Violet Alford and the Persistence of Edwardian Thinking

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8934836
AutoresPaul Cowdell (0000-0002-8095-4845, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen132
Número4
Páginas367-389
Fecha de publicación2021-10-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFolklore (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0015587x.2021.1905369
OpenAlexW3216968395
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas16

Violet Alford (1881–1972) has become one of the highest profile unsung figures of twentieth-century British folklore studies. In research and publications spanning nearly eighty years she was energetic in calling for greater recognition of folklore and more effective interventions by folklorists. She was especially concerned with the degenerative popular adaptation of traditional customs and media representation. This, along with her pioneering European fieldwork in ritual dance, would place her comfortably among those younger scholars who sought to overcome the intellectual impasse in British folklore in the 1950s associated with Margaret Murray and Gerald Gardner, but Alford has slipped from view a little because her own theoretical influences were similar to those being overcome. This article seeks to restore her to view by assessing these strengths and weaknesses

Adaptation (eye · Aesthetics · Art · Dance · Epistemology · Folklore · Literature · Persistence (discontinuity · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Strengths and weaknesses · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Law · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology