Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore publishes original academic studies in folklore studies, comparative mythological research, cultural anthropology and related fields.

December 14, 2008 3:15 PM

Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore publishes original academic studies in folklore studies, comparative mythological research, cultural anthropology and related fields. Previously.
posted by pita (4 comments total)

But not one report of any folk theory explaining why all things scholarly are cursed with poor web aesthetics.
posted by TwelveTwo at 3:47 PM on December 14, 2008

This looks like half a post -- did you mean to include some interesting articles here?
posted by empath at 9:12 PM on December 14, 2008

The articles are interesting, but damn that's an annoying screen transition. I mean who the hell uses a screen dissolve in this day and aage?
posted by happyroach at 1:53 PM on December 15, 2008

There's some good stuff buried under the transitions, with that special frisson of weird and/or secret happenings retold in academic journalese: "The revenant can appear also partially: he just peeps into a room or thrusts in his hand so that one can guess the presence of the whole of him. But in some legends the dead is visible only as a body part (e.g. a sawing arm (ERA II 70, 316 (5) Rakvere))." A sawing arm! (Maybe this is only spooky to me because of early Lovecraft influence, with his panicked professors footnoting unspeakable rugose things.)

Winning the award for extremely precise topic: a phenomenological analysis of sharing apartments in postwar Sweden.

(Also, cute bunny favicon -- not what one expects for a journal's site.)
posted by finnb at 2:46 AM on December 16, 2008