I called Alan Dundes, a renowned folklorist, to ask about it. From Wordnik.com. [Write Louder So Editors Can Hear | PopPolitics.com] Reference
Mark Klempner is a folklorist, historian, and social commentator. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Klempner: A Conversation with Tracy Kidder About Mountains Beyond Mountains] Reference
"Anybody could use the book," explained one woman to a folklorist. From Wordnik.com. [Books on Magic] Reference
The folklorist came up with a LAANYE and a small notebook and stiil. From Wordnik.com. [Acorna's Search]
And he said, "You know, you're not a historian, you're a folklorist.". From Wordnik.com. [Old Mines Music] Reference
In Georgia Appalachia, an odd stranger calls on folklorist Fever Devilin. From Wordnik.com. [The Drifter’s Wheel-Phillip DePoy « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews] Reference
Even to Cohen, a folklorist, filmmaker and musician, it sounded a bit arcane. From Wordnik.com. [The Roots Of Rock] Reference
Lomax eventually became both a well-known folklorist and a New Deal intellectual. From Wordnik.com. [The Catcher of Songs] Reference
Gordon McCulloch is a folklorist, folksinger and occasional writer of political songs. From Wordnik.com. [Them and Us] Reference
He was assigned to work at the Library of Congress with musical folklorist Alan Lomax. From Wordnik.com. [Folk Legend Pete Seeger Looks Back] Reference
Adrienne Mayor is a classical folklorist specializing in legends about natural history. From Wordnik.com. [A Time of Giants and Monsters] Reference
In addition to being a busy young wife and mother, Recha worked as a writer and folklorist. From Wordnik.com. [Recha Freier.] Reference
Dr. Ferris has received recognition as an internationally renowned folklorist and anthropologist. From Wordnik.com. [Ferris To Chair National Endowment For The Humanities] Reference
"I am a folklorist," he said at last, when the discussion of philosophy ended in mutual agreement. From Wordnik.com. [The Robin And The Kestrel]
The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924): parson, squire, hymn writer, antiquarian, and folklorist. From Wordnik.com. [The Moor]
Jamaica's premier folklorist, poet, entertainer and comedienne was born in Kingston on September 7, 1919. From Wordnik.com. [August 29th Poetic Ticker Clicking] Reference
The program director of the new Sunday school is Motl Gordon, folklorist and teacher of Yiddish language. From Wordnik.com. [a nes (miracle) | Jewschool] Reference
But folklorist Adrienne Mayor is making a career of linking paleontology to the study of humanity's past. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Legendary Bones] Reference
Death of Ziya Gökalp (b. 1875), author famed for his work as a sociologist, philosopher, and folklorist. From Wordnik.com. [1924-28] Reference
Then there's Le Grand Duc, a portly gourmand who's somehow mixed up with them, ostensibly as a folklorist. From Wordnik.com. [CARAVAN TO VACCARES by Alistair MacLean (Fawcett Crest 1971)] Reference
Der program-direktor funem nayem zuntik-shul iz Motl Gordon, folklorist un lerer fun der yidisher shprakh. From Wordnik.com. [a nes (miracle) | Jewschool] Reference
When folklorist Hamish Henderson asked Mary Brookbank how much of the song came from mill workers she replied. From Wordnik.com. [The Jute Mill Song] Reference
Contributors include folklorist Carol Burke, economist Ellen Frank, journalism professor Ben Bagdikian, and the Rev. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Beacon Press's blog.] Reference
I'm also quite fond of Spence's Mysteries of Britain and kindred works; he was a tireless folklorist and popularizer. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
It includes Bill Ivey, the folklorist and former NEA head, as well as some tech experts to review the NARA transition. From Wordnik.com. [History in the transition] Reference
You know, she was a folklorist and she wrote folk plays and -- and poetry and collected -- and collectives of materials. From Wordnik.com. [Remember Me to Harlem] Reference
Adrienne Mayor, a classical folklorist, is writing a book about discoveries of prehistoric fossils in classical antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [People Illustrated] Reference
When I was collecting folk music in Scotland, one of the women who performed for me introduced me to another American folklorist. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
TERMS AND NOTES: Phil Garland is a NZ folksinger, folklorist and song collector who has recorded many albums for Kiwi-Pacific Records. From Wordnik.com. [Hunger in the Air] Reference
The quote was from Joseph Campbell, the American mythologist and folklorist who had taught at Harvard when Pierce was a student there. From Wordnik.com. [Cat & Mouse]
As a popular performer-folklorist, she would describe the background of her selections and then sing them in a simple, unaccompanied style. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Rubin.] Reference
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