Folklore Methodology - 9780292724327

Folklore MethodologyFormulated by Julius Krohn and Expanded by Nordic Researchers\nAuthor(s): Kaarle Krohn, Roger L. Welsch\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292724327, 978-0292724327\nSynopsis\nKaarle Krohn's Folklore Methodology was the first systematic attempt to state a method of studying folkloristic materials. For centuries scholars had collected folkloristic texts and had commented on them, but they had not tried to formulate a method of investigating folklore. \n\nFolklore Methodology became the handbook for the great Finnish School of folklore research. It provided for its students a guide to the geographical research of traditional materials, a radical departure from the literary scholarship that had dominated folklore studies. \n\n Krohn's book explores the causes and modes of folklore diffusion, development, and destruction; it outlines the influences that cause change in folklore; it .