How is anthropology relevant to story-making

Stories are the processes through which society (open-ended, ongoing activity) becomes culture (activity contextualised to specific circumstances). Stories are meaningful selections - deliberate or subconscious choices by people who construct and share their worldview by connecting certain elements in specific ways.

As accounts of experiences both real and imagined, stories are repeated and represented in different formats to help people make sense. Anthropologists tell and use stories to help make sense of how people in communities make sense.

The anthropology of storytelling recognises how all this sense-making through narrative is both an implement in the anthropologist’s toolbox and a practice employed by people in communities across the world.

Anthropological contribution to discussions about the 'future of storytelling' would help contextualise how stories are shaped, how they come deeply rooted in specific cultural contexts. It is critical to make these roots explicit // picture squealing, squirming story creature with long tentacles pulled out of writing mass below //