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Irish Folklore Commission
The Oxford Companion to Irish History
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2007
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Irish Folklore Commission, a state‐funded body established in 1935. It collected material on popular custom, tradition, and belief, using full‐and part‐time collectors throughout the country. A representative sample of its work may be found in the journal
Bealoideas (1927– ). The commission was disbanded in 1971, but its work is carried on by the Department of Irish Folklore at University College, Dublin, where its archives are housed.
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The folklore of Northern Scotland: Five Discourses on Cultural Representation.
Magazine article from: Folklore; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...in the limits of this lecture, to the folklore of Northern Scotland, a relatively vast...superficial and repetitive, to summarise the folklore that has been amassed over two and a...the end of last century wrote to the Folklore Society offering them a book on Caithness...
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Folklore in Utah: A History and Guide to Resources
Magazine article from: Voices; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Folklore in Utah: A History and Guide to Resources, edited...folkloristic methodology to trace the development of folklore study in Utah through three generations of scholarship and public folklore administration. Interpretive essays on folklorists...
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Filmic Folklore and Chinese Cultural Identity
Magazine article from: Western Folklore; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; INTRODUCTION Chinese folklore has played a key role in reconstructing...hardly find any publication on Chinese folklore in the films besides commentaries...In China, the fictional films with folklore content are generally called nongcui...
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Folklore and literature: Canadian contexts.
Magazine article from: Ethnologies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...York University The interplay between folklore and literature is an on-going aspect...significant. In the last two centuries, folklore and literature have been both opposed...prestige, yet it has often drawn on folklore as one source of that prestige; and...
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Public Folklore
Magazine article from: Voices; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Public Folklore, edited by Robert Baron and Nick Spitzer...paper. Robert Baron and Nick Spitzer's Public Folklore has become a standard text for many graduate programs that offer folklore concentrations, and it has long been a useful...
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Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions
Magazine article from: Western Folklore; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People...95 cloth) A common complaint about folklore textbooks is that they are too advanced...lower-division undergraduates. Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People...
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Folklore from the grassroots
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...years there have been discussions at American Folklore Society (AFS) annual conference presentations...recently in the summer 1998journal ofAmerican Folklore OAF) about the image and role of folklore studies in the contemporary world. For example...
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Folklore and Fascism: The Reich Institute for German Volkskunde.
Magazine article from: Asian Folklore Studies; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...importance to scholars of German Volkskunde, or folklore. This is because the concerns of folklore - nation, folk, community, etc. - had...and because the institutionalization of folklore received a great boost during the Third Reich...
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On scapegoating public folklore
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; On Scapegoating Public Folklore The call to abandon the word folklore as the name for our discipline has apparently been...BenAmos argues logically and poetically for the term folklore as meaningful and central to a field of inquiry. I...
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American folklore brought to life in U. Hawaii-Manoa course
News Wire article from: University Wire; 7/28/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...and stories that are folklores. Yet folklore does not have to be as giant as Paul...commercialized stories and tall tales. "Folklore is an important force in shaping and...critical issues surrounding American folklore in relation to community, ethical...
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Folklore
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
FOLKLORE Folklore has played a vital role in the lives of the Russian people and has exerted...Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Peter Tchaikovsky, and Igor Stravinsky. A folklore tradition has existed and flourished in Russia for many centuries...
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folklore
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
folklore. Despite the presence of what might be...John Aubrey (1626–97), folklore as a discipline really became established...coining of the English term ‘folklore’ being attributed to W. J...
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Folklore, Food in
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
FOLKLORE, FOOD IN FOLKLORE, FOOD IN. While doing folklore fieldwork with the Singing and Praying Bands of tidewater Maryland and Delaware, the present author observed a minor event that made a major impression on him. The Singing and Praying...
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Ethnology and Folklore
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Ethnology and Folklore Ethnology and folklore emerged as the “ science of tradition ”...adaptation, and function of tradition within complex societies. Folklore and ethnology are related, sometimes linked, concepts for...
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Folklore Society
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Folklore Society Pioneer British scholarly society...cultures, founded in 1878. The term folklore was coined by the antiquary W. J. Thomas...customs, and popular superstitions. The Folklore Society has as its objectives to promote...
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