GLOSSARY
Anecdote
A short narrative about an interesting, amusing, or curious incident, often biographical and based on a real event.
Archive
A place where documents, letters, diaries, photos, recordings, and other information are stored and can be used by researchers with special permission.
A topic-by-topic summary of the contents of a digital recording.
Community
Any group of people sharing a common identity based on family, occupation, region, religion, culture, gender, age, interest, or avocation; where you live, go to school, work, worship, have family; people may be part of many overlapping communities, including their neighborhood, church, school, clubs, service organizations, or peer groups.
Culture
A people's ways of being, knowing, and doing.
Custom
A usage or practice that is common to a group of people or to a particular place.
Docent
A person who conducts guided tours through a museum and discusses and comments on the exhibits.
Ethnography
The process of documenting a group's cultural traditions.
Family Folklore
The stories, traditions, customs, rituals, sayings, expressions, celebrations, nicknames, foodways, games, and photographs that are preserved and passed on within a family.
Fieldwork
Documentation of cultural expressions and ways of life conducted in the social and cultural contexts in which they take place; the gathering of anthropological or sociological data through first-hand observation and interviewing of subjects in the field.
Folklore/Folklife
The traditional expressive culture shared within various groups: familial, occupational, religious, and regional. Expressive culture includes a wide range of creative and symbolic forms, such as custom, belief, occupational skill, foodways, language, drama, ritual, music, narrative, play, craft, dance, drama, art, and architecture. Generally these expressions are learned orally, by imitation, or in performance.
Folklorist
Someone who studies how people's expressive traditions — their stories, customs, art, skills, beliefs, music, and other expressions — are created, shaped, and made meaningful in community life. Folklorists conduct much of their research by observing and interviewing people "in the field."
Genre
A category of expression (art, oral tradition, literature) distinguished by a definite style, form, or content, such as folktales, legends, proverbs, ballads, or myths.
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