Фолклорът във възгледите на Михаил Арнаудов
Folklore in the Views of Mihail Arnaudov

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the conceptions of the prominent Bulgarian folklorist Mihail Arnaudov about the essence of folklore, expressed in the fundamental study “Folklore. From the history and theory of ethnographic research”, which has been published in 1934 in “Essays on the Bulgarian Folklore”. The scholar examines in details the history of the meaning of folklore, as well as of the interest towards the ethnology, and after that expresses also his conception. Avoiding categorical formulae, he supports those authors who by folklore mean spiritual creative folkart. Arnaudov does not aim at giving a definition of folklore, neither points his searches to its structural principles. In the historical survey, as well as in expressing his own points of view, the scholar underlines that folklore is the unity of people’s spiritual creative expressions. In other words, under folklore, M. Arnaudov means total artistic possession of the people – an organic and deferred with internal system conception. In details is concerned the question “What does folkloristics mean?”. Arnaudov convincingly proves the self-value and the independence of this science and its worthy place among other relative sciences.

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