{"title":"Crysau’n llawn brychau gerbron / shirts full of stains presented: Welsh rag-wells","authors":"Howard Huws","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2113712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2113712","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Visits to wells to obtain cures for illnesses represent an ancient and widespread practice in Britain and Ireland. The practice of leaving rags, or even whole garments, as tokens of belief or gratitude, or both, is also extensively documented. This paper provides a short summary of the antiquity and distribution of well cults. The distribution in Britain and Ireland is then briefly referenced, after which comes the paper’s main focus, a discussion of the historical evidence for the extent and distribution of practices using fabric in various ways at healing wells in Wales. This is accompanied by a description of the variations in ritual at different locations, and how these change over time, especially in the Post-Reformation period. Finally, the paper gives a list of Welsh wells with which rags are associated, highlighting those linked to particular saints.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"99 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43587607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘All they do is drink coffee:’ notes on café culture in Prishtina, Kosova","authors":"Arsim Canolli","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2043645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2043645","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on evidence from participant observation and semi-structured interviews undertaken in the period 2011–2014, this paper explores the social life of café culture in Prishtina, Kosova. It focuses on everyday coffee drinking practices as an embodiment of civility, morality and identity, and provides a view of what constitutes café culture and how social identities are formed and shaped within/around/outside/in relation to cafés. It also highlights how values, norms, and identities are contested, negotiated and also reproduced in regular café-going in Prishtina. The focus shifts to spaces, routines, practices, ordinary events, as well as the constant discussion of café culture. Finally, it discusses how cafés have become social settings where the established codes of hospitality with their inherent demand for reciprocal conviviality are at play.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"4 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47626175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"George B. Thompson 6 August 1925 - 2 August 2021","authors":"L. Ballard","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2050588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2050588","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"93 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47029302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Nach te an rud an Ghaeilge?/Isn’t Irish a warm thing?” Learning Irish language and song: an autoethnographic self-reflection","authors":"Seán Mac Corraidh","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2044122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2044122","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As ever more languages fall silent because transmission to children ceases, language revitalization has emerged as a worldwide issue today. A relative dearth of documentation exists about how, at an individual level, revitalization leads to the cultural formation of regular new speakers. Using autoethnographic approaches, this paper provides such a personal language biography. It relates significant and critical incidents from my memories of the academic, personal and professional pathways followed in learning Irish as a second language and gaining access to and appreciation of, the unaccompanied style of singing called sean-nós. Self-observation, self-exploration, self-reflection, autobiography and memorization guided the research and writing of the article. Autoethnographic theory provided the means for a greater critical understanding of social and cultural contexts tied to institutions, places and people. Documentation came in the form of photographs, video and audio recordings, personal letters and my own autobiographic writing.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"19 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45326827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Colm Ó Caodháin: an Irish singer and his world","authors":"P. Cowdell","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2049119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2049119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"82 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48894475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breandán Ó Madagáin 1932–2020","authors":"Lillis Ó Laoire","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2051866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2051866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"96 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43930749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An unsung pioneer of folk life studies in Wales: Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, 1863-1940","authors":"Eurwyn Wiliam","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2044608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2044608","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines the contribution of an individual known in Wales as one of a number from humble backgrounds who rose to make significant contributions to late-Victorian and early twentieth-century civic society. Daniel Lleufer Thomas’s activity in the field of sociological recording, however, has been little recognized in his own country let alone more widely. His contribution to two Royal Commissions in the last decade of the 19th century was seminal and led to Iorwerth Peate’s decision to study the historical domestic architecture of Wales, thus influencing directly the growth and development of vernacular architecture as a field of study within the broader field of regional ethnology.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"66 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47347971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The hidden history of the smock frock","authors":"A. Mackenzie","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2049127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2049127","url":null,"abstract":"willing to overlook this slight stretching of the concept of ‘a life in 50 objects’, the result is a fascinating and valuable study of Watt’s life, relationships, environments and ideas. In fact, the openness of the editors and contributors to explore ideas and representations of Watt is one of the book’s highlights. Far from ending at the moment of Watt’s death, a number of the essays explore the ongoing impacts of his work throughout the nineteenth century and beyond, from inspiration and patents to monuments and myths. Of particular interest is the final essay on William Bloye’s 1956 bronze statue of Boulton, Watt and Murdoch – known to most in Birmingham as the ‘Golden Boys’. In the context of active public engagement with the question of how historical individuals – and the contexts in which they operated – are made visible in public space and discourse, the concluding essays seem less an ending to the story as much as an invitation to the reader to further reflect on James Watt and his legacy. In different ways, both these books are excellent examples of the value of material culture to historical study, highlighting the depth and significance of collections and the range of stories they can tell. Whilst ‘The Black Country: A History in 100 Objects’ uses diverse objects as a way to widen the stories told about one particular place, ‘The Power to Change the World’ uses them as anchors to the people, places and things that shaped one individual’s life. As well as being valuable explorations of a place and person both so central to the West Midlands’ industrial history, they are also extremely engaging and enjoyable to read. Both books will be much appreciated by anyone with an interest in the industrial, technological and social history of the West Midlands.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"88 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48448566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Folk life at 60","authors":"Lillis Ó Laoire","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2058774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2058774","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47107110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Basketry & Beyond: Constructing Cultures","authors":"G. Bertram","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2021.1969769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2021.1969769","url":null,"abstract":"disappearing, the creation of the Tullie House museum (opened 1893) provided the trigger, making this a period collection in its own right today. The Milbourne collection from Cumbrian farms was added in 1946–51. This delightful little volume in A5 format is very easy to use. References in the main text link to a summary Bibliography and Notes, conveniently on facing pages. The volume concludes with a catalogue, clearly listing accession number (useful for access enquiries), object name, dimensions and provenance detail (so often lost or overlooked). The catalogue object numbering links directly to the illustrations that are grouped around processes such as drainage, harvesting, etc. or the specific equipment associated with shepherding, milking, butter and cheese-making. To conclude, there is a fearsome set of different types of animal traps. The author’s grouped illustrations are his distinctive trademark. My personal preference is for the distinctive black-and-white treatment so successfully used in earlier volumes, such as the Torquay study; but colour adds a new dimension, particularly in the recreation scenes, both perhaps best appreciated in a larger format than this volume offers. Finally, to state the obvious that this project, as with so many others in Peter Brears’ repertoire was a labour of love, achieved largely if not completely at this own expense, ‘several weeks’ having been spent in the museum stores ‘while studying and drawing the collection’. How rare is that these days? The Society’s 2019 annual conference held at Tullie House included a memorable and much appreciated presentation on this project by the author along with museum staff, reported in Folk Life Newsletter, no. 35 for Spring 2020.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":"203 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45356885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}