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folklorist

American  
[fohk-lawr-ist] / ˈfoʊkˌlɔr ɪst /

noun

  1. a student of or expert in folklore, either focused on a particular culture or as part of anthropology or ethnographic study in general.


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The eminent folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand traced them at least as far back as the 1970s, when immigrants from Southeast Asia reached these shores.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2024

This is a point of view that’s echoed in food historian and folklorist Lucy Long’s more academic writing on the subject.

From Salon Nov. 12, 2023

In Appalachia, “it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the grandeur of nature because of the intense saturation of natural landscape,” says renowned folklorist Carl Lindahl of the University of Houston.

From National Geographic Oct. 13, 2023

Or the way the folklorist Dr. Kern Jackson gazes with affection at a videotaped interview with the descendant Martha West-Davis, as she recounts how Africatown got its name.

From New York Times Oct. 20, 2022

Kennedy, a folklorist at heart, apparently wanted to put across the most dramatic story possible, and therefore included not only his own anti-Klan activities but those of another man, code-named John Brown.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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