Abstract

AbstractThree years ago, on the eighteenth anniversary of the publication of Folk Life, Trefor Owen presented an assessment of some of the problems and perspectives apparent in the field of folk life studies. He identified three principal trends: firstly, peasant studies with its strong anthropological emphasis; secondly, classic nordic ethnology characterized by a systematic, cartographic approach; and thirdly, the ecological approach, which he believes to be the one ‘likely to prove most rewarding to the ethnologist's study of traditional culture’.

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