Richard Mercer Dorson: Institutionalization and Internationalization of the American Folklore Science by Ljubomir Hristić

“…The legacy of Dorson's writings to future American, and folklorists world­wide, is rich and complex, requir­ing the long term for its full significance to be appre­ciated. …”
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Memorates and memory. Reevaluation of Lauri Honko’s theory. by Vladimír Bahna

“…It confronts psychological knowledge about autobiographical memory and folkloristic theories associated with the concept of memorate – a personal experience narrative which is build upon a supernatural belief. …”
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Keele ja Kirjanduse Instituudist ning maailmatasemest by Ülo Tedre, Rein Veidemann

“…Ülo Tedre and Rein Veidemann try to find an answer to why folklorists write monographs and not articles required by the academic system.…”
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Lithuanian Cultural Landscape in Folklore from the Perspective of Values by Bronė Stundžienė

“…In the article, the contemporary human being’s search for values is primarily linked to the folkloristic reflection of Lithuanian cultural landscape. …”
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Key Conceptual Threads in Ukrainian Canadian Ethnography by Andriy Nahachewsky

“…Ukrainian Canadian ethnography has been strongly integrated with North American scholarship in general, but until recently it was poorly connected with folkloristics and ethnology in Ukraine. Canadian ethnography has potential to contribute to Ukraine’s ethnology and folkloristics through its nuanced elaboration of the importance of context and its documentation of processes of cultural change and hybridity, urban traditions, ethnic identity and revival, and multicultural relations.…”
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Among the PALMs1 by Lee Haring

“…Performance-based folkloristics looks like a new blend, or network, of elements from several of those. …”
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Sööme, joome, lükkame, sõidame... Sotsiaalmeediakasutajate mäng Facebooki sündmuse formaadis by Mare Kalda

“…It is reasonable to consider the event-organising game as a special vernacular practice that deserves to be observed from a folkloristic perspective. The analysis focuses on various aspects of fake events – the genre of these actions, the seriality of events, the dialogue between the participants and those interested in the comments sections, but also the peculiarities of the co-created content. …”
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Vladimír Helfert ve Státním ústavu pro lidovou píseň by Jarmila Procházková

“…Vladimír Helfert's publishing activity in the field of musical folkloristics and ethnomusicology was not extensive. …”
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Naming America's Graveyards, Cemeteries, Memorial Parks, and Gardens of Memories by Fred Tarpley

“…Abstract While many urban cemeteries today bear the stamp of perpetually endowed conformity, America's burial grounds still attract the interests of linguists, historians, folklorists, and anthropologists seeking to understand cultural cycles transmitted by the communities of the dead. …”
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Introduction by Dániel Bárth

“… The MTA-ELTE Lendület (“Momentum”) Historical Folkloristics Research Group organized a separate panel at the 16th Congress of SIEF (Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore), the world’s largest ethnological and folklore organization, which took place in Brno, Czech Republic, in June 2023. …”
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Tokkelossie, “’n Boesman, outa Hendrik” en ontkennende <i>close readings</i> by H. Willemse

“…Tikoloshe, “a Bushman, outa Hendrik” and denialist close readings This article explores in two main sections the changing perceptions of Afrikaner folklorists and literary critics on the origins of selected indigenous Southern African oral tales. …”
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Loodus tuleb tagasi: delfiinid ja saurused. Libauudistest, photoshop-muistenditest ja meemidest koroonakarantiini ajal by Eda Kalmre

“…This material spread globally, yet it was also readily “translated” into the Estonian context, and – what is very characteristic of the entire pandemic material – when approaching this material, truthful and fabricated texts, photos, and videos were combined. From the folkloristic point of view, these rumours in the form of fake news, first presented in the function of a tall tale and further following the sliding truth scale of legends, constitute a part of coping strategies, so-called crisis humour, yet, on the other hand, also a belief story presenting positive imagery, which surrounds the mainly apocalyptically perceived pandemic period and interprets the human existence on a wider scale. …”
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Hook or hatchet – Lover's Lane, love scene epilogue by Ivan Kovačević

“…Myth of a co­u­ple who esca­pe de­ath in a chan­ce en­co­un­ter with the psycho­path with a ho­ok in­stead of a hand, is one of the ten clas­sic ur­ban le­gends that ha­ve been bro­ught to pu­blic at­ten­tion by fol­klo­rists du­ring the sixth and se­venth de­ca­de of the twen­ti­eth cen­tury. …”
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Geleneksellik - Gerçeklik İlişkisi Bağlamında Bilginin Niteliği ve Folklorda Yalan Haber - I by Mustafa Duman

“…In addition, the attitude that folklorists should have in examining particular issues related to fake news such as the changes in the knowledge-sharing environment and reproduction of the knowledge are evaluated. …”
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Estonian Teachers’ Day – October 5. From 1960s to Nowadays by Mare Kõiva, Andres Kuperjanov

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Memorial Landscape of the Ural Town in the Material of Folklore Archive (Kaslee, 1970‑1980) by Natalia B. Gramatchikova

“…The study shows how the scientific and methodological attitudes of folklorists and the methods of interaction between collectors and informants are reflected in the collection of field archival materials from a particular area. …”
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“THE NATIONALITY OF FOLKLORE” by Ana Ashtalkovska Gajtanoska

“… “The nationality of folklore” is a title inspired by the vast number of articles in the journal “Macedonian Folklore” that deals with the establishment of the Macedonian national affiliation of the folklore as one of the main goals of Macedonian folkloristics. The main interest in this article is focused on the treatment of folklore in the period of ex-Yugoslavia, with a particular emphasis on the idealized, subjective, ideologically, and patriotically burdened narration concerning the folklore and its bearers. …”
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Une femme faussaire dans les Landes de Gascogne sous l’Ancien-Régime by Bernard Traimond

“…The Gascon folkloriste Félix Arnaudin (1844-1921) tells the story of the lady of Z, model of the woman counterfeiter who would have lived and made of the counterfeit money at the beginning of the XVIIIth century to Escource. …”
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Pozabljeni Kamnik in njegovo jezero<br>Forgotten Kamnik and Its Lake</br> by Marija Klobčar

“…During ethnological-folkloristic work in the Kamnik area, I often came across accounts of Kamnik or Nevlje Lake in the narratives of the local people. …”
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Nooreestlastest ja rahvaluulest by Ruth Mirov

“…Besides other courses, they also attended lectures on folkloristics. The young men were supportedin their endeavours to study national sciences by Jaan Tõnisson, Chief Editor of the newspaper Postimees (Postman) published in Tartu, as well as Aino and Oskar Kallas, the latter of whom had received his PhD degree in folkloristics at Helsinki University in 1901. …”
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