biography
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| lived:
| (1885–1976)
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| biography:
| Folklorist, born in Bloomfield, Kentucky, USA. At Indiana University (1921–55), he created a pre-eminent centre for folklore studies, established folklore as an academic discipline, and founded the Folklore Institutes of America. Among his many publications, his major contribution was the seminal Motif-Index of Folk-Literature (6 vols, 1932–6; revised 1955–8), which catalogues all the recurrent subjects, characters, themes etc, in world folklore. |
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