Spread of Folklore Motifs as a Proxy for Information Exchange: Contact Zones and Borderlines in Eurasia

The aim of this paper is to reveal patterns of areal spread of folklore motifs in Eurasia and to understand their rationale. The distribution of 615 motifs related to adventures and tricks according to 339 Old World traditions was statistically processed using factor analysis. Tendencies in the area...

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Belarusian language
Cosmology
Criticism and interpretation
Estonian language
Ethnography
Eurasia
Europe
Finland
Finnish language
Finno-Ugric languages
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