Yes, it's a real discipline!
Folklore: It's not just for peasants anymore.
Journal created:
on 25 April 2006 (#10104598)
Updated:
on 6 April 2012
Name:
Folkloristics
Membership:
Open
Posting Access:
All Members , Moderated
Description:
A community for those with an academic interest in folklore
Did you watch the recent Brothers Grimm movie and find yourself yelling tale-type and motif numbers at the screen? (That and a lot of vodka is the only way to watch that movie...)
Do you want to throw rocks at people who talk about the myth of the Kentucky Fried Rat?
Do you sometimes wonder whether Alan Dundes or Joseph Campbell would win in a fight?
Do you know the difference between a Wellerism and a Spoonerism?
Are you excited by reception theory?
Can you explain the Finnish Method?
Do you think the "We should change the name of the discipline!" people and the "That would kill folklore!" people should settle it by jello wrestling?
Can you finish this sentence?: A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar...
At least 5 different ways?
Do you wish Wolfgang Mieder could be your grandpa?
Have you ever written a paper on drinking games?
Do you wish you could get drunk with Juha Pentikainen at conferences? (Next time we meet is perhaps in different context. *splat!*)
Do you know who coined the term folklore and in what year?
Can you name half a dozen Finns?
Could you, in a pinch, apply Oral Formulaic Theory to the stylin's of Snoop Dog?
If you answered yes to any of the above, or really if you have any idea what any of the above meant, this community is for you. This is a community for the academic discussion of folklore (Folkloristics:Folklore::Linguistics:Language) If you're studying folklore, working in folklore, looking to get into folklore, or just generally interested in thinking about folklore in a critical way, come on in, the water is fine.
I'm
euryale000 and I'll be your mod today. Play nice, etc., etc.
Link to a page full of links to folklore resources that you might be interested in.
Other LJ communities you might care to check out:
celticastudica Celtic studies focused on the Iron Age.
culture_studies Cultural studies across disciplines.
fanthropology Fanthropology - The Study of Fandom.
folklore More general folklore discussion.
medievalstudies Academic medievalists.
mythology General discussion about myths (legends, tales)
Do you want to throw rocks at people who talk about the myth of the Kentucky Fried Rat?
Do you sometimes wonder whether Alan Dundes or Joseph Campbell would win in a fight?
Do you know the difference between a Wellerism and a Spoonerism?
Are you excited by reception theory?
Can you explain the Finnish Method?
Do you think the "We should change the name of the discipline!" people and the "That would kill folklore!" people should settle it by jello wrestling?
Can you finish this sentence?: A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar...
At least 5 different ways?
Do you wish Wolfgang Mieder could be your grandpa?
Have you ever written a paper on drinking games?
Do you wish you could get drunk with Juha Pentikainen at conferences? (Next time we meet is perhaps in different context. *splat!*)
Do you know who coined the term folklore and in what year?
Can you name half a dozen Finns?
Could you, in a pinch, apply Oral Formulaic Theory to the stylin's of Snoop Dog?
If you answered yes to any of the above, or really if you have any idea what any of the above meant, this community is for you. This is a community for the academic discussion of folklore (Folkloristics:Folklore::Linguistics:Language) If you're studying folklore, working in folklore, looking to get into folklore, or just generally interested in thinking about folklore in a critical way, come on in, the water is fine.
I'm
euryale000 and I'll be your mod today. Play nice, etc., etc. Link to a page full of links to folklore resources that you might be interested in.
Other LJ communities you might care to check out:
celticastudica Celtic studies focused on the Iron Age.culture_studies Cultural studies across disciplines.fanthropology Fanthropology - The Study of Fandom.folklore More general folklore discussion.medievalstudies Academic medievalists.mythology General discussion about myths (legends, tales) academia, afanas'ev, alan dundes, albert lord, allomotifs, american folklore society, aphorisms, archetecture, ballads, barbara kirshenblatt-gimblett, bengt holbek, blason populaire, body art, cantometrics, charlie doyle, contagious magic, costume, culture studies, customs, dance, dites, droodles, elephant jokes, elias lonrot, eliott oring, epic, ethnography, fairy tales, felix oinas, festival, folk dance, folklife, folklore, folklore fellows, folkloristics, folksongs, folkspeech, folktales, foodways, games, gesture, grad school, hairstyle, heroes, historic-geographic method, homeopathic magic, indiana university, interdisciplinary studies, jack santino, james frazer, john lindow, jokes, kaarle krohn, legends, memetics, memorial university newfoundland, metaphor, monogenisis and diffusion, motifemes, motifs, multiple existence and variation, mythology, national character, oicotypes, onomastics, oral formulaic theory, paremiology, performance theory, poetry, polygenisis, pop culture, proverbs, psychoanalytic theory, reception theory, regina bendix, richard bauman, riddles, rites of passage, roger abrahams, roma chatterji, rosemary levy-zumwalt, semiotics, sief, situational puzzles, slang, solar mythology, stith thompson, superstitions, symbolism, sympathetic magic, tale types, tales, tatoos, tricksters, uc berkeley, unilinear evolutionary theory, university college dublin, university of goettingen, university of helsinki, university of iceland, university of missouri, university of oregon, university of turku, urban legends, valdimar hafstein, western states folklore society, william bascom, wolfgang mieder, worldview
