folkloric
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It is, in part, a consideration of how historians could attempt to treat folkloric knowledge as equivalently valuable to documentary evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Croatian band Lelek also wore face paint, with symbols representing the resistance of Catholic women during the Ottoman Empire, a topic they addressed with haunting folkloric harmonies on their song Andromeda.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
Their authors were seldom scholars; more often they were nonprofessional writers and editors whose volunteer contributions ranged from family snapshots to gravestone photographs, fragmented town histories, folkloric anecdotes and tall tales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The work is a "very personal" painting, in which Kahlo "merges folkloric motifs from Mexican culture with European surrealism," Anna Di Stasi, the head of Latin American art at Sotheby's, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
“And one student is doing a folkloric dance, that type of thing. Acts Posada might enjoy if he was alive.”
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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