Talk: Folklore

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I took a university class on Folklore....and we didn't define it as just ETHNIC. Instead, we defined it as any set of words, sayings, etc. endemic to a specific group (or something like that!). For example, "blood bank" language. Or to be more specific, language of traveling blood-bank employees. firepink

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Just adding a couple of cents: There are several definitions on folklore, and the process of defining folklore is at the heart of scientific folklore studies (folkloristics). The American folklorist Dan Ben-Amos defined folklore as an artistic expression shared by a group of two or more people. I find it to be a very useful start. Folklore is in my opinion the essential building blocks of our world view, it is our commonly excepted beliefs, phrases and even genres. Tabloids, and even more serious reporting, are folkloric. Personally I think the folklore page needs a rewrite, what is there isn't wrong, it's just very outdated and very incomplete. Perhaps I'll do it myself... later