Folkloristics
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Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore such as fairy tales and folk mythology in oral or non-literary traditions. It makes use of such methods as the Aarne-Thompson classification system or the morphology devised for Russian tales by Vladimir Propp.
Scholars specializing in folkloristics are known as folklorists or mythologists. Some scholars include :
- Antti Aarne
- Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev
- Walter Anderson
- Johannes Bolte
- Ben Botkin
- Jan Harold Brunvand
- Thomas Bulfinch
- John Francis Campbell
- Thomas Crofton Croker
- Jeremiah Curtin
- J. Frank Dobie
- Richard Dorson
- Alan Dundes
- Arnold van Gennep
- Glen Grant
- Archie Green
- Brothers Grimm
- Edith Hamilton
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Douglas Hyde
- Alan Jabbour
- Thomas Keightley
- Julius Krohn
- Kaarle Krohn
- Andrew Lang
- Gershon Legman
- Isidor Levin
- Alan Lomax
- John Lomax
- Elias Lönnrot
- Albert Lord
- F. Max Müller
- Alfred Nutt
- Axel Olrik
- Américo Paredes
- Charles Perrault
- Giuseppe Pitrè
- Vladimir Propp
- Kurt Ranke
- Ralph Rinzler
- Yuri Sokolov
- Carl von Sydow
- Archer Taylor
- Stith Thompson
- Jane Wilde, Lady Wilde
- Don Yoder
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Literature on the subject of folkloristics
- Aarne, Antti (1961). "The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography." ed. S. Thompson, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, Helsinki
- Dundes, Alan, ed. (1965). The Study of Folklore. Prentice Hall.
- Dundes, Alan, ed. (1999). International Folkloristics. Rowman & Littlefield.
- von Brednich, Rolf W. et al (2000)., Enzyklopädie des Märchens: Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin - New York
- Thompson, Stith (1946). The Folktale, The Dryden Press, New York
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External Links
- American Folklore Society (http://www.afsnet.org)
- Western States Folklore Society (http://www.westernfolklore.org/)
- Folklore Studies Association of Canada (http://www.fl.ulaval.ca/celat/acef/)
- Indiana University's Folklore Program (http://www.indiana.edu/~folklore/)
- UC Berkeley's Folklore Program (http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/folklore/)
- Memorial University of Newfoundland's Folklore Program (http://www.mun.ca/folklore)
- Western Kentucky's Folklore Program (http://www.wku.edu/folkstudies/)
- Utah State's Folklore Program (http://english.usu.edu/Document/index.asp?Parent=563)
- University of Oregon's Folklore Program (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~flr/)
- UNC's Folklore Program (http://www.unc.edu/depts/folklore/)
- UCLA's World Arts and Cultures Program (http://www.wac.ucla.edu/degrees.php)et:Folkloristika
