Ethnology, Ethnography, Folklore - and the Meticulous Presentation of an Inspired Collector:

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(1) "Tales from the Field: experimental or narrative pieces that take the reader into a particular social world and convey the 'feel' of an event, relation, situation, place or phenomenon through distinctive techniques." --Excerpt from advertisement for the periodical, 'Ethnography', a journal new in 2000. (2) "Ethnology deals systematically with the various branches of mankind in detail. Ethnography is [more] descriptive..." --A. H. Keane, 'Ethnology', p. 622 of J. Hastings, ed., 'Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics', vol. v (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1912). (3) "Ethnopoetics studies the creative expression of non-Western and marginal cultures, through translation, performance and criticism." --(Elizabeth C. Fine,'Ethnopoetics', p. 190, in 'Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature', ed. Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce A Rosenberg (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1998). (4) "Ethnography is the disciplined and deliberate witness-cum–recording of human events." --'Ethnography', Vol. 1, no. 1 (2000), p. 5. (5) "I pointed out Motherwell's involvement in a loose-knit movement... in support of a kind of cultural nationalism: the interest in preserving relics of the past that suggest a distinctly Scottish culture/nation..." --Mary Ellen Brown, 'William Motherwell's Cultural Politics', (Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 2001), p. 21.