“On A Mission”: Preserving Creole Culture One Tweet at a Time. Keith Frank, Zydeco, and the Use of Social Media by Marie Demars

“…Appearing approximately sixty years ago among the Creole community of urban Houston, zydeco is a relatively new musical genre that is however still associated to rurality, folklore and old-fashioned ways. In this unfavorable context, it might seem difficult to link zydeco with modernity or high-profile communication tools and technologies, yet more and more young Creole musicians are bridging the gap by heavily using social media to promote their music as well as their south Louisiana cultural heritage.…”
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«We are not here to entertain you». Sambhaji Bhagat’s voice of presence by Sara Roncaglia

“…Sambhaji Bhagat is the heir of a centuries-old tradition of songs of participation, protest and peace, whose life blood comes from the folklore heritage of Maharashtra. Finding inspiration in such lok shahirs, bards, as Annabhau Sathe and Amar Sheikh, Sambhaji Bhagat is one of the main innovators of the shahir tradition. …”
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Kolmkümmend aastat udmurtide juures käimas. Mida olen õppinud? by Eva Toulouze

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Perspectives on Differentiation: Negotiating Traditional Knowledge on the International Level by Stefan Groth

“…It aims to provide a survey of such perspectives and the links and interdependencies between them using the example of the world Intellectual Property organization’s Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (WIPO’s IGC). It is argued that different socio-political constellations and power relations lead to terminological perspectives of differentiation, i.e. the semantic construction of an external Other in the past that is used to evaluate the present and place oneself in a position of advantage.…”
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Локальная идентификация и самоидентификация жителей севернорусских городов Архангельска и Северодвинска (по фольклорно-этногра-фическим данным)... by Наталья Дранникова

“…A local population survey based on a specially developed questionnaire was conducted to study the local identity of Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk in the Arkhangelsk region from 2000 till 2015. The data on folklore and speech obtained allow us to analyze the distinctive features of Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk citizens’ local identity. …”
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MD Voldemar Sumberg and the Folk Medicine Collection of the Estonian Museum of Hygiene from the 1920s and 1930s by Ave Tupits

“…Based on the documents preserved in several museums and archives in Tartu and Tallinn (the Estonian Health Care Museum, the Estonian State Archives, the Estonian Historical Archives, the Estonian Folklore Archives and the Estonian National Museum), the article will give an overview of the views of the director of the Estonian Museum of Hygiene, Voldemar Sumberg, on the relationship between folk medicine and modern medicine; the data on folk medicine collecting campaigns with Sumberg's involvement in the 1920s; and the fate of the folk medicine records and items collected by the Museum of Hygiene during the 1920s and 1930s, according to the documentation and archival material found so far.…”
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Barn Owl (Tyto alba) by Jason M. Martin, Richard N. Raid, Lyn C. Branch

“…Their ghostly appearance and blood-curdling shriek have led to their incorporation into folklore and myth and have earned these birds a variety of nicknames, including "ghost owl" and "monkey-faced owl." …”
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Políticas sonoras y música popular en el reciente conflicto social peruano (2022-2023) by Mónica Cárdenas Moreno

“…This article analyses the government's use of Peruvian musical folklore and its relevance to the protesting population in the context of the current social conflict. …”
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Contemporary Jokes about Students: The Body of Texts and Their Genetic Relations by Anastasiya Astapova

“…In spite of the fact that so many papers in folklore scholarship have been dedicated to the question of the genesis of the joke as a genre (mainly speculating on its origin from the fairy tale) almost none of them attempts to reach beyond theoretical discussion on the problem. …”
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Mütoloogiline tegelane tšokmor udmurtide traditsioonilises maailmavaates by Galina Glukhova

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Bats of Florida by Holly K. Ober, Martin B. Main, Ginger M. Allen

“…Nocturnal habits, affinity for eerie places, and silent, darting flight have made bats the subjects of a great deal of folklore and superstition through the years. Given their ability to function in the dark when and where humans cannot, it is no wonder that bats have long been associated with the supernatural. …”
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Bats of Florida by Holly K. Ober, Martin B. Main, Ginger M. Allen

“…Nocturnal habits, affinity for eerie places, and silent, darting flight have made bats the subjects of a great deal of folklore and superstition through the years. Given their ability to function in the dark when and where humans cannot, it is no wonder that bats have long been associated with the supernatural. …”
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Barn Owl (Tyto alba) by Jason M. Martin, Richard N. Raid, Lyn C. Branch

“…Their ghostly appearance and blood-curdling shriek have led to their incorporation into folklore and myth and have earned these birds a variety of nicknames, including "ghost owl" and "monkey-faced owl." …”
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Ritual Continuity and “Failed Rituals” in a Winter Masquerade in the Italian Alps by Lia Zola

“…Alpine winter masquerades, also known as carnival masquerades, may be regarded as one of the most complex phenomena within the field of study of cultural anthropology and folklore. In the Italian alpine chain some of them have been brought to a new life two decades ago after a long period of decline; since then, alpine winter masquerades have been the focus of a great interest by cultural anthropologists, theatre performers and other intellectuals. …”
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Capcanele unei întâlniri cu tâlc. Relaţia dintre text şi imagine în cultura română premodernă şi receptarea ei în contemporaneitate by Cristina Bogdan

“…The major directions of our approach concern three aspects: the identification of research sites that might bring into play the intersection between texts, folklore creations and iconographic representations; analysing the relation between the image and the look it is reflected in, according to the socio-cultural context we take into consideration (that of the emergence of the image and today’s one respectively), with a special focus on the faces of Death that are inserted, over the 18th–19th centuries, in the iconography of the worship monuments in Muntenia; sketching a possible research site in danger because of the absence of an exhaustive corpus of images: the relation between the iconographic sequence and the caption that goes with it.…”
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Mass Renormalization in the Nelson Model by Fumio Hiroshima, Susumu Osawa

“…It is shown that for sufficiently small coupling constant α of the model, meff(Λ)/m can be expanded as meff(Λ)/m=1+∑n=1∞an(Λ)α2n. A physical folklore is that an(Λ)=O(logΛ(n-1)) as Λ→∞. It is rigorously shown that 0<limΛ→∞a1(Λ)<C,  C1≤limΛ→∞a2(Λ)/log⁡Λ≤C2 with some constants C, C1, and C2.…”
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The Local Impact of Migratory Legends: The Process and Function of Localisation by Ambrož Kvartič

“…This placement of the folklore material is enabled by the process of the localisation of motifs. …”
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Myth and Immortality in Russian Folktales by Enrique Santos Marinas

“…As Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp already set out in his monograph <i>Theory and History of Folklore</i> (1984), folktales, and in particular fairy tales, could preserve the remnants of myths and rites from very ancient stages of human civilisation, dating back to Prehistoric times themselves. …”
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Ovidiu Papadima – o evocare by Teodor Vârgolici

“…Studying the Romanian folklore, O.P. has declared that: “The way the people are seeing the World is organic Christian”.…”
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Kaasaegse udmurdi pulmatseremoonia eripära ja kultuuriline tähendus by Tatiana Korobova

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