Of course, the answer of the folklorist to this charge against the value of tradition is that the example is not a case of tradition[5] at all.
He is not a folklorist because he loves folklore, but because he sees in it the materials for elucidating the early life of man.
In the meantime, the folklorist has much to do in this direction, and up to the present he has almost entirely ignored or misread the evidence.
The folklorist replaces it among the myths of creation, and then proceeds to analyse and value it.
It is, in short, the neglect of this among other historical facts which has led the folklorist into error of a somewhat magnificent kind.
The folklorist has the most to do to get his results ready, and to explain and secure his position.
Did the people adopt this tale from literature into tradition and keep it alive for five centuries; or did some early and unconscious folklorist adapt it into literature?
It is certain that the appeal will not be made to its fullest extent unless the folklorist makes it clear that it will be answered in a fashion which commands attention.
Now I do not recall these controversies, or lay stress upon what appear to me to be the shortcomings of the historian and folklorist in their relationship to each other, for the purpose of reawakening old antagonisms.
Such examples could be multiplied indefinitely, but no folklorist has properly classified such beliefs and endeavoured to ascertain their place in the science of folklore.
Joyce, who are folklorists as well as historians, and who as we have seen do deal with these records scientifically, the folklorist goes out of his way to reject these records.
Folklorist For four days past have great Chinese New Year Feast been celebrated.
Perhaps the most intelligent folklorist of the Kokop people was Nasyuñweve, who died a few years ago--unfortunately before I had been able to record all the traditions which he knew concerning his ancestors.
Mannhardt's method was more that of the folklorist than the philologist.
The wonder is that this circumstance was not patently visible to the distinguished folklorist who comments upon and accepts his dictum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "folklorist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
