Archives de Folklore Canada Laval University 4 Volumes

Les Archives de Folklore, Volumes 1-4 - Laval University

Ottowa: University Laval,Quebec, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949. Tall Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. 1st.ed. 4 Volume Set. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

This four volume set of French Canadian Folklore and Folk music is fantastic. Tipped in color plate in each of Quebec woman's costume,Traditional folk music and music notation and lyrics,photos of hand carved French Canadian 'Santos'

Volume 2 is dedicated to the folklorist Marius Barbeau's study with photographs of native Algonquins,'Ethnobotanique Abenakise','Folklore of Louisiana',all by great scholars,Much more,Celtic Breton geneology, French text ,4 vol.set.207pp.198pp.209pp 167pp. All books are in very good condition but for light browning on the edges due to age.

Archives de folklore. The name refers, at one and the same time, to actual archives, where the oral traditions of the French-speaking inhabitants of North America are collected and preserved, and to a collection of works specializing in this field, namely the volumes Archives de folkore. On 28 Feb 1944 Laval University entrusted its new chair of folklore to Luc Lacourcière and thus launched a research centre whose findings were to be disseminated later through teaching, publications, and other means of communication. This act gave official recognition to the instruction in folklore and research begun as early as 1939 by Lacourcière in the university's summer program, in which the anthropologist Marius Barbeau and the writer FÊlix-Antoine Savard subsequently participated. The publication Archives de folklore, issued irregularly, began to appear in 1946. The first four volumes deal with articles on songs.