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Public folklore is a relatively new offshoot of folklore studies, starting after the Second World War and modeled on the work of Alan Lomax and Ben Botkin in the 1930s. Lomax and Botkin emphasized applied folklore , with modern public sector folklorists working to document, preserve and present the beliefs and customs of diverse cultural groups ...
A notable student he mentored at Kiel was W. F. H. Nicolaisen who had a distinguished career in folklore studies in the United States and Scotland. In 1950 Anderson was invited to the US to take part in a meeting of the International Folk Music Council held in Bloomington, Indiana , after which he stayed at Indiana University Bloomington for a ...
From 1912 to 1915, he held the Chair of Ethnography at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland but was expelled for expressing doubts about the neutrality of Switzerland during World War I. [citation needed] There he reorganized the museum and organized the first ethnographic conference (1914). In 1922, he toured the United States.
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"Family Oral Histories in the Wider History of War: Afghanistan" in Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 21.2, pp. 2–11 (1996). "The Gender of the Trick: Female Tricksters and Male Narrators" in Asian Folklore Studies 60:2, Special Issue on Folklore of the Iranian Region, John Perry, ed., pp. 238–258 (2001).
Venetia Newall was born in London in 1935, to an American father and English mother. During the Second World War she stayed with her paternal grandfather in the United States. In 1953 she went to the University of St Andrews to read English Language and Literature. She would later gain a doctorate from the University for her work on Folklore. [1]
In 1938, he was commissioned by the renowned folklorist Georgios A. Megas to work as Editor for the Archives of Folklore at the Academy of Athens (now Centre for Greek Folklore Research). His work there was interrupted during World War II when, in 1940, he was sent to Albania to be part of the Greek army that repulsed Mussolini's
The son of Ludvig von Sydow, an agricultural school administrator, and Friherrin Göthilda Rappe, von Sydow was born in Ryssby and educated in Växjö; he entered Lund University as a student in 1897 and earned his master's degree in 1908 with a study of the legend of Finn and his wife and his doctorate in 1909 with a thesis titled Två spinnsagor—en studie i jämförande folksagoforskning ...