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American folklorists

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Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Zora Neale Hurston
African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)
Alfred L. Kroeber
American anthropologist (1876–1960)
Joel Chandler Harris
American journalist, children's writer (1848–1908)
Stith Thompson
American folklorist (1885-1976)
Charles Eastman
Native American physician and scouting pioneer (1858–1939)
Milman Parry
American hellenist (1902–1935)
Virginia Hamilton
American writer of children's books (1936–2002)
Charles Godfrey Leland
American folklorist (1824-1903)
Robert Lowie
American anthropologist (1883–1957)
Alan Dundes
American folklorist (1934–2005)
Jean Ritchie
American folk singer
Dell Hymes
American anthropologist and linguist (1927–2009)
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist (1875-1941)
James Mooney
American ethnographer (1861–1921)
Les Blank
American documentary filmmaker
Martha Warren Beckwith
American folklorist and ethnographer
Richard Dorson
American folklorist (1916–1981)
Jan Harold Brunvand
American folklorist
John R. Swanton
American anthropologist and linguist (1873-1958)
Albert Lord
American academic (1912-1991)
Stetson Kennedy
Author, folklorist, anti-Ku Klux Klan crusader (1916-2011)
Lydia Cabrera
Afro-Cuban anthropologist (1899-1991)
Adrienne Mayor
Historian of folk science (born 1946)
Ella Cara Deloria
Yankton Dakota Author (1889–1971)
Arthur Caswell Parker
American archaeologist (1881–1955)
Mary H. Eastman
American writer on Native American life, pro-slavery novelist
J. Frank Dobie
American writer (1888-1964)
Pura Belpré
Puerto Rican writer, puppeteer, and librarian (1899–1982)
Underwood Dudley
American mathematician
Eliakum Zunser
Lithuanian Yiddish writer (1840–1913)
Harold Courlander
American anthropologist (1908-1996)
Frank Speck
American anthropologist (1881-1950)
Wolfgang Mieder
German linguist, paremiologist (born 1944)
Thomas Frederick Crane
American folklorist, academic and lawyer (1844–1927)
Ricardo Alegría
Puerto Rican scholar, anthropologist, archeologist (1921-2011)
Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm
American folklorist
Kerry Noonan
American actress
Annah Robinson Watson
American author
Izzy Young
noted figure in the world of folk music in America and Sweden (1928-2019)
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
19th century American Indian literary author
John Lindow
academic
Archer Taylor
American folklorist (1890–1973)
Norma Elia Cantú
American writer
Benjamin Radford
American skeptic
William Bascom
American folklorist (1912-1981)
George Herzog
American ethnomusicologist (1901-1983)
Mary Alicia Owen
American author
Kathryn Tucker Windham
American journalist, author and photographer (1918–2011)
Jeremiah Curtin
American folklorist (1835–1906)
Dan Ben-Amos
Israeli-American folklorist (1934–2023)
Gladys Tantaquidgeon
Native American anthropologist, Medicine Woman, author (1899–2005)
Marcelle Lively Hamer
librarian and Texas folklorist
Josepha Sherman
American writer (1946-2012)
Gene Weltfish
American anthropologist and historian (1902–1980)
Ruby Pickens Tartt
author, folklorist, artist, librarian, musician
Erminnie A. Smith
American anthropologist and folklorist
Gerald McDermott
American film director, children's writer and illustrator (1941-2012)
Abigail Mandana Holmes Christensen
American folklorist (1852–1938)
Frank Gillis
American librarian and pianist