ISBN:
1317549902
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9781317549901
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Routledge library editions. Folklore volume 16
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jenkins, Geraint Studies in Folk Life (RLE Folklore) : Essays in Honour of Iorwerth C. Peate
DDC:
390.09429
Keywords:
Peate, Iorwerth Cyfeiliog
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Peate, Iorwerth Cyfeiliog
;
Folklore
;
Ethnology
;
Manners and customs
;
Folklore
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
;
Ethnology
;
Wales Social life and customs
;
Wales
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection, first published in 1969, presents essays written by twenty of the most eminent scholars from the British Isles and Europe on aspects of folk life studies. The essays are written in honour of Dr Iorwerth C. Peate, Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum and doyen of folk life studies in Britain, to mark his retirement as the first President of the Society for Folk Life Studies. In the present book all the various aspects of folk life, from linguistics to sociology, from architecture to agrarian history, are covered, reflecting the wide interests of Dr Peate and his valuable contributi
Abstract:
The Gwerin of Wales, by F.P. Jones.--The Institute for Dialect and Folklore Research in Uppsala, by D. Strömbäck.--The Welsh contribution to the development of the Ulster Folk Museum, by G.B. Thompson.--Folk life studies in East Anglia, by G.E. Evans.--Once upon a time, by S.O. Duilearga.--The concept of diffusion in its application to vernacular building, by J.T. Smith.--Sod and turf houses in Ireland, by E.E. Evans.--Representations of houses on some Irish maps of c. 1600, by C.O. Danachair.--Megalithic building survivals, by J. Walton.--Historical aspects of peat-cutting in Wales, by T.M. Owen.--Fenland peat, by E. Porter.--Sea sand and shells as manure, by A.T. Lucas.--Sheep in North Ronaldsay, Orkney, by A. Fenton.--The Welsh plough team to 1600, by F.G. Payne.--The rope-wood and its European distribution, by R. Wildhaber.--The tweed salmon coble, by S.F. Sanderson.--The great wheel in the Scandinavian countries, by M. Hoffmann.--Investigation of an industry and its products, by S. Erixon.--The supernatural in Welsh place-names, by M. Richards.--Prefixed pronominal forms in a Welsh dialect, by V.H. Phillips.
Note:
Bibliography of books and papers by Iorwerth C. Peate (pages 339-344)
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Originally published: 1969
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