Narrative Culture, Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2026

Narrative Culture claims narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective to grasp its place comparatively across time and space. Inviting contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, the journal seeks to offer a platform that integrates approaches spread across numerous disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. 

Volume 13, Number 1 (Spring 2026)

Mistaken for Narrative: A Closer Look at Small Texts
John Laudun

Used-To Stories: Toward a New Model for Ethnographic Writing and Narrative Collections
Tom Mould

Papelitos Recuperados: Using Visual-Curatorial Narrative to Recover My History
Erika G. Abad

The Call of Spirits and Mental Disorders: Belief Narratives of Prospective Shamans in Contemporary Northeast China
Haozhen Li

Do Our Children Still Need Folktales? Contemporary Attitudes and Adaptations in Lithuania
Jūratė Šlekonytė