![]() ![]() This paper seeks to highlight the social agencies at play in these different modes of encounter and to examine the degree to which the work of churchmen reflected or contrasted with academic expectations. I hope, to carry the argument a step or two further than had been done before. As such, I propose three broad and intersecting forms that such clerical activity may be seen to have taken: (a) clerics participating in major, centrally-orchestrated surveys, (b) clerics contributing towards works endorsed by the Folklore Society, and (c) parson-scholars operating independently of major Society input. Project Gutenbergs The Science of Fairy Tales, by Edwin Sidney Hartland. (Short Tales From A Recycled African Storyteller Who Was Likely Eaten By A. ![]() The fine-grained detail of encounters between religious professionals and folk informants suggest a far more complex picture than it is possible to convey in a single paper. Inspired By God: Short StoriesWalter Retlaw, Edinburgh: Mapping the. However, despite advice suggesting that informants might resist or deceive clerical researchers, their place as investigators was nevertheless affirmed. Ideas stemming from anthropology-inclusive of colonial and missionary contexts-were incorporated into collecting guidelines issued by the Folklore Society. Such engagements were subject to disciplinary advice, which attempted to shape the role that such individuals ought to play in folk ethnography. While they shared the common factor of the church, their collecting practices were illustrative of a wide range of social discourse. The late-nineteenth-century saw numerous clergymen participate in the examination of vernacular forms. ![]()
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