List of folklore and folklore societies
This is a list of folklore and folklore societies . It does not claim to be up-to-date or complete. The British Folklore Society was founded in London in 1878 under the name Folk-Lore Society . The English made-up word "folk-lore" was created by the cultural historian William John Thoms (1803-1885) with reference to Jacob Grimm's German mythology .
Overview
- American Folklore Society
- Bonn Society for Folklore and Cultural Studies
- German Society for Folklore
- Folklore Fellows ( FF Communications )
- The Folk-Lore Society
- The Folklore Society West
- Society for Folklore in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Hamburg Society for Folklore
- Hoosier Folklore Society
- Israel Folklore Society
- Austrian Association for Folklore
- Swiss Society for Folklore
- Société d'ethnologie et de folklore du Center-Ouest
- Société du folklore français
- Virginia Folklore Society
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article “Folklore”, in: Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft , edited by Georg Braungart, Harald Fricke, Klaus Grubmüller, Jan-Dirk Müller, Friedrich Vollhardt, Klaus Weimar, Volume I, p. 610 .
literature
- Claus Leggewie, Erik Meyer (ed.): Global Pop: The book for world music . 2017 ( partial online view )