Le Congrès International de folklore de 1937

The 1937 International Folklore Conference. C. Velay Vallantin. What was the status of folklore between the wars? In 1937, the first International Folklore Conference, which took place in Paris, proposed a grid for the analysis and classification of popular objects and events. The Conference gave legitimacy to the methods of scientific investigation developing or authorizing certain types of formulations in the field of popular culture. Under the direction of Paul Rivet and Georges-Henri Rivière, with the collaboration of Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre and André Varagnac, the Conference was instrumental in creating the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris in 1937. The Conference historiographic data and epistemological foundations are analyzed according to the modalities of the Front populaire events, determined by institutional ideological factors such as the interest for the German Volkskimde folklorist guidelines and the focus on colonial issues.Vallantin Catherine Velay. Le Congrès International de folklore de 1937. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 54ᵉ année, N. 2, 1999. pp. 481-506