The Folklore macroscope: Challenges for a computational folkloristics

Western Folklore

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-27

  Tangherlini, Timothy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archives; Computational folkloristics; Digital humanities; Future of the discipline; Research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882273625     PISSN: 0043373X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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