This document discusses how cultural products and practices communicate through fictions or myths. Myths are ways of explaining and organizing perceptions of the world to make shared cultural understandings seem natural. The document examines how fictions define culture by communicating cultural norms and values, and providing structural frameworks for people to enact and tell stories about their culture. It prompts analyzing how myths work in stories to deliver familiar meanings and cultural systems of understanding.

1. Fictions Examining how cultural products & practices communicate as fictions