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Folklore Journals
Complete volumes of the founding periodicals of folklore science — the journals where the discipline argued itself into existence, article by article, from the 1880s onward.
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Folk-Lore — Volume 1 (1890)The complete first volume (1890) of Folk-Lore, the Folklore Society's flagship quarterly, incorporating the Archaeological Review and the Folk-Lore Journal — the journal's founding year in full: articles, reports, correspondence, reviews, society proceedings, bibliography, and index.The Journal of American Folklore — Volume 1 (1888)The complete founding volume of the American Folk-Lore Society's journal — three quarterly numbers from 1888, edited by William Wells Newell with Franz Boas among the founding editors: Newell's charter statement of purpose, plus first-run fieldwork from Boas, Alice Fletcher, James Mooney, Horatio Hale, J. Owen Dorsey, Alcée Fortier, and others, complete with the society's proceedings, notes and queries, and index.