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folklore

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
folklore the body of customs, legends, beliefs, and superstitions passed on by oral tradition. It includes folk dances , folk songs , folk medicine (the use of magical charms and herbs), and folktales (myths, rhymes, and proverbs). The study of folklore emerged significantly in the 19th cent., partly out of the rise of European romanticism, with its interest in the past, and partly out of nationalism, with its stress on the indigenous. Today most folklorists and anthropologists regard folk customs, legends, and beliefs as an imaginative expression by a people of its desires, attitudes,... Read more
Zora Neale Hurston
Encyclopedia of World Biography ... for her collection of African American folklore Mules and Men (1935) and her novel Their ... to 1932 she studied anthropology and folklore at Columbia University under Franz Boas ... Fellowship for travelling and collecting folklore in Haiti and the British West Indies ... Read more
Hurston, Zora Neale
U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ... for her collection of African American folklore Mules and Men (1935) and her novel Their ... anthropology (the study of human culture) and folklore at Columbia University under Franz Boas ... Fellowship for travelling and collecting folklore in Haiti and the British West Indies ... Read more

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