Tradition gives way to emergent structures word of mouth bows to the reality of transmission by other means and anonymity is uprooted by written and digitized texts. Foundational definitions based on concepts such as tradition, oral transmission, and anonymity easily have become obsolete. Whether employed in academe or by the public sector, folklorists provide a lens through which to focus on the identification, documentation, and analysis of underrepresented groups and their cultural expressions. Usually relegated to being synonymous with falsehoods and superstition, folklore is not static but speaks to its own dynamism. Folklore manifests in the everyday, with a certain taken-for-grantedness that appears self-evident to all, and thus devoid of much interpretation.
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