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Folklore studies (also known as folkloristics, tradition studies or folk life studies in the UK) [1] is the academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, [ note 1 ] gained currency in the 1950s to distinguish the academic study of traditional culture from the folklore artifacts themselves.
Gwladys F. Hughes Simon (May 26, 1907 – March 15, 1996) was an American educator and folklorist employed by the United States Department of State for much of her career. . She worked in Japan after World War II, educating the children of American military and civilian personnel in the United States Occupational Forc
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 ...
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 ...
Folklore lets people escape from repressions imposed upon them by society. Folklore validates culture, justifying its rituals and institutions to those who perform and observe them. Folklore is a pedagogic device which reinforces morals and values and builds wit. Folklore is a means of applying social pressure and exercising social control.
Zhong was a major contributor to Folksong Weekly (歌謠週刊; Gēyáo Zhōukān), an early folklore studies journal published at Peking University from 1922 to 1925. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1926, he traveled to Guangzhou , where he began work and study at Lingnan University .
It was during her pre-war activities in Cheshire that Hole started to collect folklore seriously, activities that led to her first dedicated folklore book, Traditions and Customs of Cheshire (1937). [3] Hole's many books were aimed at a popular audience and have been described as being “characterised by their gentle lucidity and common sense ...
"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).