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.
Metadata
| Identifier | tj8s5l3d |
| IRN | 410379 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/3/2 |
| Level | Sub-series |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tj8s5l3d |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Coursework |
| Date | 1971-1982 |
| Size and Medium | 4 boxes. 17 files ms. and printed items. |
| 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. |