Meanings
- uncommonSynonym of folkloric.
Yet this folklorical (pejorative), exotic Africa folds back on herself through the processes of inversion described above. A folklorical Africa for colonisers and their economic interests […]
1980, René Worms, Revue internationale de sociologie2 more examples
Folklorical significance: Gemini is cross-cultural. Twins are everywhere in prehistory, from Cain and Abel and Romulus and Remus, to Castor and Pollux and Freya and Freyr. This sign also represents the portal—[…]
2010, Sally Cragin, The Astrological Elements: How Fire, Earth, Air & Water Influence Your Life, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 62Here, the reproduction is situated within a folklorical/meme domain and that gives composers, writers, and visual artists a chance to claim past aesthetics as something that is separated from its time of production. Which I believe it is.
2020, Holger Schulze, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 397Synonyms: folkloric
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of folkloric.
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