 Moreover, "polyphony" is another important element of hybridity theory, by Mikhail Bakhtin, which is applied to hybrid discourses presented in folklore and anthropology.The development of hybridity theory as a discourse of anti-essentialism marked the height of the popularity of academic "hybridity talk".However the usage of hybridity in theory to eliminate essentialist thinking and practices (namely racism) failed as hybridity itself is prone to the same essentialist framework and thus requires definition and placement.