John Stuart Stuart-Glennie
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Life
John S. Stuart-Glennie was the son of the daughter of John Stuart of Inchbreck, Professor of Greek in the University of Aberdeen. He was educated in law at the University of Aberdeen and became a barrister. He later gave his job up and undertook a series of journeys of historical exploration across Europe and Asia to collect folklore.Folklore
He is most remembered for his extreme ethnological stance regarding the origin of folkloreFolklore
Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...
. The ethnological school of folklore was developed out of anthropologists in the 19th century such as Edward Burnett Tylor
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor , was an English anthropologist.Tylor is representative of cultural evolutionism. In his works Primitive Culture and Anthropology, he defined the context of the scientific study of anthropology, based on the evolutionary theories of Charles Lyell...
who argued mythical beings could have been modeled on historic "savage" or "primitive" races. This theory was developed by Edwin Sidney Hartland
Edwin Sidney Hartland
Edwin Sidney Hartland was an author of works on folklore.His works include anthologies of tales, and theories on anthropology and mythology with an ethnological perspective. He believed that the assembling and study of persistent and widespread folklore provided a scientific insight into custom...
and Andrew Lang and Laurence Gomme
Laurence Gomme
Sir Laurence Gomme, FSA was a public servant and leading British folklorist. He helped found both the Victoria County History and the Folklore Society...
and as an offshoot emerged supporting the racialist concept that all myths and folklore contain a basis of conflicting lower and higher races.
Laurence Waddell and Alfred Cort Haddon
Alfred Cort Haddon
Alfred Cort Haddon, Sc.D., FRS, FRGS was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist.Initially a biologist, who achieved his most notable fieldwork, with W.H.R. Rivers, C.G. Seligman, Sidney Ray, Anthony Wilkin on the Torres Strait Islands...
were two authors who were proponents of the racialist interpretation of folklore, however Glennie was even more extreme and gained attention with his theory that swan maidens were superior women of an archaic white race, wedded to a dark skinned race beneath them in level of civilization.
Works
- Arthurian localities (1869)
- In the Morningland or The law of the origin and transformation of Christianity (1873)
- New Philosophy of History (1873)
- Pilgrim-memories; or, Travel and discussion in the birth-countries of Christianity with the late Henry Thomas Buckle (1875)
- Isis Or, the Origin of Christianity: As a Verification of an Ultimate Law of History (1878)
- Europe and Asia, discussions of the Eastern question in travels through independent, Turkish, and Austrian Illyria (1879)
- The Archaian white races (1887, pamphlet)
- Greek folk-songs from the Ottoman provinces of Northern Hellas (1888)
- The women of Turkey and their folk-lore (1890, 2 volumes, with Lucy GarnettLucy GarnettLucy Mary Jane Garnett , folklorist and traveller. She is best known for her work in Turkey. She also translated Greek folk poetry.-References:...
) - Greek folk poesy; annotated translations from the whole cycle of Romaic folk-verse and folk-prose (1896, with Lucy GarnettLucy GarnettLucy Mary Jane Garnett , folklorist and traveller. She is best known for her work in Turkey. She also translated Greek folk poetry.-References:...
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