Irish Christmas mumming, the subject of this carefully researched and beautifully written book, is approached in Part I through the recollections of four old people of the hamlet of Ballymenone who recall the mumming from their youth. In Part II, the author examines the form and function of the mummers' play, showing that -- contrary to the ...
Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forests from the wild gaelic western coast to the modern streets of ...
"A marvelous assortment selected from published (but often out-of-print) collections by the likes of pioneer collectors Lady Wilde, Robin Flower, and Jeremiah Curtin, and from unpublished manuscripts in private and state-owned archives" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). "A valuable overview of the rich Irish folk tradition".--Booklist. Line ...
'"Passing the Time in Ballymenone" is an extraordinarily rich and rewarding book. It is about night and day, talk and work, man and nature, history and folklore, text and context, truth and order, art and culture, life and death, the ponderable and imponderable, but above all it is about the effort of one man to find for himself and us the life's ...
History and art connect in the study of material culture. Material culture records human intrusion in the environment. It is the way we imagine a distinction between nature and culture, and then rebuild nature to our desire, shaping, reshaping, and arranging things during life. We live in material culture, depend upon it, take it for granted, and ...
'Coming into being, the work of art, this very pot, creates relations - relations between nature and culture, between the individual and society, between utility and beauty. Governed by desire, the artist's work answers questions of value. Is nature favoured, or culture? Are individual needs or social needs more important? Do utilitarian or ...
Made of the words of the people who live today in the beautiful, embattled countryside of Ulster, "Irish Folk History" is, in essence, the people's own statement of their past. In story, song, and spontaneous essay, these texts, selected from "Passing the Time in Ballymenone", tell of the coming of Christianity, of endless war, of the hardships ...
This book presents the living arts and artists of Turkey. It is simultaneously an ethnographic inquiry into the nature of art, an introduction to modern Turkey, and a model study of folk art, combining the current theories of folklore, anthropology, cultural geography, and art history. It is also the most comprehensive analysis yet written of a ...
Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, Glassie's "Vernacular Architecture" synthesises a career of concern with traditional building. He articulates the key principles of architectural analysis, and then, centring his argument in the United States, but drawing comparative examples from many locations in Europe and Asia, he shows how architecture ...
Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and universal of material expressions of culture. "The Grace of Four Moons" aims to document the clothing ...
In the time of the Troubles, when there were bombs in the night and soldiers on the road, Henry Glassie journeyed to the Irish borderland to learn how country people endure. He settled into the farming community of Ballymenone, beside Lough Erne in County Fermanagh. He asked questions, and he listened. For a decade, he heard and recorded the ...
For the general reader as for the folklorist, this is a fascinating, vivid, and sensitive account that, through its portraits of individuals and of a community, offers a unique insight into a folk custom of the Christmas season.
The Girard Collection at Santa Fe's Museum of International Art encompasses more than 100,000 works from 100 cultures worldwide. Here, folklorist Henry Glassie has selected 300 objects from the collection to illustrate a wide-ranging study of folk art. The pieces depicted - ceramic figures, beaded purses, intricate textiles, dolls and toys - ...
Ostensibly a geographer, the author of this work, Emyr Estyn Evans, broadened the outlook of his academic work to include a consideration of folklife, popular and material culture, and the effects of environment on the human outlook. In doing so, Evans became a cultural historian, whose geographical focus was Ireland and Atlantic Europe. This ...
Art is the most human of things. Based in the genetic, in the creative intelligence and the nimble body, art is a potential in every individual. Nurtured in social experience, taught, learned, and bent against circumstance, art is a reality in every culture. Always unifying what analysis divides, art is personal and collective, intellectual and ...
""Passing the Time in Ballymenone" is an extraordinarily rich and rewarding book. It is about night and day, talk and work, man and nature, history and folklore, text and context, truth and order, art and culture, life and death, the ponderable and imponderable, but above all it is about the effort of one man to find for himself and us the life's ...
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