brims with wise words that illustrate many mysterious and sometimes simple ways to wellness and happiness. Through introductions, comments, and discussion starters, Livo provides guidance for reading and reflecting on each tale. The stories are organized into four main areas: healing the self, healing relationships, healing the community, and healing the Earth. In addition to an extensive bibliography, Livo offers a treasure trove of traditional proverbs and old-time herblore. An absolutely wonderful reading experience and resource for educators, parents, students, librarians, folklorists, storytellers, medical professionals, therapists, and anyone interested in folktales and healing. All Levels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313069819
• Artikelnr.: 37816904

Autorenporträt

Norma J. Livo, Professor Emerita, University of Colorado, Denver is the author and co-author of numerous books, many of them award-winners, including Storytelling: Process & Practice (Libraries Unlimited, 1986), Folk Stories of the Hmong (Libraries Unlimited, 1991), and Bringing Out Their Best (Libraries Unlimited, 2003). She served on the board of the National Storytelling Association, and is Founder of the Rocky Mountain Storytelling Conference. She has a national following as a storyteller and received NSN's 2002 ORACLE Award for Lifetime Achievement in storytelling.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Foreword by James R.Regan, M.D A Short History of Medicine
Introduction STORIES AND HEALING THE HEALING POWER OF STORIES Personal
Stories Getting Ready for Winter WHAT IS HEALING? The Healing Traditions of
the Past Ring Around the Roses Jack and Jill Leeches Leech to the Rescue
Legends of Mate (South America) Wine As Doctor (Germany) HOW STORIES HEAL
Stories As Connectors Humor As a Preventative and Cure Healing the Spirit,
the Family, and Society Aging and Death Process of Healing Through
Narrative THE STORIES HEALING THE SELF The Princess Who Would Not Laugh
(Norway) Iron Logic (Traditional Jewish Folktale) The Old Woman and the
Physician (Greece) The Greedy Youngster (Norway) The Princess and the
Soldiers (Scotland) Intelligence and Luck (Slavonia) The Cure for Axe
Wounds in the Knee (Finland) Dance Like Nobody Is Watching (American Urban
Myth) The Maiden Without Hands (Grimm Brothers, Germany) A Journey to the
Underworld (Bantu) Salt (Russia) Guru's Advice (Tibet) Anansi's Greed for
Common Sense (Jamaica) The Dog and the Wolf (Aesop, Greece) HEALING
RELATIONSHIPS The Cure (Syria) A Bird Couple's Vow (Hmong) The Lute Player
(Russia) The Seventh Night of the Seventh Month (China) The Lake of Healing
or Loughleagh (Ireland) Grandfather's Corner (Germany) The Doll (Ukraine)
The Tiger's Whisker (Korea) The Mirror (China) The Seven Swans (Europe)
HEALING THE COMMUNITY A Blessing Might in Fact Be a Curse (Ethiopia and
Sudan) Mulla Nasreddin (Persia) Stone Soup (Ireland) The Ugly Duckling
(Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark) Silver Heels (Colorado, United States)
The Wonder Doctor (Estonia) Constantine, the Emperor of Rome (Ancient Rome)
The Holmolaiset Build a House (Finland) I'd Pick More Daisies (United
States) Abandonment Canyon (Japan) The Golden Cup (Buryat) The Story of the
Owl (Hmong) HEALING THE EARTH The Little Water Medicine (Seneca) The
Medicine Spear (Zambia) The Legend of Hackberry Hill (Colorado, United
States) The Ptarmigan (Japan) The Rainbow (Iroquois) The Fallibility of
Chiefs (Zaire) Creation, Flood, Naming Story (Hmong) The Grateful Foxes
(Japan) Tibetan Creation (Tibet) Where Stories Come From (Seneca, Huron,
and Wyandot) Appendix I: Healing Beliefs and Lore Beliefs and Practices
Throughout the World Navajo Health Care System Foods That Are Taken When
Ill (Hmong) Folk Medicine Herbal Lore from Around the World Proverbs and
Quotes Appendix II: Roots of Western Medicine Hippocratic Oath The Caduceus
Bibliography Internet Organizations Index