Other twentieth-century writers and folklorists provided correctives to these distorted images, however. |
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For folklorists generally, folk beliefs and practices were regarded as the fragmentary and often obscure remnants of older systems. |
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Quite frankly, the explanations from natural historians, folklorists and fossil experts are as strange as Kipling's fictional accounts. |
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He advises folklorists to look back to ancient literature and classicists to look forward to folklore methods. |
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One final matter is worth mentioning, and this is the acid comments about folklore and folklorists in Alice's diaries. |
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According to folklorists, the play in Thrissur is almost a century old. |
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Moreover, few authors were trained folklorists and even fewer maintained a critical historical methodology. |
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Sources for these renditions include books by folklorists and commercial recordings by shanty revival performers. |
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The advent of audio recording technology provided folklorists with a revolutionary tool to preserve vanishing musical forms. |
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By the turn into the 20th century the number and sophistication of folklore studies and folklorists had grown both in Europe and North America. |
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The symbolism of the maypole has been continuously debated by folklorists for centuries, although no definitive answer has been found. |
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Following the Second World War, folklorists began to articulate a more holistic approach toward their subject matter. |
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This is as close as folklorists can come to observing the transmission and social function of this folk knowledge before the spread of literacy during the 19th century. |
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Moving forward into the 20th century, in tandem with new thinking in the social sciences, folklorists also revised and expanded their concept of the folk group. |
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Of interest to folklorists are their physical form, their method of manufacture or construction, their pattern of use as well as the procurement of the raw materials. |
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Conceptualizing folklore as behavior redefined the job of folklorists. |
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Folklorists divide customs into several different categories. |
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Folklorists frequently approach cinema, especially popular cinema, as an artistic text which has some kind of superorganic existence outside of the culture which produces it. |
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