Folklore Studies is an academic discipline concerned with the systematic investigation of traditional folk culture—comprising narratives, performances, material objects, and customs—transmitted largely outside official institutions and particularly within subcultures of modern literate societies.
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Verbal Art as Performance<sup>1</sup>
Richard Bauman · American Anthropologist · 1975 · 1.1K citations · Full text
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Indiana University
Bloomington, United States
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University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, United States
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Pennsylvania State University
State College, United States
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The Folklore Society
London, United Kingdom
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University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, United States
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Northwestern University
Evanston, United States
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University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
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- Journal of American Folklore
JAF · 367 publications · 14.9K citations
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 155 publications · 10.7K citations
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- Western Folklore
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- Folklore
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- Asian Folklore Studies
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Field Methods | Ethnography Online Ethnography Topic Modeling Close Reading Thematic Analysis |
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