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Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore such as fairy tales and folk mythology in oral or non-literary traditions. It makes use of such methods as the Aarne-Thompson classification system or the morphology devised for Russian tales by Vladimir Propp. Folklore is the body of narratives, including tales, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs current among a particular population, comprising the oral tradition of that culture, subculture, or group. ... A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ... The word mythology (from the Greek μυϑολογία mythología, from μυϑολογειν mythologein to relate myths, from μυϑος mythos, meaning a narrative, and λογος logos, meaning speech or argument) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and... Oral tradition or oral culture is a way of transmitting history, literature or law from one generation to the next in a civilization without a writing system. ... Antti Aarne (1867 - 1925) was a Finnish folklorist, who developed the initial version of what became the Aarne-Thompson classification system of classifying folktales, first published in 1910. ... Morphology is a subdiscipline of linguistics that studies word structure. ... Vladimir Propp (St Petersburg, April 29, 1895 - Leningrad August 22, 1970) was a Russian structuralist scholar who analysed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements. ...


Scholars specializing in folkloristics are known as folklorists or mythologists. Some scholars include :

Antti Amatus Aarne (1867 - 1925) was a Finnish folklorist, who developed the initial version of what became the Aarne-Thompson classification system of classifying folktales, first published in 1910. ... Walter Anderson (Minsk, (Belarus) October 10, 1885 – August 23, 1962 in Kiel (Germany) was a German ethnologist (folklorist). ... Ben Botkin (1901-1975) was an American folklorist and scholar. ... Jan Harold Brunvand (born 1933) is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah in the United States who is best known for spreading the concept of the urban legend, or modern folklore. ... Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) was an American writer, born in Newton, Massachusetts to a highly-educated but not rich Bostonian merchant family. ... John Francis Campbell (1822 - 1885), celtic scholar, educated at Eton and Edin. ... Thomas Crofton Croker (1798 - 1854) was a Irish Antiquary, born at Cork, for some years held a position in the Admiralty. ... James Frank Dobie ( September 26, 1888-September 18, 1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range. ... Alan Dundes, (September 8, 1935 – March 30, 2005) was a folklorist at the University of California at Berkeley. ... Arnold Van Gennep was born 23 April 1873 at Ludwigsbourg in Germany and died in 1957 at Bourg-la-Reine in France. ... Glen Grant, looking through the window of his store, the Haunt, in a 2001 photo. ... Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm The Brothers Grimm (Gebrüder Grimm) are Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm and were well known for publishing collections of German fairy tales, as Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Childrens and Household Tales), in 1812, with a second volume in 1814 (1815 on the title page), as... Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 - May 31, 1963) was a classicist and educator before she became a writer on mythology. ... Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891–January 28, 1960) was an African-American folklorist and author. ... Douglas Hyde (Irish name Dubhghlas de hÍde) (17 January 1860 - 12 July 1949) was an Irish language scholar who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945. ... Alan Jabbour (born 1942 - ) was born in 1942 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, and was educated in Jacksonville public schools and at the Bolles School, where he graduated from high school in 1959. ... Thomas Keightley (1789 - 1872) was a historian, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, who wrote works on mythology and folklore, and at the request of Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby, a series of text-books on English, Greek, and other histories. ... Eric Alfred Knudsen (born July 29, 1872, in Waiawa, Kauai, Hawaii; died February 12, 1957, in Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii) was a noted writer, folklorist, lawyer and politician who grew up and lived on Kauai. ... For the former National Basketball Association player, see Andrew Lang (basketball player). ... Gershon Legman (November 2, 1917 – February 23, 1999), American folklorist and social critic, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to parents of Eastern or Central European Jewish descent. ... Lomax playing guitar, sometime between 1938 and 1950 Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American folklorist and musicologist specializing in the music of the United States and that of other nations which influenced American music. ... John Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 - January 26, 1948) was a pioneering musicologist and folklorist. ... Elias Lönnrot Elias Lönnrot (April 9, 1802 - March 19, 1884) was a Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. ... Albert Bates Lord was a Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard who, after the untimely death of Milman Parry, carried on that scholars research into epic literature. ... Max Müller Friedrich Max Müller (i dont know when he was alive), more commonly known as Max Müller, was a German-born British Philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of Indian studies, who virtually created the discipline of comparative religion. ... William Wells Newell (1839 - 1907), American minister, philosophy professor and folklorist. ... Alfred Trubner Nutt (1856-1910) was a British publisher, now known for his writing as folklorist and Celticist. ... Axel Olrik (1864-1917) was a Danish folklorist, a pioneer in the methodical study of oral narrative. ... Charles Perrault, 1665 Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628–May 16, 1703) was a French author. ... Giuseppe Pitrè (December 21, 1841 – April 10, 1916) was an Italian folklorist credited with extending the realm of folklore to include all the manifestations of popular life. ... Vladimir Propp (St Petersburg, April 29, 1895 - Leningrad August 22, 1970) was a Russian structuralist scholar who analysed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements. ... Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde (born 1821 or 1826, depending on source - died February 3, 1896) (née Jane Francesca Elgee) was an Irish poet, translator and supporter of the nationalist movement; she was the wife of Sir William Wilde and mother of Oscar Wilde. ... Özhan Öztürk, 2005 Turkish folklorist, writer (b. ...

Literature on the subject of folkloristics

  • Aarne, Antti (1961). "The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography." ed. S. Thompson, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, Helsinki
  • Azzolina, David S. (1987). "Tale Type- and Motif- Indexes: An Annotated Bibliography" New York
  • Ben-Amos, Dan (1976). "Folklore Genres" Austin
  • Bendix, Regina (1988). "In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies" Madison
  • Bennett, Gillian, and Paul Smith (1993). "Contemporary Legend: A Folklore Bibliography" New York
  • Brednich, Rolf W. et al (2000)., Enzyklopädie des Märchens: Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin - New York
  • Bronner, Simon (1988) "American Children's Folklore" Little Rock
  • Brunvand, Jan Harold (1997). "The Study of American Folklore" 4th ed. New York
  • Carvalho-Neto, Paulo (1971). "The Concept of Folklore" Coral Gables
  • Child, Francis J. (1962). "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads" New York
  • Christiansen, Reidar (1958). "The Migratory Legends" Folklore Fellows Communication #175, Helsinki
  • Cocchiara, Giuseppe (1981). "The History of Folklore in Europe" Philadelphia
  • Degh, Linda (1969). "Folktales and Society: Storytelling in a Hungarian Peasant Community" Bloomington
  • Dorson, Richard (1959). "American Folklore" Chicago
  • Dorson, Richard (1972). "Folkolre: Selected Essays" Bloomington
  • Dundes, Alan, ed. (1965). The Study of Folklore. Prentice Hall.
  • Dundes, Alan (1975). "Analytic Essays in Folklore" The Hague
  • Dundes, Alan (1980). "Interpreting Folklore" Bloomington
  • Dundes, Alan (1973). "Wother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore" Englewood Cliffs
  • Dundes, Alan (1984). "Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth" Berkeley
  • Dundes, Alan, ed. (1999). International Folkloristics. Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Finnegan, Ruth (1970). "Oral Literature in Africa" Oxford
  • Glassie, Henry (1982). "Passing the Time in Ballymenone" Philadelphia
  • Goldstein, Kenneth (1964). "A Guide for Field Workers in Folklore" Hatboro, Pennsylvania
  • Hiatt, L.R., ed, (1975). "Australian Aboriginal Mythology" Canberra
  • Holbek, Bengt (1987). "Interpretation of Fairy Tales" Folklore Fellows Communication #239, Helsinki
  • Hung, Chang-tai (1985). "Going to the People: Chinese Intellectuals and Folk Literature 1918-1937" Harvard East Asian Monographs 121, Cambridge
  • Krohn, Kaarle (1971). "Folklore Methodology" Austin
  • Lord, Albert (1960). "The Singer of Tales" Cambridge, Mass.
  • Mieder, Wolfgang (1982). "International Proverb Scholarship" New York
  • Mieder, Wolfgang (2004). "Proverbs: A Handbook" Westport
  • Propp, Vladimir (1968). "Morphology of the Folktale" Austin
  • Rank, Otto (1959) "The Myth of the Birth of the Hero" New York
  • Schlereth, Thomas J., ed. (1985). "Material Culture: A Research Guide" Lawrence
  • Scott, Charles T. (1965). "Persian and Arabic Riddles: A Language-Centered Approach to Genre Definition" International Journal of American Linguistics, Part II
  • Taylor, Archer (1972). "Comparative Studies in Folklore: Asia-Europe-America" Taiwan
  • Thompson, Stith (1946). The Folktale, The Dryden Press, New York
  • Voigt, Vilmos (1999). "Suggestions Towards a Theory of Folklore" Budapest
  • Zumwalt, Rosemary Levy (1988). "American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent" Bloomington

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C.A.R.T.S. (1912 words)
Folklorists study and think a lot about the skills and knowledge of different communities of people in the United States who pass on their values, attitudes, and beliefs through crafts, stories, music, dance and celebrations.
Folklorists document these traditions to preserve and share them with people both inside and outside the community.
A folklorist can go into a community and visit with an individual, ask questions, and tie different traditions together in a way that may make the person think more consciously about their every day activities.
Folkloristics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (110 words)
Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore such as fairy tales and folk mythology in oral or non-literary traditions.
It makes use of such methods as the Aarne-Thompson classification system or the morphology devised for Russian tales by Vladimir Propp.
Scholars specializing in folkloristics are known as folklorists or mythologists.
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