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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Example Sentences

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

A low-riding shuffle beat isn’t the Cuban-born pianist, composer and folklorist David Virelles’s most common environment.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2023

Even legendary folklorist Zora Neale Hurston’s 1931 text “Barracoon,” capturing the oral testimony of the long-lived survivor Cudjo Lewis, couldn’t get published until 2018.

From Los Angeles 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