| He advises folklorists to look back to ancient literature and classicists to look forward to folklore methods. |
| The advent of audio recording technology provided folklorists with a revolutionary tool to preserve vanishing musical forms. |
| By the turn into the 20th century the number and sophistication of folklore studies and folklorists had grown both in Europe and North America. |
| Following the Second World War, folklorists began to articulate a more holistic approach toward their subject matter. |
| For folklorists generally, folk beliefs and practices were regarded as the fragmentary and often obscure remnants of older systems. |
| The symbolism of the maypole has been continuously debated by folklorists for centuries, although no definitive answer has been found. |
