The Embodiment of Social Life: Bodylore and the Kirkwall Ba' Game (Orkney,Scotland)

This paper focuses on the practice of playing folk football on Christmas Day and New Year's Day in Kirkwall, Orkney, and on the idea of “embodiment” in traditional games. The comparison of empirical data from field research with theoretical interpretations illuminates the embodiment processes in the Kirkwall Ba' game, giving evidence of the intricate interaction between three essential dimensions in bodylore: the individual, society, and the environment.     

Specimens of Somali Tales.

A BALLAD OF KERALA. By M. D. RAGHAVAN, B.A. Reprinted from the Indian Antiquary, vol. lxi., pp. 9–12, 72–77, 112–116, 150–154, 205–211. Reviewed by F. J. R..

MYTH AND RITUAL. Essays on the Myth and Ritual of the Hebrews in relation to the Culture Pattern of the Ancient East. Edited by S. H. HOOKE. Oxford University Press, 1933. Pp. xix + 204. Illust. 20. Price 10s. 6d. Reviewed by A. M. Hocart.

THE ELIZABETHAN FAIRIES, THE FAIRIES OF FOLKLORE AND THE FAIRIES OF SHAKESPEARE. By MINOR WHITE LATHAM, Ph.D. Columbia University Press, 1930. 8½″ x 5½″. Pp. viii + 313. 18s. 6d. Reviewed by H. C. L..

INDO-EUROPEAN FOLK-TALES AND GREEK LEGEND. By W. R. HALLIDAY. Pp. vii.+ 158. Cambridge University Press, 1933. 7s. 6d. 8″ x 5½″. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

DRAGUTIN SUBOTI?. YUGOSLAV POPULAR BALLADS, THEIR ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT. Cambridge, University Press, 1932. Price 10s. 6d. 288 pp. 8vo. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

SACRAMENTS OF SIMPLE FOLK. By R. R. MARETT, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1933. Pp. ii + 230. 10s.net. Reviewed by H. J. Rose.

PRIMITIVE ARTS AND CRAFTS. By R. U. SAYCE. Cambridge University Press. 1933. 7¾″ x 5½′ F - Pp. xiii + 291 Reviewed by M. M. B..

THE ALEXANDER BOOK IN ETHIOPIA : The Ethiopic versions of Pseudo-Callisthenes, the Chronicle of Al-Mâkin, the Narrative of Joseph ben Gorion, and a Christian Romance of Alexander. SIR ERNEST A. WALLIS BUDGE. London : Oxford University Press. 1933. i–xxix, and 1–277. 13 Plates. Price 7s. 6d. Size 7¾″ x 5¼″. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

QUILEUTE TEXTS. By MANUEL J. ANDRADE. Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, Volume XII. New York: Columbia University Press ; Oxford : Humphrey Milford, 1931. 206 pp. 26s. 6d. Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.

TRIBES OF THE NIGER DELTA, THEIR RELIGIONS AND CUSTOMS. By P. AMAURY TALBOT, D.Sc. Illustrated. Map. London : The Sheldon Press. 1932. 9″ x 6″. Pp. xi + 350. 18s. Reviewed by Edwin W. Smith.

RECHERCHES SUR NOTRE ANCIENNE CHANSON POPULAIRE TRADITIONELLE. Exposé V. by PAUL COIRAULT. Libraire E. Droz, 25 Rue de Tournon, Paris. VIme. 1932. Pp. 321–685. 10″ x 6½″. Reviewed by M. M. B..     

Stray Notes on Oxfordshire Folklore

BIRDS IN LEGEND FABLE AND FOLKLORE. By ERNEST INGERSOLL. Longmans, Green &; Co., 1923. Ill. Front. Pp. v + 292. 12s. 6d. net. Reviewed by D. H. Moutray Read.

GAELIC PIONEERS OF CHRISTIANITY. By DOM LOUIS GOUGAUD, O.S.B. Dublin: M. H. Gill &; Son, 1923. Pp. xxiii. + 166. 7s. 6d. n. Reviewed by Eleanor Hull.

THE LATIN AND IRISH LIVES OF ST. CIARAN. By R. A. STEWART MACALISTER. Pp. 190. 10s. n. LIFE OF ST. DAVID. By A. W. WADE-EVANS. Pp. xx.+ 124. 7s. 6d. n. [Translations of Christian Literature : Series V., Lives of Celtic Saints.] Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1923. Reviewed by Eleanor Hull.

CONTES SLAVES DE LA MACÉDOINE SUD-OCCIDENTALE : Etude linguistique; textes et traduction; Notes de Folklore. Par ANDRÉ MAZON. Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1923. Reviewed by A. H. Krappe.

EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY. By W. MAX MÜLLER. [Being vol. xii. of The Mythology of All Races, 1923.] Geo. G. Harrap &; Co., 1923. Ill. Pp. xvi.+448. 10s. 6d. n. Reviewed by M. A. Murray.

LIFE IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA : THE MAGIC, BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS OF THE IBIBIO TRIBE. By P. AMAURY TALBOT. Macmillan &; Co., 1923. 8vo. Pp. xvi. + 356. Map; 51 ill. 21s. n. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.

THE GOLDEN ASS OF LUCIUS APULEIUS. In the translation of WILLIAM ADLINGTON. Edit., with an Intro., by F. J. HARVEY DARTON. Navarre Society, 1924. Ill. Pp. 359. 21s. net.     

Reviews

Legends of the Micmacs. By the Rev. Silas Tertius Rand, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D. Wellesley Philological Publications. New York and London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1894. By E. S. Hartland.

Old Rabbit the Voodoo, and other Sorcerers. By Mary Alicia Owen. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. By E. S. Hartland.

More English Fairy Tales. Collected and edited by Joseph Jacobs. London: David Nutt, 1894. By E. S. Hartland.

Scottish Fairy and Folk-Tales. Selected and edited, with an Introduction, by Sir George Douglas, Bart. London: Walter Scott, Limited. By E. S. Hartland.     

On an Inscribed Stone Coffin-Lid in the Ancient Cemetery of the Temple Church,London

Excavations at Denny Abbey, Cambridgeshire, between 1968 and 1975, concentrated on the twelfth-century church and the area to the north. They revealed a remarkable building sequence on a site which was occupied successively by Benedictine monks, Knights Templars, and Franciscan nuns. After the Dissolution, the twelfth-century church was incorporated in a farmhouse. An examination of the foundations enabled a building sequence to be suggested for the upstanding remains.