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Translingual Folklore and Folklorics in China

2012
Folklore can mean different things to different people and even become different things as it travels from place to place across the various technological media: writing, print, gramophone, radio, film, television, and so on. Focusing on the work of modern folklorists in China and their translation of a colonial discourse, this article – a chapter in ...
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The Folklore of Pregnancy

Psychological Reports, 1988
The similarity of attitudes towards pregnancy and childbirth was investigated in two studies. Study 1 examined the attitudes towards the preference of the sex of first- and second born children among 1169 college students, who were not yet parents, in four samples, from 1978 to 1986.
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A Requiem for Folklore?: Myth, Truth, and Folklorism [PDF]

open access: possibleTekstualia, 2013
Requiem for Folklore?… The Myths and Truths of Folklorism The article is concerned with the present state of folklore. There is a fundamental difference between what folklore really meant when it existed and what it means nowadays, in the era of global media.
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Folklore and Historic Preservation: Past, Present, and Future

Journal of American Folklore, 2019
:This article seeks to reinvigorate folklorists' engagement with historic preservation in the United States. It provides an overview of major historic preservation legislation and organizations, summarizes past benchmarks, and highlights selected case ...
L. Sommers
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The ‘folklore’ and reality of reticular chemistry

, 2017
Reticular chemistry, linking molecular building blocks together by strong bonds to make porous frameworks, is a rapidly expanding field of research, engaging laboratories worldwide.
K. E. Cordova, O. Yaghi
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Seaweeds in mythology, folklore, poetry, and life

Journal of Applied Phycology, 2020
J. L. Pérez-Lloréns   +4 more
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Finding a Folklore

Pomegranate, 1999
Wilhelm Mannhardt tended to over emphasise ancient European religions as concerned with fertility rites, and made a leap beyond the evidence to assert that they had been focused upon the concept of animating spirits of vegetation.
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Animals in Folklore

2014
This essay surveys the representation of animals in folklore from the fables of Aesop to the search for Bigfoot. Unlike most of modern culture, folklore attributes great power, understanding, autonomy, and significance to animals. While folklorists have often found this deeply poetic, they were also made uncomfortable by the suggestion of magic and, to
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Public Folklore

Museum Anthropology, 1994
Public Folklore. Edited by ROBERT BARON and NICHOLAS R. SPITZER. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. 370 pp., 15 b/w photographs. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).
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