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Folklore: The body of myths, legends, and traditional beliefs of a people or the study of those beliefs. ^[e]

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Parent topics

• Anthropology [r]: The holistic study of humankind; from the Greek words anthropos ("human") and logia ("study"). ^[e]

Subtopics

• Fairy tale [r]: A story with magical or supernatural elements, in either oral tradition or written literature. ^[e]
• Folk music [r]: A kind of popular music which is based on traditional music and instruments. ^[e]
• Proverb [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Legend [r]: A traditional story purporting to relate to historical people and/or events. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Literature [r]: The profession of “letters” (from Latin litteras), and written texts considered as aesthetic and expressive objects. ^[e]
• Culture area [r]: A region, in anthropology, in which the environment and cultures are very similar. ^[e]
• Ethnography [r]: The scientific collection of data regarding culture and society, generally entailing direct engagement with the culture or society under study. ^[e]
• Ethnic group [r]: A population whose members identify with one another as distinct from others. This usually occurs through a perceived common history, and often also includes shared culture, race, religion, or language. ^[e]
• Cult [r]: Religious sect or group that is relatively limited in size and often considered to be particularly dangerous, manipulative or all-encompassing. ^[e]
• Mythology [r]: The study of myths and sagas. ^[e]
• Ritual [r]: Set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value, which is prescribed by a convention or by the traditions of a community. ^[e]
• Linguistic anthropology [r]: The branch of anthropology that brings linguistic methods to bear on anthropological problems, linking the analysis of semiotic and particularly linguistic forms and processes to the interpretation of sociocultural processes. ^[e]
  • Language (general) [r]: A type of communication system, commonly used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. A wider definition of language - what counts as a language and what doesn't - is a difficult philosophical topic, deserving an article in its own right. ^[e]
• Physical anthropology [r]: The anthropological study of humans as a biological species. ^[e]
• Paleoanthropology [r]: The branch of physical anthropology that focuses on the study of human evolution, tracing the anatomic, behavioral and genetic linkages of our ancient, usually bipedal, ancestors. ^[e]
• Social anthropology [r]: Add brief definition or description