As a field of study folklore focuses on the various forms of folk culture—including folk literature, performances, material culture, and customs—particularly of subcultures within broader literate and technologically advanced societies. In popular usage the term folklore is often applied narrowly to only the oral literature of a group. The study of such customs in largely nonliterate societies is usually part of the fields of ethnology and anthropology.
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