folkloristiky
Folkloristika, or folkloristics, is the academic study of folklore—the traditional beliefs, narratives, practices, and expressions that communities transmit across generations. The field examines how people make meaning through stories, songs, rituals, crafts, and other cultural forms, and how these forms evolve in different social and historical contexts. It covers oral literature such as folktales, myths, legends, proverbs, and ballads; customary folklore including rites and festivals; and, in many traditions, material culture and digital folklore.
Methodologically, folkloristics relies on fieldwork and participant observation, interviews, and the collection of lore in archives.
Historically, folkloristics emerged in the 19th century in Europe alongside Romantic nationalism and philology. It was
Contemporary folkloristics addresses living folklore in communities and digital environments, focusing on transmission, variation, canon formation,