Studies in Folk Life (RLE Folklore) : Essays in Honour of Iorwerth C. Peate

This collection, first published in 1969, presents essays written by twenty of the most eminent scholars from the British Isles and Europe on aspects of folk life studies. The essays are written in honour of Dr Iorwerth C. Peate, Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum and doyen of folk life studies in Britain, to mark his retirement as the first President of the Society for Folk Life Studies. In the present book all the various aspects of folk life, from linguistics to sociology, from architecture to agrarian history, are covered, reflecting the wide interests of Dr Peate and his valuable contribution to the development of the study of traditional life in Britain. 1. The Gwerin of Wales / Frank Price Jones -- 2. The Institute for Dialect and Folklore Research in Uppsala / Dag Stromback -- 3. The Welsh contribution to the development of the Ulster Folk Museum / G.B. Thompson -- 4. Folk life studies in East Anglia / George Ewart Evans -- 5. Once upon a time / Seamus O Duilearga -- 6. The concept of diffusion in its application to vernacular building / J.T. Smith -- 7. Sod and turf houses in Ireland / E. Estyn Evans -- 8. Representations of houses on some Irish maps of c. 1600 / Caoimhin O Danachair -- 9. Megalithic building survivals / James Walton -- 10. Historical aspects of peat-cutting in Wales / Trefor M. Owen -- 11. Fenland peat / Enid Porter -- 12. Sea sand and shells as manure / A.T. Lucas -- 13. Sheep in North Ronaldsay, Okney / Alexander Fenton -- 14. The Welsh plough team to 1600 / Ffransis G. Payne -- 15. The 'rope-wood' and its European distribution / Robert Wildhaber -- 16. The tweed salmon coble / Stewart F. Sanderson -- 17. The 'great wheel' in the Scandinavian countries / Marta Hoffmann -- 18. Investigation of an industry and its products / Sigurd Erixon -- 19. The supernatural in Welsh place-names / Melville Richards -- 20. Prefixed pronominal forms in a Welsh dialect / V.H. Phillips