Folkloric Bangladesh: A Study on Recent Changes

Folklore, culture, heritage, folk literature, arts and crafts of a country as known` pulse of the people’. Today, Folklore is practices in the remote areas only and centralized mainly to the rural people. In this age of globalization, we now identify several swings of changes in material folklore. Even, subject like trade and commerce are also influencing traditional cultures in multiple ways. In fact, many people of a country express their positive view towards the folk-culture, although a few of them cast their negative attitude to it. It is proved that; folk-material and culture is in threat all over the world but Bangladesh is an exception. It has a glorious and beautiful culture and heritage. Even though, it`s traditional expressions are facing various obstacles. In this study, we have tried to find of its importance in real life and how to confirm benefit of the folk-artist and their works from different complications. In this connection, valuation of different folk-material shas been shown. Besides, we have given some recommendations for the recognizing of the folk-artist and how-to development of folklore management nationally. This study prepared according to the Exploratory research methodology with field investigation and followed the anthropological approach.