Folklore, Ethnology, Philology: National Sciences and Global Connections
Folklore and ethnology were from their beginnings closely associated with language. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz used languages to identify and categorise peoples, and he influenced the German-speaking scholars who coined the earliest ethnological terms, the first of which came in the 1740s. Largely th...
| Published in: | Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0017 |