For that matter, the experts themselves are a mixed breed. Anthropologists, housewives, historians and such by profession, they approach their discipline as amateurs, collectors, commercial propagandists, analysts or some combination of the four. They have widely varying backgrounds and aims. They have little ``esprit de corps.''

The outlook for the amateur, for instance, is usually dependent on his fondness for local history or for the picturesque. His love of folklore has romanticism in it, and he doesn't care much about the dollar sign or the footnote. Folklore is his hobby, and he, all too rightly, wishes it to remain as such. The amateur is closely related to the collector, who is actually no more than the amateur who has taken to the field. The collector enjoys the contact with rural life; he hunts folklore for the very ``field and stream'' reasons that many persons hunt game; and only rarely is he acutely concerned with the meaning of what he has located. Fundamentally, both these types, the amateur and the collector, are uncritical and many of them don't distinguish well between real folklore and bogus material.

But there are also the commercial propagandists and the analysts -- one dominated by money, the other by nineteenth century German scholarship. Both are primarily concerned with the uses that can be made of the material that the collector has found. Both shudder at the thought of proceeding too far beyond the sewage system and the electric light lines. The commercial propagandist, who cann't afford to be critical, gets along well with the amateur, from whom he feeds, but he frequently steps on the analyst's toes by refusing to keep his material genuine. His standards are, of course, completely foreign to those of the analyst. To both the amateur and the commercial progandist the analyst lacks a soul, lacks appreciation with his endless probings and classifications. Dominated by the vicious circle of the university promotion system, the analyst looks down on and gets along poorly with the other three groups, although he cannot deny his debt to the collector.