Paul CowdellJun 14, 2024
This is perhaps a rather niche little article on the history of #folklore and #folkloristics, but it's been so long in the making (for some not great reasons) that I'm inordinately proud to see it out at last. Seriously, its long journey started on Kalevala Day 2013...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/0015587X.2024.2320036
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Show threadCharnock
@paulcowdell @folklore That was an interesting article, in the age of whizzy internet barbed comments and instant access to language (and languages) it's always nice to remember there was a time it was a long and often bizarre road to find works like the Perfumed Garden and the Kalevala. Unsung heroes of folklore indeed.
Jun 14, 2024 at 3:53pmWeb
Show threadPaul CowdellJun 14, 2024
@Printdevil @folklore Thank you so much for reading. I realised, late on in the publication process, that even in this instant and frenzied world our work as folklorists is all the better for those personal engagements and negotiations, which aren't all immediate.
Show threadCharnockJun 14, 2024
@paulcowdell @folklore There is tremendous humanity in folklore and it benefits from the intimacy of those sorts of interactions. You can't understand parables of the human condition with crowdsourced ideas. Sometimes you just need someone to go over a cup of coffee "But that's nonsense, they lived in a forest" or some other blinding flash of the obvious in a translation.