Personal Folklore File
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Personal Folklore File
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/3/2/011
Creator(s): Timpunza Mvula, Enoch S
Site Location(s): Subject - Malawi, Africa( -13.5, 34 )
Date(s): [1977]
Size and medium: 105 unbound ms. leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410390
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
A collection of personal folklore items, based on personal experience and information given from family, friends and colleagues between 1968 and 1977. This record of traditions relates primarily to the collector's country of origin, Malawi, and was completed as a first term exercise (Folk Life 1) within the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies.
Three main sections cover children's traditions (nicknames and insults, divination, omens and luck, disciplinary threats, games, songs, rhymes and sayings, calendar customs), adult oral traditions (song, narrative - jokes, sayings) and adult custom and belief (drinking, sex, pregnancy and childbirth, medicine and traditional remedies).
This file follows the same format as those dossiers held in other student folklore files in this series, but was not originally filed amongst them.
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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