folklorist

[fohk-lawr-ist]

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.

Example Sentences

When folklorist Taylor Burby was researching cacao ceremonies for her recent graduate thesis, she found that more 89% of the 118 participants she interviewed said they like to consume cacao because it is a legal, more accessible plant medicine.

From Los Angeles Times

Hurley, born in Pennsylvania, honed his cracked perspective on bluegrass, blues and folk in the Greenwich Village folk scene in New York in the ‘60s, after producer and folklorist Fred Ramsey picked him up on a hitchiking ramble. He released his debut album, 1964’s “First Songs,” on Folkways, the acclaimed home of Woody Guthrie and curator Harry Smith’s “Anthology of American Folk Music.”

From Los Angeles Times

When folklorist Taylor Burby was researching cacao ceremonies for her recent graduate thesis, she found that more than 89% of the 118 participants she interviewed said they like to consume cacao because it is a legal, more accessible plant medicine.

From Los Angeles Times

Burby, the folklorist, once heard it described as “the grandmother that still has sex, rather than the grandma who is over and done and retired.”

From Los Angeles Times

Folklorist Anne Marie Lagram - herself a "strong believer" - also previously told BBC News that theories behind "unlucky 13" include the number of people present at the Last Supper or the number of witches to make a coven.

From BBC