Everything about The Aarne-thompson Classification System totally explained
The
Aarne-Thompson classification system is a system for
classifying folktales.
Background
Antti Aarne was the student of
Julius Krohn and his son
Kaarle Krohn. He further developed their
historic-geographic method of comparative folkloristics, and developed the initial version of what became the Aarne-Thompson classification system of
classifying folktales, first published in
1910. The
American folklorist
Stith Thompson, in translating Aarne's motif-based classification system in
1928, enlarged its scope, and with his second addition to Aarne's catalogue in
1961 created the
AT-number system (also referred to as
AaTh system) often used today. The AT classification system has recently (
2004) been expanded by Hans-Jörg Uther to the Aarne-Thompson-Uther or
ATU system.
» The Aarne-Thompson system catalogues some 2500 basic plots from which, for countless generations, European and Near Eastern storytellers have built their tales. As Europeans and Near-Easterners travelled to the New World, the Far East, Africa, and other distant places, their tales migrated as well, often flourishing in their new environments. Hence, the Aarne-Thompson system encompasses tales found around the world.
—Ashliman, p. ix
The classification was criticized by
Vladimir Propp of the
Formalist school of the
1920s, for ignoring the
functions of the motifs by which they're classified. Furthermore, the "macro-level" analysis means that the stories that repeat motifs may not be classified together, while stories with wide divergences may be, because the classification must select some features as salient.
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