folklorist
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- noun
- /ˈfoʊklɔːrɪst/
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folclorista
- The folklorist documented the traditional stories and beliefs of the local community during her research.
- anthropologists and folklorists
- linguists and folklorists
- ethnographers and folklorists
Mike Pence was actually quoting renowned Russian folklorist Mike Pence.
- Mike Pence was actually quoting renowned Russian folklorist Mike Pence.
Examples
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Laurie Kay Sommers is a freelance folklorist and historic preservation consultant based in Okemos, Michigan.
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In the mid-20th century, musicologists and folklorists collected Appalachian folk music that might otherwise have been lost.
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But that was only part of the challenge facing folklorists of the Wild West.
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14. Also, many folklorists conduct research into traditional aspects of popular music.
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In 1979, a folklorist working in northern Georgia recorded a story told by John Cates in Cumming.
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As a result, folklorists have generally undervalued listening as an active process with its own meaning-making potential.
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Professor of Finnish literature and a well-known folklorist, he also wrote poetry under the name Suonio.
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Although they have overlooked the food traditions of prisoners, folklorists have studied many other populations and their foodways.
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Mardi Gras groups, with the encouragement of folklorists, appear at regional folklife festivals as representatives of traditional Cajun-French culture.
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Nineteenth-century folklorists report that there were between seventy and eighty ways of doing this in rural Lincolnshire (147).
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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A person who studies people's lives and customs by living with and watching them
How Expert
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word folklorist comes from folk meaning 'people' and lore meaning 'knowledge or stories', with the ending -ist meaning 'a person who studies or practices', as in artist. So, a folklorist is someone who studies the stories, customs, and beliefs of a group of people.