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Folklore and Disability: An Important—and Too Often Overlooked—Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts

Journal of American Folklore
:In this paper, I argue that the field of folklore and folklorists can—and should— make more of a contribution to global health and international development efforts and should be more involved in conversations about social justice and human rights ...
Nora Ellen Groce
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Folklore Training for the Public Humanities: Podcasting

Journal of American Folklore
:Universities are increasingly turning to the public humanities—humanities work that engages broad audiences outside academia—to address concerns raised by the "crisis in the humanities." In this essay, I demonstrate how the skills and experiences I ...
Kimberly Jenkins Marshall
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The Role of Folklore and Legends in Enriching Narrative Depth: A Study of Ingqumbo Yeminyanya (The Wrath of the Ancestors)

Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies
This article examines the role of folklore and legends in enhancing the narrative depth of literature using the book Ingqumbo Yeminyanya (The Wrath of the Ancestors) as a reference point.
Andiswa Mvanyashe
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Folklore Made Me Disabled: Integrating Disability Studies into Folklore Research

Journal of American Folklore
:Persons outside of disability communities often have negative perceptions of disabilities, yet such beliefs may create more problems for people with disabilities than the disability itself.
Teresa Milbrodt
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MODERN PROCESSES IN THE MUSICAL FOLKLORE OF NARYM SELKUPS

Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics
The article discusses the processes of development of modern musical folklore among the Narym Selkups based on the analysis of the publication “Ob tunes of Narym Selkups” (compiled by V. Tuzakova and I. Korobeynikova, Tomsk, 2015).
O. Dobzhanskaya
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American Folklore Studies and Disability: An Introduction

Journal of American Folklore
:As an introduction to the special issue on folklore and disability, this essay offers a brief overview of how concerns about disability have historically been included in folklore studies in the United States.
A. Prahlad
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CHASTUSHKA ON THE INTERNET: BETWEEN FOLKLORE AND STYLIZATION

Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics
Сhastushka’s – four-line folk ditties, usually humorous, sung in a lively manner, were widely spread during the 20th century. It is believed today that these ditties are the only genre of traditional folklore that still productively and actively exists ...
Ekaterina A. Zakrevskaya
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Decoding Figurative Folklore: A Case of Xitsonga Proverbs

Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies
This article examines the nature, use, and meanings of proverbs as tools of discourse and philosophical expressions among Vatsonga. Within the Vatsonga traditions, proverbs, as a form of folklore, are verbally expressed and transmitted from one ...
Ndzalama Maluleke
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Salons 2: Public Folklore, Heritage, and Social Justice

Journal of American Folklore
:The “Social Justice” salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, spotlighted public folklore’s rapidly evolving strategies for crisis intervention, where crises, whether political, epidemiological, or environmental, may be linked ...
Robert Baron, Mary Hufford, Amy Shuman
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Theorizing Rabbinic Folklore: The Miraculous Sleep of the Holy Man

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology
:The miraculous sleep (ATU 766) is a well-known, recurring tale-type observed in Abrahamic folktales since the Second Temple period. This study compares variants of ATU 766 on three levels of analysis: as a popular tale in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ...
Gal Sela
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