瑞吉娜·本迪克丝(ReginaBendix)现为德国哥廷根大学民俗学教授,本文是她应译者之约为《民间文化论坛》撰写的专稿。欧美民俗研究伊始之时,便受到渴求本真性之强烈影响。坦率而言“,本真性”一词,隐含着对真实性的探求,因为这种探求具有多义性和不易把握的本质,学界和社会均难 Regina Bendix is ​​now a professor of folklore at the University of Göttingen in Germany. This article is the transcript of her book entitled “Folk Culture Forum”. At the beginning of the study of European and American folklore, it was strongly influenced by the desire for authenticity. To be frank, the term “authenticity” implies the search for authenticity because the exploration is of an ambiguous and difficult-to-grasp nature, neither academics nor society