Introduction to Chinese Folklore

Author: Tian Xiaoxiu
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: Folklore is a discipline that is widely concerned with in modern advanced countries around the world. From an anthropological perspective, folklore is a branch of cultural anthropology. From the perspective of folk literature, folklore also exhibits the characteristics of the humanities. This is because folklore encompasses a wide range of content. Its research objects broadly involve disciplines such as ethnology, sociology, linguistics, geography, history, law, economics, political science, archaeology, and more. The study of human sciences first began with the research on human anatomy and the study of human origins.