John Stuart Stuart-Glennie
John Stuart Stuart-Glennie (1841 – 1910) was a British folklorist.
Life
John S. Stuart-Glennie was the son of the daughter of John Stuart of Inchbreck, Professor of Greek in the University of Aberdeen. His father was Alexander Glennie of Maybank Aberdeen. He was educated in law at the University of Aberdeen and became a barrister. He later gave his job up and undertook a series of journeys of historical exploration across Europe and Asia to collect folklore.[1]
Folklore
He is most remembered for his extreme ethnological stance regarding the origin of folklore. The ethnological school of folklore was developed out of anthropologists in the 19th century such as Edward Burnett Tylor who argued mythical beings could have been modeled on historic "savage" or "primitive" races. This theory was developed by Edwin Sidney Hartland and Andrew Lang and Laurence Gomme and as an offshoot emerged supporting the racialist concept that all myths and folklore contain a basis of conflicting lower and higher races.[2]
Laurence Waddell and Alfred Cort Haddon were two authors who were proponents of the racialist interpretation of folklore, however Glennie was even more extreme and gained attention with his theory that swan maidens were superior women of an archaic white race, wedded to a dark skinned race beneath them in level of civilization.[3]
Works
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- Arthurian localities (1869)
- In the Morningland or The law of the origin and transformation of Christianity (1873)
- New Philosophy of History (1873)
- Pilgrim-memories; or, Travel and discussion in the birth-countries of Christianity with the late Henry Thomas Buckle (1875)
- Isis Or, the Origin of Christianity: As a Verification of an Ultimate Law of History (1878)
- Europe and Asia, discussions of the Eastern question in travels through independent, Turkish, and Austrian Illyria (1879)
- The Archaian white races (1887, pamphlet)
- Greek folk-songs from the Ottoman provinces of Northern Hellas (1888)
- The women of Turkey and their folk-lore (1890, 2 volumes, with Lucy Garnett)
- Greek folk poesy; annotated translations from the whole cycle of Romaic folk-verse and folk-prose (1896, with Lucy Garnett)
References
- ↑ "The Late Mr. J. S. Stuart Glennie", The Sociological Review, Volume a3, Issue 4, pages 317–323, October 1910.
- ↑ "On the Origin of Fairies: Victorians, Romantics, and Folk Belief", Carole Silver, Browning Institute Studies, Vol. 14, The Victorian Threshold, 1986, pp. 147-150.
- ↑ Silver 1986, p.150; 1999, pp.97–98.