Global Storytelling and Local Cultural Preservation and Revitalization

Abstract

This paper introduces a storytelling project that aims to preserve and revitalize local cultural heritage in Isan or northeast Thailand. The paper explains how this local storytelling project has developed a global aspect through our meeting with international storytellers. Their many storytelling styles have influenced our own work, and ours has influenced theirs. Finally, we discover that global storytelling can nurture the communities of international storytellers through the ideology of reciprocity.

Notes

1. I have since learned that similar projects using folktales to instill cultural pride have been used in Native American communities in the United States (Cantoni), but at that time I did not know of this.