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Scatterlings : getting claimed in the age of amnesia / Martin Shaw ; foreword by David Abram.
Author
Shaw, Martin, 1971-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Ashland, Oregon : White Cloud Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
xv, 285 pages ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
GR142.D25 S53 2016
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Folklore
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England
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Dartmoor
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Nature
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Mythology
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Summary note
In Scatterlings Martin Shaw walks the myth-lines of seven stories based in and around his homeland of Dartmoor, England. Rather than the commentaries on such tales being primarily balanced against other literary sources, Shaw uses what actually occurs on these walks as the main source of information on the tales. The swoop of raven, the swamp, the thinking that moves through him, all form a knot of relationship between the land and the story. As he walks he tells the story of the place back to itself. This is a highly unusual move for a mythologist, an aspiration to use speech as form of animistic relationship, of binding, of praise to a place. In a time of rapid migrations and climatic movement, Shaw asks: how could we be not just from a place but of a place? When did we trade shelter for comfort? what was the cost of that trade? What are the stories the west tells itself in private? Scatterlings also takes us on a wonder through the wild edges of British culture, a story of secret histories: from the ancient storytelling of the bardic schools to medieval dream poetry, from the cunning man to animal call words, to Arabian and steppe Iranian influence on English dialect. Through its astonishing journey, Shaw reveals to us that when you gaze deep enough into the local you find the nomad, and when you look deep enough into the nomad you find the local. Scatterlings is a rebel keen, a rising up, to bend your head to the stories and place that claim you.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-285).
Contents
Foreword / David Abram
Hare
1. The aisling
2. Brutus
3. Chaw Gulley raven
4. Liminal culture (1)
5. Grey wethers and the god of the Sun
6. Bear standing upright under the Moon
7. Elfrida of the flowers
8. Liminal culture (2)
9. What price to lay an eye?
10. Applegarth's rose
11. Wudu-wasa
12. Liminal culture (3)
13. Twelfth night wassail
Epilogue
Appendix: Reaves, tributaries, libations.
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ISBN
9781940468501 ((paperback))
1940468507 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016035690
OCLC
941875701
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