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