Student Folklore Dossiers

Description

Student folklore dossiers, variously subtitled Scheme B - Folk Life 1: First Term Exercise, and Folk Life Exercise: First Term. Each compilation includes the student's biographical details, and items of folklore known to them or collected from family and friends. Details of when/where these were practised, by whom, and who they were learned from, are also included. Areas covered include childlore (rhymes, tongue twisters, oaths, gestures, nicknames, beliefs, sayings and phrases, games, songs, customs, threatening figures); adult rhymes and sayings (weatherlore, customs and beliefs, luck, supernatural phenomena); narratives (folk tales, rumour, jokes, local legends, anecdotes); blason populaire; traditional medicine; birth, marriage and death; proverbs and proverbial sayings; calendar customs; drinking. Diagrams/sketches and tune transcriptions are also included.

Provenance

The contents of the early files have been page numbered consecutively at a later date. A cover sheet with each file lists the students' names, and for the years 1971-1973 includes a subject index. All were originally held in A4 clip folders.

System of arrangement

The files of dossiers were arranged chronologically, and originally numbered I-V, 6-16 [file 8 is missing, although there is no break in year coverage]. This arrangement has been retained. The student dossiers within each file are arranged alphabetically by surname.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

The theses and dissertations in this subfonds are available for consultation in the searchroom of Special Collections, University of Leeds, by all bona fide researchers. Conditions relating to access and use have, in a number of cases, been applied to particular items by individual depositors. These are noted within the relevant individual records.

Material in this collection is in copyright. Photocopies or digital images can only be supplied by the Library for research or private study within the terms of copyright legislation. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain the copyright holder's permission to reproduce for any other purpose. Guidance is available on tracing copyright status and ownership.

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