Western Folklore
Encyclopedia
Western Folklore is a quarterly academic journal
for the study of folklore
published by the Western States Folklore Society. It was established in 1942 as the California Folklore Quarterly and obtained its current name in 1947. Except for the most recent 5 years, the full text is available on JSTOR
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Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
for the study of folklore
Folklore
Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...
published by the Western States Folklore Society. It was established in 1942 as the California Folklore Quarterly and obtained its current name in 1947. Except for the most recent 5 years, the full text is available on JSTOR
JSTOR
JSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...
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