
It reviews current scholarship in a wide range of adjacent disciplines including cultural studies, popular culture, cultural anthropology, ethnology, and social history. It publishes ethnographical and analytical essays on vernacular culture worldwide, specializing in traditional language, narrative, music, song, dance, drama, food ways, medicine, arts and crafts, and popular religion and belief.

It is one of the earliest English-language journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The Folk-Lore Record in 1878. Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics.
