Australian Folklore Yesterday and Today: Definitions and Practices
Australian Folklore Yesterday and Today: Definitions and Practices

Summary/Abstract: "In 1993 there was published a milestone volume, The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore, edited by Graham Seal and Gwenda Bede Davey. This influential compendium had followed hard upon: the first issue of Australian Folklore: A Yearly Journal of Folklore Studies, edited by Graham Seal and David S. Hults, in 1987;1 the various biennial folklore conferences2 of the Australian Folk Trust; and the appearance of Graham Seal’s The Hidden Culture: Folklore in Australian Society (1989; re-issued in 1993). This publicaton was the first attempt to provide a textbook in Australian folklore, and the first full-length analytical volume on Australian folklore as a whole. For June Factor’s earlier and deservedly famous study Captain Cook Chased a Chook (1988), had confined its analysis to children’s folklore in Australia. [...]"

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