BREWSTER, Paul G. Stendal, Ind. 5.11.1898 — 19??. U.S. Folklorist, Specialist of Games. B.S. 1920 Oakland City College. M.A. 1925 University of Oklahoma (but never Ph.D.). In 1926-29 taught at University of Tennessee, 1929-30 at University of North Carolina, 1948-49 at Surfleff College, 1949-52 at Henderson State Teachers’ College and from 1954 at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville. Married 1940, two children.
Possibly Paul G. Brewster (d. 1987) of Tennessee, married Evened Ayette (19192008), two daughters (barnettstrother.com).
Publications: Books and articles especially on games in various parts of the world, also on folk songs and ballads.
– On India: “Specimens of folklore from Southern India”, Folk-lore 47, 1936, 362-368; “Four Games of Tag From India”, Midwest Folklore 1, 1951, 239-241; “A Collection of Games from India, with some Notes on Similar Games in other Parts of the World”, ZfEthnol. 80, 1955, 88-102; with J. S. Patel, “The Indian Game of Sagargote (Kooka)”, ZfEthnol. 82, 1957, 186-190; “The Earliest known list of Games”, AO 23, 1958, 33-48 (in Brahmajālasutta); “A Worldwide Carne and an Indian Legend”, Eastern Anthropologist 14, 1961, 192-193; “Fire-walking in India and Fiji”, ZfEthnol. 87, 1962, 56-62.
– “Treatise on Iranian Games”, AO 25, 1960, 15-28.
– With S. Hummel, Games of Tibetans. 33 p. FF Communications 77:2. Helsinki 1963.
Sources: Indiana authors in webabb1.dlib.indiana.edu (from Dir. Am. Sch.); game bibliography 1939-65 in healthy.uwaterloo.ca.
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