While following some links concerning folklore, I found a
link to Harvard's
Folklore program. I thought it sounded
like a neat place to explore, so off I
go. Under their
"Other Links" section, I found this
link and its description.
JSTOR
Folklore
JSTOR itself is a full-text journal database which
provides
access to more than 500 titles in a wide range of
disciplines, including
African-American studies,
anthropology, Asian studies, folklore, music,
religion, and
sociology. JSTOR Folklore covers five journals: Asian
Folklore
Studies, Folklore, Journal of American Folklore,
Ricerca Folklorica and Western
Folklore, from volume one to
within circa five years of the most recent issue.
These
journals are also indexed by the MLA International
Bibliography, with
coverage beginning later than JSTOR’s
but continuing through the
present.
The second link leads to a login screen.
Now I
knew that journals don't pay the authors any cash. I
knew that they claimed
copyright on othere people's work. I
knew that they didn't know anything about
the fields that
they covered. And pardon me for being judgemental, but
exactly
who thinks they own folklore? Who has a copyright on
a cultural treasure? How
can anybody put a paywall around
the
public domain?
Now, I know there are
limits to this. I have been reading
Carl Jung and his students lately on
folklore. I just bought
"Essays on A Science of Mythology" by Jung and
C.
Kerenyi, and "Interpretation of Fairytales" by Marie
Louise Von
Franz. Analysis is important. But spreading
research is perhaps more important.
And building a story on
a folklore story is not important at all. If one
person
doesn't do it, another will. You pays your money and you
takes your
chances.
Opinion: Building on folklore should not result in a
proprietary
product. To me, it's sort of like deciding to
produce a digital product, but
not allowing anybody to make
copies of it (Hear that, **AA?). Or promoting an
end-of-
season sporting event, but not allowing anybody to refer to
it by name.
(The San Francisco (50-1)'ers and the Baltimore
Blackbirds played in the last
one.)
Just when you think it can't get any dumber, they prove you
wrong.
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