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El folklore y sus paradojas

Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS)
Uno de los rasgos más sobresalientes de la historia del folklore en España y otras naciones europeas son sus paradojas. Propuesto primero como ciencia ha llegado a ser claramente rechazado por posteriores ambientes científicos.
Honorio Manuel Velasco Maíllo
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Folklore and Cultural Heritage: Reflecting on Change

Journal of American Folklore
:The article discusses the concepts of “folklore” and “cultural heritage” and their historical development as responses to social transformations. It compares the field of folklore in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the present-day ...
V. Hafstein
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Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability

Journal of American Folklore
:The tourism industry often treats heritage as an objective quality that makes attractions more competitive. This approach would seem to support the sustainability of a culture’s culinary heritage, but it oftentimes ossifies, simplifies, invents, and ...
Lucy M. Long
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‘The Stars Know Where He Is’: World-Making, Wayfaring, and Navigational Theory in Southern African |Xam Forager Folklore

Folklore, 2023
Forager societies have had a profound influence on the natural world as modernity has come to know it, engineering environments over the course of millennia through consistent interventions in the lifeways of the plant and animal species around them ...
Andrew Skinner
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Finding Fairies in ISEBEL: An Investigation of Cross-Cultural Themes in Fairy Folklore

Folklore
In 2023, the Intelligent Search Engine for Belief Legends (ISEBEL) was made available to the public. ISEBEL is a centralized search engine for the Dutch, North-German, Danish, and Icelandic folktale databases, containing the folktales present in these ...
Myrthe Osse
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Taxonomizing Goblins from Folklore to Fiction

Folklore
During the medieval and early modern periods, folkloric goblins were often presented as multifaceted creatures with unclear origins and as nebulous markers of the preternatural.
Matt King
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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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All the World’s a (Neurotypical) Stage: Neurodivergent Folklore, Autistic Masking, and Virtual Spaces for Discussing Autistic Identity

Journal of American Folklore
:In the field of folklore, there has been little attention paid to neurodivergence in relation to community despite the fact that a folkloric lens could productively be applied to aspects of neurodivergent culture(s) and neurodivergent communities.
Allison Stanich
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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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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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