Sir Francis Drake: The Construction of a Hero

KING ARTHUR IN HISTORY AND LEGEND. By W. LEWIS JONES. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1911. 16mo, pp. vi + 145. Reviewed by Jessie L. Weston.

SIR PERCEVAL OF GALLES. A Study of the Sources of the Legend. By REGINALD HARVEY GRIFFITH. Chicago: University Press, 1911. 8vo, pp. viii + 131. Reviewed by Jessie L. Weston.

THE BLEEDING LANCE. By A.C.I. BROWN. Modern Language Association of America, 1911. 8vo, pp. 59. Reviewed by Jessie L. Weston.

THE TWO KNIGHTS OF THE SWAN, LOHENGRIN AND HELYAS. By ROBERT JAFFRAY. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910. 8vo, pp. ix + 123. Ill. Reviewed by Jessie L. Weston.

ANCIENT HUNTERS AND THEIR MODERN REPRESENTATIVES. By W. J. SOLLAS. Macmillan &; Co., 1911. 8vo, pp. xvi + 416. Ill. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

ANTHROPOLOGY. By R. R. MARETT. (Home University Library). Williams &; Norgate, n.d. 16mo, pp. 256. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

PREHISTORIC MAN. By W. L. H. DUCKWORTH. (Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature). Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1912. 16mo, pp. 156. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

THE THUNDERWEAPON IN RELIGION AND FOLKLORE. A Study in Comparative Archaeology. By CHR. BLINKENBERG. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1911. Demy 8vo, pp. xii + 122. Ill. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.

THE WORLD OF DREAMS. By HAVELOCK ELLIS. Constable &; Co., 1911. 8vo, pp. xii + 288.

SURVIVALS IN BELIEF AMONG THE CELTS. By GEORGE HENDERSON. Glasgow: James MacLehose &; Sons. 8vo, pp. xi + 346. 1911. Reviewed by Eleanor Hull.

COSTUMES, TRADITIONS AND SONGS OF SAVOY. By ESTELLA CANZIANI. Chatto and Windus, 1911. 4to, pp. xiii + 180. Col. pl. and text ill. Reviewed by W. F. Kirby.

VOLKSLIEDER AUS DEM KANTON AARGAU. Gesammelt von SIGMUND GROLIMUND. (Schriften der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, No. 8). Basel: Augustinergasse 8, 1911. 8vo, pp. vi + 279. Reviewed by Lucy E. Broadwood.

THE BAGANDA. An Account of their Native Customs and Beliefs. By the Rev. JOHN ROSCOE. Macmillan &; Co., 1911. 8vo, pp. xix + 547. Ill. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

CASTES AND TRIBES OF SOUTHERN INDIA. By E. THURSTON, assisted by K. Rangachari. 7 vols. Madras: Government Press, 1909. 8vo. Ill. Reviewed by M. Longworth Dames.

GRUNDLINIEN EINER VERGLEICHUNG DER RELIGIONEN UND MYTHOLOGIEN DER AUSTRONESISCHEN VÖLKER. Von P. W. SCHMIDT. In Denkschriften d. K. Akademie d. Wissenschaften in Wien, 1910. 4to, pp. viii + 142. Reviewed by B. Malinowski.

DIE MYTHOLOGIE DER AUSTRONESISCHEN VÖLKER. Von P. W. SCHMIDT. (Reprint from Mittteil. d. Anthrop. Ges. in Wien, vol. xxxix.) Reviewed by B. Malinowski.     

“贞女遗芳”与明清广东仕宦塑造的女性形象

广东顺德龙江镇的贞女桥,原名老女桥,传说宋代女子吴妙静新婚之日,未婚夫在迎亲时溺水身亡,她遂出资在溺水处建造一座五孔石桥,并终身守节。明清时期,地方仕宦出于教化需要,不断发掘有关吴妙静的传说故事,在其建造的桥上竖立了"贞女遗芳"牌坊,将其塑造为节孝双全的女性形象,成为地方社会重要的文化资源。广东仕宦对其形象进行塑造的目的是借此在地方推行王朝教化,强化人们对王朝统治的认同感,从而将地方文化逐步整合到统一的中国文化之中。     

《孟姜女传说》口头遗产及其文化空间——国家级非物质文化遗产《孟姜女传说》评述

孟姜女口头遗产在中国早已经构成了一个很大的民间传说圈。在孟姜女传统民间文化活动集中的地区,即以孟姜女口头传承为文化圈的活动空间里,不停顿地用多种形式重复展演和弘扬着孟姜女文化遗存。而山东淄博地区孟姜女传说调查成果充分证明,中心地带传承的口头传说有一个显著的特征,那就是传说中的人物、事件与当地人文历史背景、自然地理环境的紧密粘附性。     

民间传说的文化解读：淄河语境中的孟姜女传说

孟姜女传说的“在地化”研究虽然在研究范式和材料方面为民间文学研究提供了一个新的思路并注入了新的活力,但目前的一些“在地化”研究成果多把孟姜女传说置于宏观的中华民族文化与社会背景之中进行分析,极少涉及孟姜女传说文本的微观区域语境,这样就很难注意到传说与民间生活的相互依存关系,也就很难将传说的内在特征与作为语境的乡土社会做结构性的互文阐释。基于此,本文将以在山东省淄博市淄河镇8村搜集到的22则孟姜女传说文本为例,尝试着将其置于当地村落语境中,从当地村民生活出发予以解读,进而在此基础上探讨乡民对于自身文化文本的理解方式。     

Gender,Legend, and the Icelandic Countryside in the Long Nineteenth Century: Re-Engaging the Archives as a Means of Giving Voice to the Women of the Past

This article addresses the way in which, in spite of their accepted drawbacks (which often include an over-emphasis on male informants), folklore archives can be used to reconstruct the oral traditions of women from earlier times, especially when used in combination with other archival sources that are increasingly becoming available online. In Iceland, the recorded interviews by the folklore collector Hallfreður Örn Eiríksson in the 1960s and 1970s have proven to be a particularly useful source for engaging with the reconstruction of women’s narrative traditions in Iceland. These interviews not only provide us with women’s narratives told in their own voices, but also yield a wide range of additional information about the context of women’s storytelling within the rural society of previous centuries.     

The Silent Missiles of Guadalcanal: Magic as Rhetoric in the Sandline Controversy

In February of 1997, Sir Julius Chan, then Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, hired mercenaries from the Sandline Corporation to help fight the Bougainville Revolutionary Army. This act would create a distinct controversy in PNG, with the firing of the head of the PNGDF, General Singirok, a threatened coup d'etat, followed by public protests in Port Moresby and the eventual resignation of Chan. While these events were taking place, I was conducting field work in neighbouring Solomon Islands, specifically in Guadalcanal. The Vaturanga, among whom I lived during this period, took an especial interest in this controversy. They even believed that they themselves were playing a part in it, through forms of magic or sorcery, known locally as riana pupuku and poke sosolo. Guadalcanal has been renowned for its sorcery for many decades. But with modernization and its attendant institutions and patterns, these and other forms of magic have been reinterpreted by the Vaturanga and used as a sort of commentary about the economic, social and political changes they have experienced. This work explores the transnational aspects of the Sandline Controversy from the perspective of Guadalcanal Islanders and probes how this consciousness would play a role in the emergence of conflict in Guadalacanal eighteen months later.     

论《儿女英雄传》中十三妹形象嬗变的合理性

《儿女英雄传》是一部旗人康写旗人生活的小说。然而小说的这一民族特点长时间被研究所忽略,得到的评价也有所偏颇。本正是从旗人独特的妇女价值观和化习俗等民族角度出发,分析十三妹形象嬗变中的合理因素,以求对十三妹的形象塑造进行重新审视和重新定位。