Art and Life in the Openfield Village

FAIN: FT-13815-78

Henry H. Glassie
International Folk Art Foundation (Santa Fe, NM 87504-2087)

To study the relationship between communal social organization and aesthetic expressiveness in an openfield village, Braunton, in Devonshire, England. The folklore of a communal village where cooperative forms of work are extended to clustered habitations and unfenced fields. An understanding of how Braunton1s folklore is affected by their special social purposes will be enhanced by comparison with folklore of neighboring, non-communal villages.