is there a word "folkorist". i read the word in a book about american history.
i can not find the word in dictionary. but the chinese translation shows the meaning : "the expert on folkore". thax for your help.
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folklorist comes from the word folklore. A folklorist is a person who studies the unwritten traditional beliefs, legends, sayings, customs, etc. of a culture and investigates them scientifically.
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It means the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture.
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Yeah, it exists.
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Folklore is unwritten beliefs, sayings, customs, legends etc. A folklorist is someone who studies or knows about these things. Evald Tang Kristensen (1843-1929) was a well know Danish folklorist.
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'FolkLorist'
It refers to someone studying 'folklore',so somehow an expert on it ,that is right.
'Folklore' is everything traditional in a country : customs,dances,sayings,tales etc...
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