Example sentences for: folklorist

How can you use “folklorist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That he is, indeed, a literary critic and folklorist is demonstrated not only in the generally intelligent and informative Introduction, but in two short appendices, one of which, subtitled “The Jew as American,’ analyzes rather well Philip Roth's novel, Portnoy's Complaint , while the other, titled “The Revival of KLEZmer Music,’ discusses lucidly a contemporary aspect of Yiddish folk music.

  • Because of its long history New Mexico will always be a bountiful reservoir for the serious folklorist.

  • Urban folk legends are invariably ascribed to a "friend" or, better still, a "friend of a friend" (a "FOAF," to use folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand's acronym), who is close enough to stabilize the urban legend but distant enough to escape genuine scrutiny.

  • Although not a trained folklorist, Arnold Rojas writes of the vaquero (cowboy) culture of California, especially in the San Joaquin Valley at the turn of the century and into the first third of the 1900s.

  • Born in northern New Mexico on May 16, 1894 (although some sources give her birth date as 1898), Fabiola Cabeza de Baca became a famous home economist, teacher, folklorist, and writer.


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