The terms folklore and folklife are both used as all encompassing terms to identify all forms of folk expression. However, folklore is more commonly associated with oral stories, such as legends, myths, riddles, and jokes, and the term folklife places more emphasis on material objects, customs, and traditions.
Folk architecture includes structures that are built by people who are not professionally trained and who follow a traditional structural form that is common in the region where it is built. The fact that the people who built the structures were not formally trained, but were following a tradition that is passed down as to how a house, barn etc. should look is what distinguishes folk architecture from other forms of architecture.
Christine Watkinson
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