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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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As a musician and folklorist, Stephen Wade has a personal stake in this music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

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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