What Is Folklore?
Who are the folk, and what is their lore? Humans have been making and sharing culture from the time we first looked up at the stars and told stories about them, sang a lullaby to a fussy child, or shared a recipe.
‘Folklore’? What do you Mean? And Why?
You’re obviously already interested enough to know what folklore is, right? Yet the more we look at folklore, the less confident we can be about straightforward certainties.
Folklore: To Define or Not To Define? Why is This a Question?
Dr. Lynne S. McNeill explains what folklore is, and what folklorists do.
An Introduction to Academic Folklore Studies
Academic folklore studies—or folkloristics—is a field of scholarship devoted to the classification, documentation, and interpretation of folklore and folklife.