Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 99

Seeking the Present in the Past: Chinese Folklore, Folklore Studies and Intangible Cultural Heritage Within and Without History

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Adam Grydehøj

Ping Su

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.introduction

“Ritual Bones” and “Modern Skin”: Institutional Patronage, Spatial Negotiation, and the Digital Spectacularization of Xinchang Diaoqiang Opera

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Zhou Mingying

Ning Mei

Wang Wei

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.mingying_mei_wei

Waterways, Lineages, Borders: A Ritual Folklore Study of the Dragon Boat Festival in Urban Villages in Panyu, Guangzhou

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Ping Su

Jin Xu

Yuejian Lin

Xinran Nie

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.su_xu_lin_nie

Inside and Outside the Genealogy: A South China Lineage’s Ancestral Narratives and the Tensions of Cultural Heritage Safeguarding

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Xiaoyue Zhan

Tingcong Lin

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.zhan_lin

What Gods Want: A Vernacular Religion Approach to Ritual Service Providers and the Desires of Deities in South China Village Temples

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Adam Grydehøj

Yuejian Lin

Qi Pan

Min Zhou

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.grydehoj_lin_pan_zhou

Embodied Participation and Affective Engagement in the Revitalization of Yingge Dance in Chaoshan, China

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Huafei Chen

Na Wu

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.chen_wu

Occupational Folklife and Uncertainty Management in Jingdezhen Ceramics Production

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Yanrong Tang

Zhendong Gao

Youseff Leonardo Carnevali Jaimes

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.tang_gao_carnevali

The Ritual Logic of Gendered Rules for Solitary Burial: Ghost Marriage in North China

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Zuan Ou

Yuqi Liu

Ziyu Wang

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.ou_liu_wang

Sorcery on Social Media: Douyin Representations of Magic Users and Ethnic Difference in Hainan, China

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Gang Hong

Adam Grydehøj

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.hong_grydehoj

Representations of Miao Ethnicity in Social Media Posts Concerning Chinese Ethnic Minority Photography

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Gao Erya

Yang Lin

Yuejian Lin

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.erya_lin_lin

From Folk Fluidity to Visual Mediatization: The Production of Heritage Meaning in Fujian Youshen

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Jie Wang

Na Wu

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.wang_wu

Scientific Contributions Selected by Mare Kõiva & Tiina Kirss

The Infiltration of Soviet Folklore: A Morphogenetic Reading of Latvian Folklore Studies

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Ieva Garda-Rozenberga

Māra Vīksna

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.garda_viksna

Moonstruck for a Fortnight: A New Interpretation of the Animal Bridegroom Motif

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Chris Knight

Helena Tužinská

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.knight_tuzinska

Lament Songs Glorifying Greek Soldiers Killed in Battle During the Balkan Wars (1912–1913)

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Evangelos Avdikos

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.avdikos

Voices of Shamans in Contemporary Art of Kazakhstan: The Search for Authenticity in Dance

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Togzhan Moldalim

Damir Urazymbetov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.moldalim_urazymbetov

Rain, Ritual, and Climatic Vulnerability: The Caloian in Covurlui Land, Romania as a Cultural Indicator in the Anthropocene

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George Pascal

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.pascal

Strategic Structures in Armenian Folk Games: Ethnographic Modeling Through Nash Theory

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Hripsime Asatryan

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.asatryan

Practical Viewpoint

HUM Hackathon 2026: Creative Solutions for Using and Mediating Cultural Heritage

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Kaisa Langer

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.langer

News in Brief

“Folk Art in the Contemporary – Practices and Challenges” Conference on 23–24 April 2026 at Lund University, Sweden

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László Koppány Csáji

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.n01

Book Review

Oral Epic Traditions: A New Look from China

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Dmitry Funk

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2026.99.b01

Submission Guidelines

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