4th Folklore Society – Royal Anthropological Institute Joint Seminar

Anthropology and Folklore in Conversation: Revisiting Frazer, Lang, and Tylor

Thursday 25 October 2018 at 10.00am to 5.00pm

10 – 10:15 Welcome

10:15 – 10:45 Paper 1
Dr. Paul Cowdell
‘Critical Reception and Critical Rejection: Frazer, Folklore and Folklorists’.
10:45 – 11:15 Paper 2
Docent Dr Iliya Nedin
‘The influence of Frazer, Lang and Tylor in Eastern European Folklore Studies: the example of Bulgaria’.

11:15 – 11:45 Tea

11:45 – 12:15 Paper 3
Kate Smith
‘A Historiography of Selected Aspects of Frazer’s Golden Bough’.
12:15 – 12:45 Paper 4
Frederico Delgado Rosa
‘ ‘Off With His Head!’ : Wilhelm Mannhardt's Wald- und Feldkulte at the roots of The Golden Bough’.

12:45 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 2:00 Paper 5
Paul-Francois Tremlett
E. B. Tylor's Dreams and Trances or, From Belief to Affect in the Search for the Origins of Religion
2:00 – 2:30 Paper 6
Dr Efram Sera-Shriar
Notebook of a Sceptic: E.B. Tylor and His Investigation of Modern Spiritualism

2:30 – 3:00 Tea

3:30 – 4:00 Paper 7
Chloe Metcalfe
Douglas Kennedy and the ‘Sharing of the Movement-ecstasy’
4:00 – 4:30 Paper 8
Professor Theresa Buckland
Ritual Moves: Circulating Narratives of Origin for Dance

4:30 – 5:00 – General discussion

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