Rural History and Popular Culture

Rural History ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Bellamy ◽  
K. D. M. Snell ◽  
Tom Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Rural History ◽  
Thematic Coherence

This issue of Rural History has greater thematic coherence than previous numbers, with all the papers having some relation to the study of ‘popular culture’, while coming from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Each of the articles develops a key area of analysis, but their juxtaposition helps to raise further questions – about the kinds of sources that can be used to redress the bias towards the elite that has tended to dominate the study of culture, and about the problems involved in the handling of such sources. How do concepts of class, sectional, or gender interest relate to the sense of place and local identity? How can we detect such ideas within the historical record? How should we proceed in attempting to reconstruct popular and regional consciousness?

The Dragon of Wantley: Rural Popular Culture and Local Legend

Rural History ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hey
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Rural Culture ◽  
Rural History

In one of the earliest issues of Rural History, Jacqueline Simpson urged students of Popular rural culture to examine local legends that centre upon some specific place, Person or object and which are a focus for local pride. Many of these are well-known tales which have been adapted, often in a humorous way, to local circumstances. Thus the seventy-odd stories of dragon-slaying which she has collected for Britain usually depict a local figure, not St George or a knight errant, as the hero. It is normally difficult, if not impossible, to explain how these tales began. The Dragon of Wantley, however, offers some unusual opportunities for delving into the historical context of a ballad that achieved national fame.

Rural Settlement and Regional Contrasts: Questions of Continuity and Colonisation

Rural History ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian K. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Rural Settlement ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Middle Years ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Rural History ◽  
Rural Landscapes ◽  
Deep Sense

In this paper my intention is to discuss the diversity of rural landscapes, still detectable in spite of two centuries and more of industrialisation, and to point to the roots of this diversity, in a time when local differences in habitat were bonded to contrasts in culture, economy and society. The stimulus, perhaps even the courage, to write this essay came from reading Braudel's The Identity of France: History and Environment, for his joyous exploration of that country generates an awareness of the need for a deep sense of place as a foundation for understanding rural history. For me one key to this is seen in figure 1, a new map of settlement in England and Wales in the middle years of the last century, a product of my work on rural settlements. Everitt, using the case of Kent as a basis for an evaluation of the use of landscapes as a historical source, has emphasised the importance of countrysides in understanding the evolution of the landscapes of field, forest, heath, fell, fen, marsh, down and wald (Everitt, 1986: 6–13, 338–40; for wald see Everitt, 1986: passim and Ekwall, 1970: 491–2). Figure 1 is one measure of the diversity and a source of this discussion.

Dialect Contact and the Acadian French Subjunctive: A Cross-Varietal Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth King ◽  
Carmen L. LeBlanc ◽  
D. Rick Grimm
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Dialect Contact ◽  
Acadian French ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
High Selection ◽  
Mood Choice

This study investigates mood choice for five Acadian French communities in Atlantic Canada which have intertwined settlement histories but which differ in terms of type and degree of dialect contact. The two communities with least contact with supralocal French preserve the highly salient imperfect subjunctive, moribund or absent from most other present-day spoken French varieties. While four communities exhibit high selection rates for the present subjunctive, in line with variationist analyses of other French varieties, one community has surprisingly low rates of such usage, along with absence of the imperfect subjunctive. This dichotomy is explained by the local prestige of the smaller of two founder groups for the community, settlers from Haute-Bretagne, France, a dialect area for which the historical record reveals low levels of subjunctive forms. The results highlight the importance not only of demographic factors but also of local identity construction in the formation of new contact varieties.

scholarly journals Heroes Sung and Unsung: Explorers’ Narratives of Mongolia, 1890s to the 1930s

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-798
Author(s):  
David Shearer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Government Official ◽  
Inner Asia ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
The World

AbstractPetr Kuzmich Kozlov and Roy Chapman Andrews were well known figures in the world of popular culture, exploration, and science of their respective homelands, Imperial Russia and America. In the early years of the twentieth century, both were famous for spectacular discoveries in the deserts of Mongolia – Kozlov in archeology and Andrews in paleontology. Both were celebrity explorers in their native countries when they met in Mongolia in 1922, and both kept field journals and notes from which they produced popularly published accounts of their travels and exploits. Like all the great explorer-adventurers, Andrews and Kozlov made themselves the hero of their own narratives (Maclulich 1977). And yet, neither could have achieved what he did, nor likely have met, had it not been for a third individual, one who was indispensable to both explorers, but an individual who has nearly disappeared from the historical record. Tsokto Garmaevich Badmazhapov, a native of Buryatia, in Siberia, acted as an intermediary for both Kozlov and Andrews. He played a central role in the stories of the two explorers, the unsung hero in their narratives, but he was a remarkable individual in his own right – a successful and polyglot commercial agent, a go-between, an explorer, and a Mongolian government official. In the early 1920s all three individuals were prominent figures in Mongolia, and yet by the mid-1930s, all three had been excluded from the lands that drew them. This article explores the interaction of these three, the visions of Inner Asia that motivated and separated each, and the circumstances – scientific, geo-political, and personal – that both produced and then discarded these remarkable people.

Japanese American Women: A Sense of Place

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosanna Yamagiwa ◽  
Leita Hagemann Luchetti
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
American Women

Influence of death obsession and anxiety on exposure to popular culture media

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance C. Garmon ◽  
Meredith Patterson ◽  
Jennifer M. Shultz ◽  
Michael C. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Culture Media
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