The Usually Invisible, Occasionally Visible, Spirits of the Dead in Early Twentieth-Century Sámi Folklore by Thomas A. DuBois

“…Examples and analysis are drawn from the writings of Sámi author and scholar Johan Turi (1854–1936), contemporaneous accounts recorded by Norwegian folklorist Just Qvigstad (1853–1957), the fieldwork of Sámi legislator, educator, and folklore collector Isak Saba (1875–1921), and an 1886 anthology of Aanaar (Inari) Sámi folklore. …”
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The role and place of women in the creative work of Naki Isanbet by Mileusha M. Khabutdinova

“…The article presents an attempt to conduct a systematical study of the typology of female images in the works of Naki Isanbet, the Tatar scholar-encyclopedist, folklorist, critic, and classic of Tatar literature (1899–1992). …”
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Orikuchi Shinobu's "Korean" Representation: I Feel Like Wanting to be a Korean by Shimpei NAGAI

“…The purpose of this paper is to consider the possibility and problems of “Korean” representation of Shinobu Orikuchi (1887-1953), who was a poet and a folklorist. The method to do so is to verify the representation of “Korean” in his poem “Sunakeburi” (1924). …”
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Sociology of ritual and narrative as post-Western sociology: from the perspective of Confucianism and Nativism in the Edo period of Japan by Yoshiyuki Yama

“…This paper then reviews a Nativism scholar, Motoori Norinaga, who was active during the Edo period and influenced Japanese environmental sociology through the folklorist Kunuo Yanagita. Finally, a new sociology, which combines the Western sociological theory of ritual, the Japanese Confucian theory of ritual by Ogyu Sorai, and the narrative theory of Norinaga, is presented.…”
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“King Porter Stomp” and the Jazz Tradition by Jeffrey Magee

“…He sat down at the piano and, with the assistance of folklorist Alan Lomax, conveyed his music and life story into what Lomax called a “one-lung portable Presto recorder” (ibid.:287). …”
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Filling historical studies with personal memory and folk memory: new publications of the works by A.N. Minh by M. L. Artamonova

“…It became possible thanks to the efforts of the folklorist and memoirist of the XIX early XX centuries and as a result of the good archaeographic and source study work of modern scientists from Saratov. …”
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Folklore as historical and cultural legasy of the lower Volga region in the first third of the XXth century: B.S. Laschilin, A.M. Listopadov by Rodionova Olga Igorevna

“…Boris Stepanovitch kept selecting songs and ditties, chastooshkas for Voronezh Folk Choir “Voronezh girls”, which are still in the repertoire of the Pyatnitsky Russian Folk Chorus. Folklorist and musician Alexander Mikhailovich Listopadov, who collected and studied folk songs from his youth up, and recorded them in the Don Region hamlets and Cossack villages, spent more than 50 years of his life on the research of the Don Cossack’s musical culture. …”
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No Return: The Gerry Irwin Story. UFO Abduction or Covert Operation? by David Booher by Eddie Bullard

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Rituaalse aasta kajastumine vanasõnades: üldisi tähelepanekuid by Irina Sedakova

“…The question of whether we can speak of ethnic paremia, as asked by the prominent folklorist Dan Ben-Amos (1969) and supported by other scholars, is still very topical, especially in view of the type of proverbial sayings under discussion. …”
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Cinderella of the Breton Polders: suffering and escape in the notebooks of a young, female farm-servant in the 1880s by Hopkin, DM

“…Her father, who died when she ten, was a rag-and-bone man. At the request of folklorist, she filled eleven notebooks with a mixture of songs, traditional tales and three longer, semi-autobiographical fictions, written while she was employed as a farm servant. …”

The framework of studying personal and family stories about material loss and defeat by Dragana Antonijević

“…I find the the­o­re­tic fo­ot­hold in the de­ca­des long fol­klo­ri­stic and anthro­po­lo­gi­cal stu­di­es of per­so­nal sto­ri­es and li­fe hi­sto­ri­es, then in the con­cept by Gary Alan Fi­ne, a so­ci­o­lo­gist and fol­klo­rist, abo­ut the idi­o­cul­tu­re of small gro­ups thro­ugh the di­scus­sion of the fa­mily fol­klo­re, and last in the di­scus­sion of the hi­sto­ric, so­cial-eco­no­mic and ide­o­lo­gi­cal con­text whe­re per­so­nal and fa­mily los­ses oc­cur. …”
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The UFO People: A Curious Culture by M. J. Banias by Eddie Bullard

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The linguistic personality of Dmitry Yavornitsky in the aspect of psycholinguistics by Наталія Григорівна Майборода

“…The object of the research is the linguistic personality of Dmytro Yavornytsky – an outstanding scientist, social and cultural activist, writer, historian, folklorist, and lexicographer. The article explores language means, which determine the artistic individuality of D. …”
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Collective Nicknames of the Perm Region Residents by Irina I. Rusinova, Alexander V. Chernykh

“…The first list of collective nicknames of more than forty units was published in 1927 by a famous Perm folklorist Valentin N. Serebrennikov. In the late 20th — early 21st centuries, intensive fieldwork of dialectologists, ethnographers and folklorists of Perm universities resulted in collecting a rich scope of materials on local nicknames which paved the way for their scholarly interpretation. …”
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Dahl – a Man and a Dictionary (for the 220th Anniversary of the Birth)

“…The author reflects on the fate of the most popular dictionary in Russia, written by the lexicographer, ethnographer and folklorist V. I. Dahl, analyzing the principles of building this “encyclopedia of Russian folk life of the first half of the 19th century” (V. …”
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North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook, edited by David J. Puglia by Eddie Bullard

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Stuart Appelle 1946-2011 by Eddie Bullard

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About folklore in the creative activity of Mykhailo Starytsky and Mykola Lysenko and its influence on the formation of the Ukrainian professional music and drama theater by Liudmyla Kokhan, Larysa Kokhan

“… The article is devoted to the study of folklore activities of Ukrainian playwright, writer, poet, translator, theatrical and cultural figure, director, philanthropist, director of the first Ukrainian professional theater, the so-called “theater of luminaries”, Mykhailo Starytsky (1840–1904) and the founder of the Ukrainian national opera, composer, pianist, conductor, folklorist, public figure Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912). …”
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Poetry and Dramatic Work of Alija Nametak by Nehrudin Rebihić

“…In the drama Jusuf and Zulejha staged the Qur’anic-Biblical historical story about Yusuf a.s. (Joseph.) As a folklorist, Nametak introduced various elements from folk life and customs into the drama, not only to create a context for shaping the character of his characters but also to use their potential for popular, carnival, and subversive distortion of established social and cultural norms and patterns. …”
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CROATIAN TRADITIONARY CULTURE AND LITERATURE IN PERIODICALS AND MONOGRAPHS FROM ROMANTICISM UP TO DATE by Marko Dragić

“…The first Croatian folklorist Petar Hektorović in his Fishing and Fishermen’s Talk (1568) originally recorded two bugarshtitsas (popular quindecasyllabic / hexadecasyllabic ballads), three odes and one ballad. …”
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