Some Stray Folklore Notes

This article uses ideas developed in the philosophy of science to examine two concepts of culture used in contemporary folkloristics. One of them appears mainly in the context of archival work, while the other occurs chiefly in discussions on themes such as identity politics and ethnic minorities. The main difference between the two concepts is that one is used when formulating ‘substantial theories’ related to ‘kinds’, whereas the other is a bone of contention in ongoing debates on the level of ‘grand theories’. Theoretical tools developed in earlier cultural research are taken into use in contemporary cultural movements, and this affects theoretical debates on the level of grand theories.     

Some Characteristics of Irish Folklore

THE GROUP MIND : a Sketch of the Principles of Collective Psychology, with some attempt to apply them to the Interpretation of National Life and Character. By W. M'DOUGALL. Cambridge: University Press, 1920. £1 is. net. Reviewed by R. R. Marett.

MAN, PAST AND PRESENT, by A. H. KEANE, revised and largely re-written by A. HINGSTON QUIGGIN and A. C. HADDON. Cambridge University Press, 1920. Price 36s. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

A GLOSSARY OF THE TRIBES AND CASTES OF THE PUNJAB AND NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE, by H. A. ROSE. 3 vols. Lahore, 1911–19. Price 22s.

THE TALE OF THE TWO TRAVELLERS, OR THE BLINDED MAN : A COMPARATIVE STUDY, by REIDAR TH. CHRISTIANSEN. Folklore Fellows Communications, No. 26. Hamina, 1916, Published by the Finnish Academy of Science. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY AND OTHER LITERARY PIECES, by Sir J. G. FRAZER. London, Macmillan &; Co., 1920. Price 8s. 6d. net.

SÅJHER BHOG, by RAI SAHIB DINESH CHANDRA SEN. Calcutta, ?i?ir Publishing House, 1919. 1 rupee 4 annas net. Reviewed by J. D. Anderson.     

说椒房

椒,即花椒,是自然界中一种极为普通的植物。然而,由于其种籽天然的生理结构特点和众多的实用价值,使它在历史发展过程中被赋予丰富的文化内涵。椒房之称便集中地体现了椒所包含的文化意蕴。     

民俗词语刍议

民俗词语是用来指称民俗仪式及其相关事象的词语。对民俗词语进行调查和研究,近期引起了学者的注意。笔者拟在前贤研究的基础上,以自己家乡安徽宿松方言中有关婚嫁和丧葬的民俗词语为例,谈谈个人对这方面的认识。     

Remarks on Some of the Churches of Anglesey

Reconsideration of three published reports about the ruined church at Stone-by-Faversham is shown to lead to some new interpretations of its structure and history 1 especially when account is taken of evidence hitherto left latent in the building and of evidence as yet unpublished from an investigation in 1926. Moreover a new weapon for interpretation of the sequence of the several phases of the building has been developed by study of the extent to which material .from the earliest phase has been used in the fabric of later phases; and reasons are given for re-interpreting as nave-altars the masses of masonry which have in the past been regarded as part of a very confosing east wall of the first stone nave. Plans and .floor-levels are shown for the four principal phases of development 1 and we make a suggestion for a small change in the way the monument is displayed 1 in order to make its history more easily understood and also to protect its most ancient parts .from unnecessary risks. The substance of this paper was delivered to the Institute at its meeting on 11 February 1981.     

耶律羽之墓志铭考证

本文对契丹国太傅耶律羽之墓志铭进行了全面的考释。探讨了其先辈所历官职、契丹东丹国官制、东丹国迁都时间及其夫人重衮的谱系等问题,从而纠正了文献中的某些阙误。     

评《民间俗信与科学文化》

《民间俗信与科学文化》这本书,一看题目就觉得新鲜,而且难度很大,如何认识许多人不敢贴近的这个问题,到公开直面这个问题,是需要很大的学术胆量的。中国民俗学自五四运动产生以来,《民间俗信与科学文化》这本书是第一本敢于将民间俗信与科学文化并列在一起的一本书。     

《敦煌类书·励忠节钞》校注商补

敦煌献自问世以来,就不断有学人对其进行分类录校,其中台湾王三庆先生《敦煌类书》则对类书进行了全面的汇集录校,本则对其中的《励忠节钞》一校注中脱漏或待考的40余条进行校补。     

Some Remarks on the Origin and Chronology of Halberds in Europe

The present article examines the chronology of the various types of halberd in Europe with particular attention to those from the Iberian Peninsula. An older substrate of halberds is identified which originates in Ireland and Great Britain. From there the design of the Breaghwy type was distributed to the Continent, where the idea and the design were soon imitated in the form of the Rouans, Carrapatas and Variant 6 Continental types. The success of the idea of the halberd is explained by its high prestige character.     

Some Remarks on a Casket at Goodrich Court

Excavations just inside the main West gate of the town, a plantation of probably the later twelfth century, confirm that parts of the town that were intensively occupied in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were abandoned as the settlement shrank and diminished in status from the later fifteenth century onwards. The earliest buildings, founded on earth-fast posts appear to have been replaced by ones of sill-beam construction during possibly the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. One structure was converted into an ironworking smithy in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, to which a corn-drying kiln was attached. Charred remains of cultivated plants are dominated by oats, most of which probably represents crop processing activity.