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Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as tales, legends, proverbs, poems, and jokes. This also includes material culture, such as traditional building styles common to the group. Folklore also encompasses customary lore, taking actions for folk beliefs…

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Origin and development of folklore studies

Definition of "folk"

Folklore genres

Folklore performance in context

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Folklore

Nodes226
Edges225
Triples254
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.00885
Components1

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Folklore

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related to Origin and development of folklore studies · 26
Folklore → After, America, American, Brothers Grimm, By, Estonia, Europe, European, Finland, Franz Boas, German, Germans, Hausmärchen, Herder, Herder's, Hungary, Its, Johann Gottfried, Kinder, Napoleonic France
related to Verbal tradition · 24
Folklore → Aarne, An, Another, Antti Aarne, As, By, Crucial, English, European, Farm, For, Geographic Method, Historic, In, It, Old MacDonald Had, Songs, Stith Thompson, The, This
related to Customs · 22
Folklore → Carnival, Cologne, Customary, DC, Each, Folklorists, Happy Birthday, It, Mall, Mardi Gras, Musical, New Orleans, New Year's, Occupational, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Thanksgiving, The, This, Together, Walking
related to Backstory · 19
Folklore → Alan Dundes, American Folklore Society, Before, Conceptualizing, Context, Dan Ben-Amos, Following, Geographic Method, Given, In, One, Richard Dorson, Second World War, Text, Texture, The Historic, They, This, Turks
related to Childlore and games · 16
Folklore → Childlore, Children, Children's, Children's Games, For, Here, However, Iona, It, Of, Old McDonald's, Or, Peter Opie, Playground, Street, This
related to Material culture · 16
Folklore → All, Christmas, Folklorists, For, Handmade, In Europe, Industrial Revolution, Just, Many, Most, Of, The, There, These, They, While
related to Toelken's conservative-dynamic continuum · 13
Folklore → As, Barre Toelken, But, He, If, In, Joking, No, Once, Over, Sometimes, The, They
related to Folklore performance in context · 11
Folklore → Abrahams, American, As, Both, It, Lacking, Performance, Roger, These, This, Without
related to In the electronic age · 11
Folklore → Folklorists, It, Jokes, New, Snow White, The, These, They, UGC, Yeh, YouTube
related to overview · 11
Folklore → American, As, Englishman William Thoms, Folk, In, It, Old English, The, These, This, When Thoms

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folk artifacts lore group performance social also traditional verbal culture audience within cultural material one games context folklorists objects just

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Folkloreis abody of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people0.90text
Folkloreis afunction of shared identity within a common social group.Having identified folk artifacts0.90text
Folkloreis anaturally occurring and necessary component of any social group0.90text
Folkloreis apedagogic device which reinforces morals and values and builds wit.Folklore is a means of applying social pressure and exercising social control0.90text
Folkloreis afunction of shared identity within any social group.This folklore can include jokes0.90text
talesinstance ofThis includes oral traditions0.80text
legendsinstance ofThis includes oral traditions0.80text
proverbsinstance ofThis includes oral traditions0.80text
poemsinstance ofThis includes oral traditions0.80text
and jokesinstance ofThis includes oral traditions0.80text
festivalsinstance ofand the forms and rituals of celebrations0.80text
weddingsinstance ofand the forms and rituals of celebrations0.80text

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