A good word for indices

Type and motif indices belong to the tradition of folkloristic methodology. Some of us have not been very enthusiastic of this practice of cataloguing haphazard collections of variants available to researchers, because it may create wrong expectations toward type...

Folklorists meet in Innsbruck

The travel guide warning that “in the Alps it rains a lot” came to mind during the week in the beginning of July, when about two hundred folklorists from all parts of the world met in Innsbruck for the 10th Congress of the International Society for Folk...

The governing bodies

There are at least three levels of interest in the training of scholars, namely, the national, the regional and the international one. A few years ago, the Ministry of Education suggested the founding of several coordinating groups of experts for the planning of more...

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