Ep079 The Isaac Mercer Mummer Murder Case.
Joy Fraser is Assistant Professor of English and Associate Director of the Folklore Studies program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. She is completing a book tracing the cultural history of haggis as a contested symbol of Scottishness, provisionally entitled Addressing the Haggi...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Other Authors: | |
Format: | Audio |
Language: | English |
Published: |
2017
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_oral/id/714 |
id |
ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:ich_oral/714 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:ich_oral/714 2023-12-31T10:13:55+01:00 Ep079 The Isaac Mercer Mummer Murder Case. Jarvis, Dale Fraser, Joy Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador-St. John's 2017-06-21 Audio/mp3 30:00 minutes; 54.9 MB http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_oral/id/714 eng eng Intangible Cultural Heritage - Oral Traditions and Expressions http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_oral/id/714 CC BY-NC 4.0 Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory Oral traditions expressions and the written word Sound Audio 2017 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:22Z Joy Fraser is Assistant Professor of English and Associate Director of the Folklore Studies program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. She is completing a book tracing the cultural history of haggis as a contested symbol of Scottishness, provisionally entitled Addressing the Haggis: Culture and Contestation in the Making of Scotland’s National Dish. For the past several years, she has also been researching the relationship between Christmas mumming, violence, and the law in nineteenth-century Newfoundland. In this episode, we focus on the murder of Isaac Mercer in Bay Roberts, who was beset upon by mummers, hit with a hatchet, and who died of his wounds. We explore the background of mummering traditions in Newfoundland, differences in mummering traditions in different communities, the events surrounding the murder case, her research using court case records at local archives, the licensing and eventual banning of mummering, and the link between mummering and violence in the historical period. Audio Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
op_collection_id |
ftmemorialunivdc |
language |
English |
topic |
Oral traditions expressions and the written word |
spellingShingle |
Oral traditions expressions and the written word Jarvis, Dale Ep079 The Isaac Mercer Mummer Murder Case. |
topic_facet |
Oral traditions expressions and the written word |
description |
Joy Fraser is Assistant Professor of English and Associate Director of the Folklore Studies program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. She is completing a book tracing the cultural history of haggis as a contested symbol of Scottishness, provisionally entitled Addressing the Haggis: Culture and Contestation in the Making of Scotland’s National Dish. For the past several years, she has also been researching the relationship between Christmas mumming, violence, and the law in nineteenth-century Newfoundland. In this episode, we focus on the murder of Isaac Mercer in Bay Roberts, who was beset upon by mummers, hit with a hatchet, and who died of his wounds. We explore the background of mummering traditions in Newfoundland, differences in mummering traditions in different communities, the events surrounding the murder case, her research using court case records at local archives, the licensing and eventual banning of mummering, and the link between mummering and violence in the historical period. |
author2 |
Fraser, Joy |
format |
Audio |
author |
Jarvis, Dale |
author_facet |
Jarvis, Dale |
author_sort |
Jarvis, Dale |
title |
Ep079 The Isaac Mercer Mummer Murder Case. |
title_short |
Ep079 The Isaac Mercer Mummer Murder Case. |
title_full |
Ep079 The Isaac Mercer Mummer Murder Case. |
title_fullStr |
Ep079 The Isaac Mercer Mummer Murder Case. |
title_full_unstemmed |
Ep079 The Isaac Mercer Mummer Murder Case. |
title_sort |
ep079 the isaac mercer mummer murder case. |
publishDate |
2017 |
url |
http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_oral/id/714 |
op_coverage |
Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador-St. John's |
genre |
Newfoundland |
genre_facet |
Newfoundland |
op_source |
Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory |
op_relation |
Intangible Cultural Heritage - Oral Traditions and Expressions http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_oral/id/714 |
op_rights |
CC BY-NC 4.0 |
_version_ |
1786801862473678848 |