Katharine Briggs Folklore Award

The Katharine Briggs Folklore Award is an annual book prize awarded by The Folklore Society (FLS) in honour of Katharine Mary Briggs (who was the society’s president from 1969 to 1972). The prize is designed to promote the study of folklore and improve the standard of folklore publications in Britain and Ireland, while it also aims to establish The Folklore Society as an arbiter of excellence in the field. The rules interpret ‘Folklore Studies’ broadly, in order to cover all aspects of traditional and popular culture, narrative, beliefs, customs and folk arts, including studies of a literary, anthropological, linguistic, sociological or geographical nature. The Award is presented at a reception following the annual Katharine Briggs Lecture, at which time the runner-up and short-listed books are also acknowledged.[1] The judges report is published in the journal Folklore, which is one of the earliest journals in the field of folkloristics.[2] Even though the rules stipulate that it can be withheld if the judges find in any given year that no book has reached the required standard, the prize has been awarded every year since it was first announced in 1982.[3] Notable winners include Israeli historian of social memory Guy Beiner (2019), American scholar of fairy tales Jack Zipes (2007), English mythographer Marina Warner (1999), British radical historian E.P. Thompson (1992), English married team of folklorists Iona and Peter Opie (1986) and Soviet folklorist Vladimir Propp (1985).


Previous winners

Winners of the Award include:[4]

  • 2019 Guy BEINER, Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster (Oxford University Press)[5]
  • 2018 Martin GRAEBE, As I Walked Out: Sabine Baring Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall (Signal Books)
  • 2017 Christopher JOSIFFE, Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose (Strange Attractor)
  • 2016 Lizanne HENDERSON, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740 (Palgrave)[6]
  • 2015 Richard JENKINS, Black Magic and Bogeymen (Cork University Press).[7]
  • 2014 David ATKINSON, The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts (OpenBook Publishers)
  • 2013 Karl BELL, The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures (Boydell Press)
  • 2012 David HOPKIN, Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France (Cambridge University Press)
  • 2011 Herbert HALPERT, edited by John Widdowson, Folk Tales, Trickster Tales and Legends of the Supernatural from the Pinelands of New Jersey (Edwin Mellen Press)
  • 2010 Arthur TAYLOR, Played at the Pub: the Pub Games of Britain (English Heritage Publications)
  • 2009 Kathryn MARSH, The Musical Playground: Global Tradition and Change in Children’s Songs and Games (Oxford University Press)
  • 2008 Richard BEBB, Welsh Furniture 1250-1950: a Cultural History of Craftsmanship and Design (Saer Books)
  • 2007 Jack ZIPES, Why Fairy Tales Stick (Routledge)
  • 2006 Catherine RIDER, Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages (Oxford University Press)
  • 2005 Jeremy HARTE, Explore Fairy Traditions (Heart of Albion Press)
  • 2004 Steve ROUD, The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland (Penguin)
  • 2003 Malcolm JONES, The Secret Middle Ages (Sutton)[8]
  • 2002 Elizabeth HALLAM and Jenny HOCKEY, Death, Memory and Material Culture (Berg)[9]
  • 2001 Adam FOX, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 (Clarendon Press)[10]
  • 2000 Diarmuid Ó GIOLLÁIN, Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity (Cork University Press)[11]
  • 1999 Marina WARNER, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Chatto and Windus)[12]
  • 1998 Joseph Falaky NAGY, Conversing with Angels and Ancients The Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (Four Courts)
  • 1997 Neil JARMAN, Parading Culture: Parades and Visual Displays in Northern Ireland (Berg)
  • 1996 Mary-Ann CONSTANTINE, Breton Ballads (CMCS Publications)[13]
  • 1995 Timothy MITCHELL, Flamenco Deep Song (Yale University Press)
  • 1994 Claudia KINMONTH, Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950 (Yale University Press)
  • 1993 Georgina BOYES, The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology, and the English Folk Revival (Manchester University Press)[14]
  • 1992 E.P. THOMPSON, Customs in Common (Merlin Press)
  • 1991 Simon CHARSLEY, Rites of Marrying: The Wedding Industry in Scotland (Manchester University Press)[15]
  • 1990 Paul OLIVER, Blues Fell This Morning (Cambridge University Press)
  • 1989 J.P. MALLORY, In Search of the Indo-Europeans Language, Archaeology and Myth (Thames & Hudson)
  • 1988 Hilda Ellis DAVIDSON, Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe (Manchester University Press)
  • 1987 Amy SHUMAN, Storytelling Rights (Cambridge University Press)
  • 1986 lona and Peter OPIE, The Singing Game (Oxford University Press)
  • 1985 Vladimir PROPP, Theory and History of Folklore, edited by Anatoly Liberman (Manchester University Press)
  • 1984 Sandra BILLINGTON, A Social History of the Fool (Harvester Press)
  • 1983 Michael PICKERING, Village Song and Culture (Croom Helm)
  • 1982 Samuel Pyeatt MENEFEE, Wives for Sale: an Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce (Basil Blackwell)

See also

Notes
  1. "The Folklore Society: The Katharine Briggs Folklore Award".
  2. "Folklore (Taylor & Francis)".
  3. Folklore 93.2 (1982), 248-251
  4. "Katharine Briggs Folklore Award Winners". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
  5. "The Katharine Briggs Award 2019".
  6. "Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment". Palgrave Macmillan.
  7. "AFS Review: News".
  8. Folklore 115 (2004), 363-365.
  9. Folklore 114.2 (2003), 271.
  10. Folklore 113.2 (2002), 269-70
  11. Folklore (2001)
  12. Folklore 111 (2000), 315-316
  13. Folklore 108 (1997), 123.
  14. Rural History 5.2 (1994), 228
  15. Folklore 103 (1992), 73-74.
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