#Folklorists

Ian Groves 🇪🇺🇮🇹

LandscapeIan

I've been reading about 'sin-eaters' in this excellent short book. It was their job to consume food and drink which had been passed over the body of a deceased person,

🌾Chase🌾 aka prairie tooka

PrairieTooka

Campbell is rejected by actual anthropologists and folklorists, and his work is fundamentally reduces the imagination of all human culture to prioritize White Euro narratives, but go off I guess.

Andrew Lipman

AC_Lipman

A little time-wasting game for History Twitter: post the cover(s) of an academic history book (preferably *not* a brand-new one) you think more people should know about. I'll get things

adrian de leon

aadeleon

Your Filipino American History Month ain't shit if you ain't here for the liberation of Indigenous Peoples Your Filipino American History Month ain't shit if your "decolonization" is a clothing

Dr Francis Young

DrFrancisYoung

Why does #OakAppleDay matter? Personally, it isn't the political aspect that interest me but the extraordinary folkloric resonances. It's a sort of feast day of English folklore, a festival for

Seanan McGuire

seananmcguire

Hey, so, did y'all know I'm a folklorist? Not currently working in the field, did not actually finish my degree (ran out of money), but I went to school to

Stan Dupp

SDupp

Thread Please use the #coronarhyme if you join in or retweet. In 100 years time children in playgrounds could be singing rhymes, bouncing balls against a wall, skipping or

Genevieve Adeline

Book_Folk

THREAD #FolkloreThursdayJust finished a dissertation about how the history of folklore & folk music is linked to nationalism, fascism and racism and when I logged on to twitter again one

Kate Cooper

kateantiquity

Our Easter tree this year is made from my ‘social distancing stick’ instead of the traditional pussy willow (which we couldn’t find). As always my girls wanted to know ‘why

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

RobertBohan

Thread: Halloween, as the world knows it, is an Irish invention from ancient Irish-Celtic roots. It’s correct name is Samhain & marks the end of the Harvest. It was culturally

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

RobertBohan

Thread: Halloween, as the world knows it, is an Irish invention from ancient Hiberno-Celtic roots. It’s correct name is Samhain & marks the end of the Harvest. It was culturally

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨

Ciaraioch

Little series of cartoon #MiniMná for November, starting with Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, civil & human rights activist, shot by paramilitaries, slapped the Home Secretary when he claimed British soldiers on

Thomas Stockinger

thstockinger

All right. It's Friday, day 13 of #LeibnizHomeOffice, I have a nice cup of tea and Brahms in my earphones, and could it be that last week I mentioned archbishops