Folklore Notes

GREEK HERO CULTS AND IDEAS or IMMORTALITY: GIFFORD LECTURES, 1920, by LEWIS RICHARD FARNELL. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1921. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

ISLAM IN INDIA, OR THE QāNūN-I-ISLāM : THE CUSTOMS OF THE MUSALMāNS OF INDIA, by JA'FAR SHARīF, translated by G. A. HERKLOTS, M.D.; new edition edited by W. CROOKE. Oxford University Press. 1921. Reviewed by T. C. Hodson.

L'ÉTERNUEMENT ET LE BAILLEMENT DANS LA MAGIE, L'ETHNOGRAPHIE ET LE FOLK-LORE MÉDICAL de P. SAINTYVES. Paris: ÉMILE NOURRY. 1921. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

Tne NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CHILD, by DR. COURTENAY DUNN. London and Edinburgh: Marston &; Co., Ltd. 1919. 7s. 6d. net. Reviewed by C. Jenkinson.     

Sirmur Folklore Notes

DEUTSCHES JAHRBUCH FÜR VOLKSKUNDE. Vol. III, Part i. Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1957. Pp. 343, Plates VIII and text illustrations. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

DAS ST. LAMBRECHTER PASSIONSSPIEL VON 1606. Passio Domini AND Dialogus in Epiphania Domini DES JOHANNES GEIGER. Edited by P. OTHMAR WONISCH, O.S.B. Vienna, 1957. Veröffentlichungen des Österreichischen Museums für Volkskunde, Vol. xi. Pp. viii, 96. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.

THE ROAD TO SANTIAGO. By WALTER STARKIE. John Murray, 1957. Pp.338. 25s. Reviewed by Violet Alford.

JOURNAL OF THE ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY, Vol. VIII, No. 1. 1956. Reviewed by Michael M. Rix.

MENSA SACRA : THE ROUND TABLE AND THE HOLY GRAIL. By A. A. BARB. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XIX, 1–2, 1956. Reviewed by H. R. Ellis Davidson.     

Society Meetings and Folklore Notes

THE ‘DISCIPLINA CLERICALIS’ OF PETRUS ALFONSI. Translated and Edited by EBERHARD HERNES. Translated into English by P. R. QUARRIE. (Routledge &; Kegan Paul) 1977. £5.95. Reviewed by K. M. Briggs.

EY UP MI DUCK. By RICHARD SCOLLINS and JOHN TITFORD, Parts 1 and 2. Ilkeston (Schollins and Titford) 1976. Pp. 95p. Reviewed by J. D. A. Widdowson.

THE FOLKLORE OF ORKNEY &;SHETLAND. By ERNEST W. MARWIOC. London (B. T. Batsford) 1975. Drawings by GAY JOHN GALSWORTHY. Pp. 215. £4.50. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

TRADITIONAL ROMANCE &; TALE. How Stories Mean. By ANNE WILSON. Ipswich (D. S. Brewer/Rowman &; Littlefield) 1976. Pp. xii and 116. £5.00. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

WESTCOUNTRY WORDS &; WAYS. By K. C. PHILLIPPS. Newton Abbot (David &; Charles) 1976. Pp. 144. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

THE ARMED PROLOGUE. A Hamlet Sequence. By WILLIAM MONTGOMERIE. Pp. 5–22. Reviewed by Theo Brown.

ENZYKLOPÄDIE DES MÄRCHENS. Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung. Ed. KURT RANKE. Vol. 1, issues 3–5. Berlin (Walter de Grǔyter) 1976/77. Cols. 577–1406. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

Haralds Biezais, Lichtgott der alten Letten. Scripta Instituti Donneriani Åboensis VIII. Uppsala, 1976. Pp. 210. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.     

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.