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# Folklife; definition

"Folklife" for purposes of this Chapter means the sum total of traditional cultural materials of a community learned outside formal institutions and handed down over time. The cultural materials include language, traditional styles of architecture and land use, folk music and dance, folk medicine and beliefs, rituals, festivals, foodways, arts and crafts, oral history, tales, and myths.