Professor Martha Sims along with Professor Martine Stephens explore the questions and answers of folklore in their book "Living Folklore". They begin by defining what is and what isn't folklore. According to the authors folklore is the "informally learned unofficial knowledge about the world, ourselves, our communities, and our traditions". The authors then "loosely" define a glossary which is then correlated with the study of this field. The addition of those generic terms of identification make as the authors continue "communication with other scholars of this field easier."
A Pakistani truck in the National Mall at the 2002 Smithsonian Silk Road Folklife Festival.
Drivers in Pakistan adorn their trucks with
elaborate paintings, poetry and calligraphy representing
different regional and historical areas of Pakistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trucks_in_Pakistan
This seems to be an interesting field which as mentioned in the reading keeps changing. How and When this field is used remain questions to be answered hopefully with more reading and illumination on this particular subject.
Drivers in Pakistan adorn their trucks with
elaborate paintings, poetry and calligraphy representing
different regional and historical areas of Pakistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trucks_in_Pakistan
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