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| Folklore (journal) | |
|---|---|
| Title | Folklore |
| Discipline | Folklore studies |
| Abbreviation | Folklore |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis for the Folklore Society |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1899–present |
| Issn | 0015-587X |
Folklore (journal) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published for the Folklore Society that publishes research on traditional expressive culture, vernacular belief, and oral literature. Founded in the late Victorian period and continuing into the contemporary era, the journal has appeared alongside major scholarly and cultural institutions across the United Kingdom and beyond. Contributors and readers have included scholars affiliated with universities, museums, and learned societies who engage with fieldwork, archival study, and interdisciplinary theory.
The journal was established during a period of institutional consolidation that included the formation of the Folklore Society (Great Britain), connections with the British Museum, and dialogues with contemporaneous organizations such as the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and the Society of Antiquaries of London. Early editorial networks intersected with figures connected to the Victorian era, the British Empire, and metropolitan salons where antiquarianism and colonial ethnography overlapped. Throughout the twentieth century Folklore published work that engaged with debates stimulated by institutions including the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the British Academy, and the School of Oriental and African Studies. Editorial directions reflected shifts driven by twentieth-century intellectual movements associated with scholars at the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, and the London School of Economics. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries the journal responded to methodological turns from scholars linked to the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
Folklore publishes articles, review essays, and notes on subjects ranging from customary ritual to vernacular narrative, connecting work produced at universities such as Harvard University, Yale University, University of Edinburgh, and University College London with fieldwork from regions including Ireland, Scotland, Wales, India, Nigeria, and Jamaica. The journal has carried scholarship concerning oral historiography examined alongside archival collections at the Bodleian Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the Public Record Office (UK). Topics have included comparative studies that reference myth collections compiled by scholars associated with the Eighteenth-Century Collections Online era, performance-focused research linked to venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and the Edinburgh Festival, and studies of belief systems with connections to archives at the Vatican Library and museums like the Victoria and Albert Museum. Contributors have compared folk narratives to literary works housed in collections at the British Library, traced cross-cultural motifs with reference to classification schemes developed by scholars affiliated with the Finnish Literature Society, and examined material culture preserved by institutions such as the Ashmolean Museum.
The journal is published quarterly by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Folklore Society (Great Britain). Editorial boards have featured academics from departments at University of Manchester, University of Glasgow, University of Leeds, University of Birmingham, and international scholars connected to Columbia University, University of Toronto, and the Australian National University. The editor-in-chief role has historically rotated among established figures belonging to learned societies such as the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Submissions undergo peer review consistent with standards practiced by publishers like Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, and the journal adheres to ethical guidelines promoted by organizations like the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Folklore is indexed in major scholarly services including those operated by entities comparable to EBSCO, ProQuest, and indexing platforms analogous to the Web of Science and Scopus. The journal’s abstracts and citations are incorporated into bibliographic databases used by libraries at institutions such as the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Library, and the Library of Congress. Its inclusion in abstracting services has aided discoverability among researchers connected to centers like the Folklore Institute (Indiana University) and consortia that include the HathiTrust digital library.
Across its long run the journal has published landmark articles that engaged debates with scholars associated with the Vienna School, the Frankfurt School, and proponents of structural analysis from institutions like the École Normale Supérieure. Special issues have centered on themes convened by guest editors from centers such as the Centre for Contemporary Legend, the Institute of Folklore (University of Tartu), and national programs sponsored by bodies such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Noteworthy contributions have dialogued with scholarship by figures affiliated with the Folklore Fellows', comparative motif cataloguing pioneered in Finland, and structuralist readings that intersect with works held in archives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The journal has been influential within networks connecting the Folklore Society (Great Britain), university departments at University of California, Los Angeles, Indiana University Bloomington, and University of Helsinki, and cultural heritage bodies including the National Trust (United Kingdom). It has shaped curricula and research agendas reflected in monographs published by presses such as Routledge and Bloomsbury, and informed exhibitions organized by museums like the National Museum of Scotland and the Museum of London. Debates fostered by the journal have intersected with policy discussions involving national cultural bodies analogous to the British Council, and with international scholarly exchanges convened at conferences such as meetings of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research and the American Folklore Society.
Category:Folklore studies journals