Episode 15 - FOLKLORE: MORE THAN JUST A WORD
The Folklore Podcast
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The Importance of Folklore in the British Empire
Big nations go through similar processes of formation and self-identification to small ones particularly in their emergence. The compulsion to produce a nationally identifying body of folklore just wasn't so urgent in the senior part of a nation state that already existed as it would be in territory that has spied to national status. But for all that Thomas' national project didn't materialise, I think you can see it reaching some kind of fruition in the volumes of county folklore that were published by the Folklore Society after 1878. And again this is to say nothing of other cultural groups that are less central to an existing nation's self-identity.
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