十九世纪中叶开始在西方逐渐发展起来的民俗学,一般被视为文化人类学的一个分支,是研究文明民族的传统文化的学科,其研究范围有狭义和广义的区别。狭义的民俗学着眼于民间故事、神话传说、谜语谚语、民歌民谣、巫符咒语的研究,通常被称为民间文 Folklore, which began to develop in the West in the middle of the nineteenth century, is generally regarded as a branch of cultural anthropology and a discipline that studies the traditional culture of a civilized nation. Its scope of study is narrowly and broadly defined. Narrow folklore, folk tales, myths and legends, riddle proverbs, ballads, witch spell research, often referred to as folk