Talk:Folkloristics

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Horrible article. I am no good at doing things Wikipedia style so I was hoping someone could help me. First of all folkloristics is sometimes, even often, known simply as folklore. For Wikipedia it is convenient that we use folkloristics as the main article but we also need something in the disambiguation page for folklore to point here. Another term for folkloristics is ethnology (see: [1]) but the page on ethnology does not reflect this at all and is purely concerned with ethnology in the anthropological sense. There needs to be some kind of reference to this article. Are there any folklorists here at all? I am a graduate student of folkloristics but I would prefer that someone whose native language is English would handle rewrite this article. If no-one can be found here I'll try to find someone to do it.--Óli Gneisti (talk) 04:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

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What a long undifferentiated list. Can anyone select out the most important names, work them into a paragraph and retitle the list "Other folklorists include? Or can a one-line synopsis of the named folklorist's contribution be added to the name? I'm not competent, or I'd do it myself. --Wetman 05:19, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, and doesn't "folklorist" also refer to oral historians and compilers of folktales, not just theorists? I'd expect to see Zora Neale Hurston and Américo Paredes on the list...--Rockero 23:58, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it's very unsatisfactory. 99% of this article is covered by Category:Folklorists. I suggest merging to Mythography and making this a redirect. --Guinnog 00:08, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I fear that the distinction between folklore (the popular repository of folk knowledge, tales, herb lore, etc.) and mythography (literally: "the writing of myths") (myths being the tales that connect a people to their past (and often their future), their lands, and each other--much more frequently an oral tradition than a written one) might be lost if such a merger is carried out. Please comment.--Rockero 10:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

This article is currently a bad article. Someone shouldimprove it, remove the unnecessary biographical information and go into more detail analysis. Mythography is a different discipline. Just because the article is bad now doesn't make it redundant. It needs expansion not removal.leontes 04:55, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

It is redundant because there's already a category for it. I'm removing the list since it already exists in a far superior state, and then the rest of the article can be debated over (it's just a list of "references" now). Radagast83 04:11, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Strong Against. Without question this entry needs to be improved, but Mythography and Folkloreism are two distinct disciplines. Ionesco 16:33, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Noticed the proposal to merge mythography and folkloristics and 2 opposes on this page. Agree it is merging two topics and already too broad, if anything narrow it not broaden into covering mythography as well. I think consensus reached to taking off the merge idea now. Goldenrowley 03:34, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Quality of content

Very inadequate and incomplete. It needs a summary of the history of the discipline which begins in Europe with J. G. Herder and the Grimm brothers (known for fairy tales and dictionary). Here we have two lists limited to North America. Folklore studies have an interesting history in the British Isles and continental Europe and are particularly strong in the smaller nations established from the 19th century on e.g. Scandinavia, eastern Europe. Here they got well supported by the goverments of those countries.----Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 02:02, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Notes

I think the following content should have its own articles.

• List of publication on folkloristics or just a folk literature --75.154.186.99 (talk) 23:18, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

External links

Society

• "American Folklore Society". http://www.afsnet.org. 
• "SIEF - Society for Ethnology and Folklore". http://www.siefhome.org/. 
• "Western States Folklore Society". http://www.westernfolklore.org/. 
• "Folklore Studies Association of Canada". http://www.fl.ulaval.ca/celat/acef/. 
• "Kansas Folklore Society". http://skyways.lib.ks.us/orgs/kfs/. 

Program

• "Indiana University". http://www.indiana.edu/~folklore/. 
• "Florida Folklife Program". http://www.flheritage.com/preservation/folklife/. 
• "Utah State University". http://newenglish.usu.edu/UG-folklore.aspx. 
• "Western Kentucky". http://www.wku.edu/folkstudies/. 

University of:

• "California (Berkeley)". http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/folklore/. 
• "Oregon". http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~flr/. 
• "Wisconsin". http://folklore.wisc.edu. 
• "North Carolina". http://www.unc.edu/depts/folklore/. 
• "California, LA (UCLA)". http://www.wac.ucla.edu/degrees.php. 
• "Memorial University of Newfoundland". http://www.mun.ca/folklore.  (Canada)

• "Interviews with several American folklorists". http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/folklife/sound_folklorists.cfm. 
• "Meertens Ethnology Department Amsterdam". http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=35&Itemid=98&lang=en. 

source

• Bascom, William Russell. (1981). Contributions to Folkloristics. Meerut: Folklore Institute.
• Bendix, Regina (1988), In Search of Authenticity: the Formation of Folklore Studies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press
• Bronner, Simon J., ed. (1982). "Historical Methodology in Folkloristics." Special Section. Western Folklore. 41, no. 1 (January-April).
• Bronner, Simon J. (1986), American Folklore Studies: An Intellectual History. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• Bronner, Simon J. (1986), Grasping Things: Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
• Bronner, Simon J. (1998), Following Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture. Logan: Utah State University Press
• Bronner, Simon J., ed. (2008), The Meaning of Folklore: the Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes. Logan: Utah State University Press
• Brunvand, Jan Harold (1997), The Study of American Folklore. 4th ed. New York:
• Cocchiara, Giuseppe (1981), The History of Folklore in Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Dundes, Alan, ed. (1965), The Study of Folklore. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall
• Dundes, Alan (1975), Analytic Essays in Folklore. The Hague: Mouton
• Dundes, Alan (1978), Essays in Folkloristics . Meerut: Folklore Institute.
• Dundes, Alan, ed. (1999), International Folkloristics. Totowa: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Dundes, Alan. (2002), Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
• Dundes, Alan. (2005). "Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century." Journal of American Folklore 118: 385-408.
• Georges, Robert A., and Michael Owen Jones. (1995). Folkloristics: An Introduction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Howell, Dana Prescott. (1992). The Development of Soviet Folkloristics, 2 vols. New York: Garland.
• Kuutma, K., and Tiiu Jaago. (2005). Studies in Estonian Folkloristics and Ethnology: A Reader and Reflexive History. Tartu: Tartu Ulikooli Kirgjastus.
• Leino, Pentti. (1974). Finnish Folkloristics. Helsinki: Suomaliaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura.
• Stahl, Sandra D. (1988). Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Toelken, Barre (1979). The Dynamics of Folklore. Boston, Mass.: Houghton-Mifflin.
• Zumwalt, Rosemary Levy (1988), American Folklore Scholarship: a Dialogue of Dissent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press