Studies in folk life, essays in honour of Iorwerth C. Peate. Edited by Geraint Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jenkins, J. Geraint (John Geraint), editor.

Peate, Iorwerth Cyfeiliog, 1901-1982.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peate, Iorwerth Cyfeiliog, 1901-1982.

Peate, Iorwerth Cyfeiliog.

Folklore.

Folklore--Wales.

Wales.

Ethnology.

Wales--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 344 pages : illustrations, maps, plans, portrait ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Barnes & Noble, [1969]

Contents:

Introduction, by H. J. Fleure.

The Gwerin of Wales, by F. P. Jones.

The Institute for Dialect and Folklore Research in Uppsala, by D. Strömbäck.

The Welsh contribution to the development of the Ulster Folk Museum, by G. B. Thompson.

Folk life studies in East Anglia, by G. E. Evans.

Once upon a time, by S. O. Duilearga.

The concept of diffusion in its application to vernacular building, by J. T. Smith.

Sod and turf houses in Ireland, by E. E. Evans.

Representations of houses on some Irish maps of c. 1600, by C. O. Danachair.

Megalithic building survivals, by J. Walton.

Historical aspects of peat-cutting in Wales, by T. M. Owen.

Fenland peat, by E. Porter.

Sea sand and shells as manure, by A. T. Lucas.

Sheep in North Ronaldsay, Orkney, by A. Fenton.

The Welsh plough team to 1600, by F. G. Payne.

The rope-wood and its European distribution, by R. Wildhaber.

The tweed salmon coble, by S. F. Sanderson.

The great wheel in the Scandinavian countries, by M. Hoffmann.

Investigation of an industry and its products, by S. Erixon.

The supernatural in Welsh place-names, by M. Richards.

Prefixed pronominal forms in a Welsh dialect, by V. H. Phillips.

Bibliography of books and papers by Iorwerth C. Peate (p. 339-344).

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

OCLC:

816958