ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE MILLENNIUM. FOLKLORE AND FOLKLORISTICS IN SLOVAKIA by Katarína Žeňuchová, Peter Žeňuch

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The Role of Theory in Folkloristics and Comparative Religion by Matti Kamppinen

“…Lauri Honko was known for his originality and theoretical innovations: he constructed multiple approaches to the study of culture that are still relevant in folkloristics and comparative religion.In this paper I aim at explicating and analysing Honko’s views about the roles of theory in folkloristics and comparative religion. …”
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ARCHER TAYLOR TO A YOUNG LITERARY FOLKLORIST by George Monteiro

“… After having seen a collection of Portuguese proverbs in Western Folklore in 1963, Archer Taylor initiated a correspondence with the young folklorist George Monteiro who had put together the collection. …”
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“…of immediate use to society”. On Folklorists, Archives and the Definition of “Others” by Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius, Lotta Fernstål

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Supernatural beings of Pomerania: postmodern mapping of folkloristic sources by Włodzimierz Juśkiewicz, Jakub Jaszewski, Dariusz Brykała, Robert Piotrowski, K.M. Alexander, Kacper B. Juśkiewicz

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En folklorist ser på studiet av køn by Karin Lützen

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Anthropology and folkloristics: Alfred Gell’s theory of art and understanding of folklore by Simić Marina, Jović Danica

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Towards the paths of developing a discipline: Albanian folkloristics in Kosovo by Arbnora Dushi

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Sakharov, Kireevsky, Afanasyev and others: Stravinsky in the context of Russian folkloristics by Zochios Stamatis

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A Folkloristic Analysis of Polish Immigrant Narratives in Western Canada by Deutsch James I.

“…This article focuses on the migration experiences of Józef Bauer (arriving in Canada in 1946), Helena Beznowska (arriving 1948), Marian Pawiński (arriving 1949), and Erika Wolf-May (arriving 1953). Explored from a folkloristic perspective, these four narratives fulfill the four functions of folklore: entertainment, education, validation and reinforcement of beliefs and conduct, and maintaining the stability, solidarity, cohesiveness, and continuity of a group within the larger mass culture. …”
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M. G. Varvounis. Professor Minas Al. Alexiadis and the Greek Folkloristics by Aristeides N. Doulaveras

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Folkloristic Contributions towards Religious Studies in Estonia: A Historical Outline by Ülo Valk

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Representation of Christmas Rituals in Leonid Solomatkin’s Paintings as a Folkloristic and Ethnographic Source by Svetlana P. Sorokina

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Federico Garcia Lorca as Folklorist: the Ibero-American Romance de don Gato by Israel J. Katz, Roger D. Tinnell

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0311 Folkloristic Cosmopolitanism: Mexico’s Indigenist Architectures at World’s Fairs and International Exhibitions by Miriam Oesterreich

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My Folkloristic History of the Việt Nam War: A Non-communist Experience by Long S. Le

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The Work of Jewish Folklorist Solomon Beilin in the Context of the Development of Yiddish Culture in the 1920s–1930s by E. A. Berman

“…Beilin (1858–1942), a Jewish folklorist, ethnographer, and publicist, the Rabbi of the cities of Rogachev and Irkutsk, who was one of the first researchers to collect and systematize the Jewish folklore on the territory of the Russian Empire. …”
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Writing a folklorist’s persona in the field: How defining the object of study defines the scholar by Lisa Svanfeldt-Winter

“…In this article, I approach negotiations of belonging by studying the relationship between folklorists and their informants. I examine how young Finnish folklorists on their first collection journeys in the early 1920s positioned themselves as scholars by stressing both their identification with and their differences from the informants. …”
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British women folklorists in Post-Unification Italy: Rachel Busk and Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco by Hopkin, D

“…As Vincenzo Ambrogi and Basilio Tinti highlighted in another recent article (2016), in their case on Herbert Morris Bower, British folklorists were important contributors to the development of folklore studies in Italy, as they were in several European countries. …”

Tuleb uurida väikerahvaste kultuure, et päästa suured. Intervjuu komi folkloristi ja etnograafi Pavel Limeroviga tema 55. sünnipäeva puhul by Nikolay Kuznetsov

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