Folklore is the body of verbal expressive culture, including tales, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs current among a particular population, comprising the oral tradition of that culture, subculture, or group. The academic and usually ethnographic study of folklore is known as folkloristics.

History

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The concept of folklore developed as part of the 19th century ideology of romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological goals; only in the 20th century did ethnographers begin to attempt to record folklore without overt political goals. The Brothers Grimm, Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm, collected orally transmitted German tales and published the first series as Kinder- und Hausmärchen ("Children's and Household Tales") in 1812.

The term was coined in 1846 by an Englishman, William Thoms, who wanted to use an Anglo-Saxon term for what was then called "popular antiquities." Johann Gottfried von Herder first advocated the deliberate recording and preservation of folklore to document the authentic spirit, tradition, and identity of the German people; the belief that there can be such authenticity is one of the tenets of the romantic nationalism which Herder developed. The definition most widely accepted by current scholars of the field is "artistic communication in small groups," coined by Dan Ben-Amos a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and the term, and the associated field of study, now include non-verbal art forms and customary practices.

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@EJXD2 @superterrific At least I have the Brothers Grimm. Comes in handy when explaining my folklore fetish.
superfecta (superfecta) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:52:13 -0000
@EJXD2 @superterrific At least I have the Brothers Grimm. Comes in handy when explaining my folklore fetish.
#ticoqueserespeta llama "nicas regalaos" a los guanacastecos, ignorando el aporte cultural d esa región al folklore del país, si o no?
negrititico (Christopher Smith) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:39:14 -0000
#ticoqueserespeta llama "nicas regalaos" a los guanacastecos, ignorando el aporte cultural d esa región al folklore del país, si o no?
#HEALTH The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experienc.. http://htxt.it/l/juNAsl
ihbsonline_com (IHBSOnline.com) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:35:14 -0000
#HEALTH The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experienc.. http://htxt.it/l/juNAsl
Link: Just ordered Digital Folklore - nice bit of Christmas reading! http://tumblr.com/xlc4lbjh9
earthorbit (Esther Yarnold) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:29:22 -0000
Link: Just ordered Digital Folklore - nice bit of Christmas reading! http://tumblr.com/xlc4lbjh9
in the library doing folklore. fml. no college tomorrow so i think me and me little mate wine are gonna chill later.
theholytape (stevenreilly) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:04:41 -0000
in the library doing folklore. fml. no college tomorrow so i think me and me little mate wine are gonna chill later.
El texto es del músico y escritor chileno Patricio Manns y la música es de Roberto Márquez, de la agrupación de folklore andino, Illapu.
robot2xl (Robot-2XL) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:51:42 -0000
El texto es del músico y escritor chileno Patricio Manns y la música es de Roberto Márquez, de la agrupación de folklore andino, Illapu.

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