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dc.contributor.author | Ryan, John S | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-10-17T11:21:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Lore and Language, 15(1-2), p. 204-205 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0307-7144 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11465 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This fine and even sumptuous compilation of more than 4,400 largely proverbial weather sayings, mainly drawn from American and British sources and archival collections, is particularly a reflection of the habit of compiling such material in the latter parts of both the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. The senior author - who died in 1994 before the book's publication - and his colleagues, had already issued 'A Dictionary of American Proverbs' (1992) and 'A Dictionary of Wellerisms' (1994). The third author was also responsible in 1990 for 'International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography', Supplement 1 (1800-1981) issued by Garland. Their Preface now categorises these weather dicta as usually expressing either "folk wisdom in a metaphorical fashion" or "superstitions without any rational or scientific basis" (p. vii), and also stresses their folk transmission, over a considerable period of time, "the collective wisdom of generations of people who have depended on knowing at least to some degree of certainty what the weather might bring" (p. ix). | en |
dc.language | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Sheffield, National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Lore and Language | en |
dc.title | Review of Kingsbury, S. A., Kingsbury, M. E., and Mieder, W., 'Weather Wisdom: Proverbs, Superstitions and Signs', New York, Peter Lang, 1996, viii, 478pp., £33.00. | en |
dc.type | Review | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Historical Studies | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Cultural Studies | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Philosophy and Religious Studies | en |
local.contributor.firstname | John S | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 229999 Philosophy and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 950304 Conserving Intangible Cultural Heritage | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 950599 Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified | en |
local.profile.school | School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences | en |
local.profile.email | jryan@une.edu.au | en |
local.output.category | D3 | en |
local.record.place | au | en |
local.record.institution | University of New England | en |
local.identifier.epublicationsrecord | une-20120910-142016 | en |
local.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en |
local.format.startpage | 204 | en |
local.format.endpage | 205 | en |
local.identifier.volume | 15 | en |
local.identifier.issue | 1-2 | en |
local.title.subtitle | Proverbs, Superstitions and Signs', New York, Peter Lang, 1996, viii, 478pp., £33.00. | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Ryan | en |
dc.identifier.staff | une-id:jryan | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.identifier.unepublicationid | une:11664 | en |
dc.identifier.academiclevel | Academic | en |
local.title.maintitle | Review of Kingsbury, S. A., Kingsbury, M. E., and Mieder, W., 'Weather Wisdom | en |
local.output.categorydescription | D3 Review of Single Work | en |
local.search.author | Ryan, John S | en |
local.uneassociation | Unknown | en |
local.year.published | 1997 | en |
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