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Focusing on tribes south of Egypt and the Sahara Desert, Klipple analyses about 5,000 tales translated into French, English, German and Spanish. Comparisons were made to discover European and Asiatic analogues, but under 200 were found. However, many variants were included. Coordination with A-Th and the motif-index is made. Klipple concluded that the versions of the tales are widely dispersed throughout Africa.

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Kirtley bases this work on his 1955 Indiana University dissertation, "A Motif-Index of Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian Narratives." He states in his introduction that since "several chapters of Professor Thompson's Index [are] based to a large extent upon Eurasian texts [they are] represented [here] feebly, two not at all." Kirtley "chose to compile a motif- rather than a type-index for the reason that only a small proportion of Polynesian narrative occurs in a plurality of island groups." The bibliography of works coverd is on pp. xi-xxvi. No index is provided.

In Lituanian, with Russian and English summaries. The catalog does not follow A-Th but references to it are made. Both published and archival material are included. A list of locations for each tale is also included (pp. 54-85). "In the catalogue the legends are divided into two main sections: legends about the origin of natural objects and legends about historical monuments and events"--p. 107. List of abbreviations used: pp. 86-88.

Keller argues that since the Spanish exempla exerted strong influence on all Spanish literature, especially Disciplina Clericalis (which pentrated all western literature), these works should be classed by the motif-index. The fifteen works classified here yield only  a few original motifs.

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TSB, as the authors hope this work will be known, is "not...a motif-index in a strict folkloristic sense." It provides summaries of "838 ballad-types based on between 15,000 and 20,000 texts." Types are based on main motif. Linguistic methods determine what is Scandinavian. The work follows a classification based on no other work. Ballads are divided into six categories as follows: A. Ballads of the supernatural B. Legendary ballads C. Historic ballads D. Ballads of chivalry E. Heroic ballads F. Jocular ballads. A key-word index of ballad titles, coordinating tables to other standard books, and source list are at the end of the work. Some of Jonsson's other published works included related type material. See also David G. Engle's "Types of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballad: Some Considerations," Jahrbuch fuLr Volksliedforschung 24(1979), pp. 161-166. James Porter's "Principles of Ballad Classification: A Suggestion for Regional Catalogues of Ballad Style," Jahrbuch fuLr Volksliedforschung, 25(1980), pp. 11-26 provides a discussion and bibliography for the problems of ballad classification.

Although many other works are indexed, specail attention is given to Keigo Seki's Nippon Mukashibanashi Shusei--a well-known six volume anthology of Japanese folktales. Two sets of cross reference tables are provided, one providing correlatino with Seki's 1966 "Types of Japanese Folktales" which appeared in Asian Folklore Studies; the other links Seki's work with Ikeda-A-Th numbers. The "Index of Motifs is found on pp. 292-340 and gives references to the type numbers in which the motif appears. A "General Index and Glossary" can be found on p. 341. See also Ikeda's article "Type Indexing the Folk Narrative" in Directions in Pacific Traditional Literature: Essays in Honor of Katherine Luomala, ed. by Adrienne L. Kaeppler and H. Arlo Nimmo, 333-350.

See reviews: by W. Eberhard in American Anthropologist, 75(19730, PP. 1049-1050; by M. Eder in Anthropos, 68(19730, pp. 331-332; by T. Obayashi in Zeitschrift fuLr Ethnologie, 97(1972), pp. 145-146; by M. Palaumar in Anthrologie, 77(1973), p. 377. The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japnaese Folk Tale (trans. and ed. by Fanny Hagin Mayer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. 365 pp.) makes accessible much type information in a standard Japanese work.

Based on the author's 1968 Indiana University dissertation. A type-index of folktales (bibl., p. 162) and motif index of erotic folk literature (motif bibl., pp. 187-188) are provided on pages 160-288. Hoffmann's material fits in the standard indexes fairly well but he notes "Chapter X [of Thompson's Motif-Index] provides a unique situation because of Thompson's intentional avoidance of material directly concerned with sexual humor"--p185. See alos Gershon Legman's "Toward a Motif-Index of Erotic Humor" in his The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography (New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1964).

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Among librarians, archivists and historians, the term "an archives" refers specifically to the repository in which papers are housed, not generally to the papers themselves. "An archive" means a single set of papers: "An archive of committee papers." There is some drift between uses and I imagine the singular "archives" will eventually fall out of use altogether, especially as copy editors and people like that are always trying to correct it.