#folkloristics
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #folkloristics from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-13 18:02 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
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Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-13 18:02 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 13 public posts (spanning ~38649 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 09:00
Languages: English (12) · American English (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.2
Top of the latest posts
I've pinned and reboosted my #introduction, but I thought I'd have another bash round the potted summary of hashtags as I try to reconnect with stuff lost in the past few days. #folklore is pretty much the most important to me - I'm an #aca
An excellent and wonderful colleague (she's not on here, but I'll namecheck her because her stuff's great - Tina Paphitis) has just sent the link to this Marburg Journal of Religion special issue on 'Fieldwork in Folkloristics and the Study
Elias Lönnrot, the folklorist, the traveler, the physician, the student, the ethnologist, the editor, and finally the rune singer, did birth one longer Kalevala, one which was as indebted to his creative process as it was to ancient songs a
What “folkloristics” means
WikipediaFolklore studies is the academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currency in the 1950s to distinguish the academic study of traditional culture from the folklore artifacts themselves. It became established as a field across both Europe and North America, coordinating with Volkskunde (German), folkeminner (Norwegian), and folkminnen (Swedish), among others.
“Folklore studies” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#folkloristics across platforms
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