1. As a folklorist he collaborated on the publication of a folkloristics compendium. 2. This meaning is at the core of folkloristics , the study of folklore. 3. In some respects, Roby's efforts presaged later work in folkloristics . 4. The academic study of folklore is called folkloristics . 5. Several of his articles on folkloristics serve as texts in graduate courses in folklore. 6. He and Dennis Tedlock defined ethnopoetics as a field of study within linguistic anthropology and folkloristics . 7. As an academic discipline, folkloristics straddles the space between the Social Sciences and the Humanities. 8. Ethnopoetics is considered a subfield of ethnology, anthropology, folkloristics , literature and translation studies. 9. Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including ethnographic study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics . 10. Phraya Anuman Rajadhon ( 1888 1969 ) was the first Thai scholar to seriously study local folkloristics .