Vol 26 (2011)

Notions of Defiance; the Tragedy of Wars of Retaliation, and our Celtic Heritage

An Issue Reflecting on Notions of Defiance; the Tragedy of Wars of Retaliation, and and on the Role of our Celtic Heritage.

This print edition of this issue was published by the University of New England.

Table of Contents

Editorial
J. S. Ryan, Robert James Smith
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Index
J. S. Ryan
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International and Comparative Studies

Archives of English Language and Tradition: A Once and Future Resource?
J. D. A. Widdowson
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Creative Writing (Classes) As a Means of Revealing Unconscious Belief Systems: The Folk Culture So Often Disclosed when one is ‘Writing Viewpoints’
Robert James Smith, J. S. Ryan
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Contemporary Soldier Stories and the Game of Propaganda: The War on Terror, and some Folkloric Reflections on the War in Iraq
A. Asbjørn Jøn
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Hobbit Tales Today: Stories of Small People from Flores (Indonesia)
Robert James Smith, Concilianus Laos Mbato
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Folklore in South Africa: A Short and Curtailed Overview
Matilda Burden
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Moments of Cultural Transition: As Mediaeval and Superstitious Scotland Meets The More Modern World
J. S. Ryan, T. J. S. Ryan
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The Folklore of War and Peace
Marty Branagan
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Identity, Contemporary Music and Community: Some Illustrations of this area of Personal Research with Special Reference to Confluent Jazz Music in the Nordic Countries
Daniel Rorke
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Events in France in the Period 1789 to 1815: Thomas Hardy and the French Revolutionary Wars
David Cornelius
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Studies in Australian Folklore

Perdurable Story Elements from Celtic Folklore and Mythology: These as More Recent Tastes as Observed and Reflected on In Regional ‘New England’, in Northern New South Wales
J. S. Ryan
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The Arts, and Government
Don Aitkin
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An Early Australian article on ‘English Folk Songs and Dances’
Clive Carey
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Charmed Circles From the Past
Joan H. MacDonald
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Australia’s Rites of Passage
Rebecca Rankin
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Becoming an Adult: Australian Rites of Passage as Practised at the Present Time
Melissa Saunders
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Tales Heard and Tales Read: From Chile to Australia: A Memoir
Carmen Schiessler
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Notes, Select Notices and Comments

Glen Innes Heritage Recognised: The Recipe and the Ingredients
David Donnelly
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Only One Horse Came Home
David Evans
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Old Friends, Rich Relations: Early Days on the Richmond and Clarence Rivers
Edwin Wilson
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Reviews and Reports

The Outlaw and The Popular /Folk Hero: A Review Article
J. S. Ryan
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Herbert Halpert, Edited and with an Introduction by J.D.A. Widdowson, Folk Tales, Tall Tales, Trickster Tales and Legends of the Supernatural from the Pinelands of New Jersey: Recorded Between 1936 and 1951 and Annotated by Herbert Halpert (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2010). Cloth. Pp. xii + 646. ISBN 978-1-57806-994-1. Unjacketed Cloth. $US 149-95. £UK 89-95.
Robert James Smith
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Tradition Today. No 1, April 2011. Sheffield: The Centre for English Traditional Heritage. 71 pp.
J. S. Ryan
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Australians in Britain: The Twentieth Century Experience, ed. by Carl Bridge, Robert Crawford and David Dunstan (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University ePress, 2009). 256 pp.; full text readable online < http://books.publishing.monash.edu/ apps/bookworm/view/Australians+in+Britain%3A+The+Twentieth-Century+ Experience/137/xhtml/chapter07.html> ISBN 9780980464863 (pbk), 97809804 64870 (online). RRP A$34.95 (pbk).
J. S. Ryan
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