Traditions and Transitions folk narrative in the contemporary world
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July 2001 The University of Melbourne, Australia
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In an obscure early nineteenth-century antiquarian
publication, the Scot William Motherwell - poet, journalist, ballad editor (Minstrelsy:
Ancient and Modern, l827) - offered a curious historical legend, something
he titled The Story of the Palmyarm Ross, claiming its verity. No
parallel texts have been noted and the editor of the volume in which it
appeared suggested that Motherwell fabricated the text. How then should we
‘read’ it?
I would like to suggest that our best chance for placing the text is to
interrogate Motherwell’s lived experience, his habitus, to engage in historical
ethnography. In briefly describing my approach, in ‘reading’ Motherwell’s text,
I will seek as well to locate this analysis and my stance in the context of
contemporary theoretical discourse.
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