Knowledge: folklore
See Also:
- arts → performing arts → storytelling
- regional → europe → united kingdom → society and culture → folklore
Links
- Latin-American Folklore Resources Online
http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/folklore.html - Lengthy links-page from UCLA provides access to information about folkloric Latin American festivals, food, games, music, religion, and folktales.
- Archives of Folklore Discussion List
http://listserv.tamu.edu/archives/folklore.html - Hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the discussion-list, from 1990 to the present.
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
http://www.folklife.si.edu/ - Focuses on contemporary grassroots cultures. Festival information, recordings, events, and resources.
- Lucky W Amulet Archive
http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html - Encyclopedic resource describing and illustrating folkloric talismans and lucky charms from around the world, including horseshoe, swastika, four-leaf clover, rabbit foot, raccoon penis bone, hamsa hand, John the Conqueror root, scarab beetle, and black cat bone.
- British Columbia Folklore Society
http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Whatsfolk.htm - A definition and explanation of folklore, with examples.
- New York Folklore Society
http://www.nyfolklore.org/resource/what.html - Definitions of folklore and the related terms folklife and folk arts.
- Paganism in British Folk Customs by Bob Trubshaw
http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/paganism.htm - Article that contrasts the true remains of Pagan origins in the folk customs of England with those customs created or exaggerated through "paganisation" by Victorian romantic authors.
- Journal of Folklore Research
http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/ - A peer-reviewed publication of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, established in 1965.
- Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/vbwi/ - Collected and arranged by Lady Augusta Gregory (1920), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
- Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan
http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/folkbeliefs/ - E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
- Folklore: An Introduction
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~clandrum/folklore.html - Contains definitions, basic categories, and listings of subjects studied by folkloristics.
- At the Edge: The Cosmic Mill
http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/cmill.htm - Article by Alby Stone discussing the hand-mill as an image of the cosmos.
- Archer Taylor
http://www.locustvalley.com/business/Families%20of%20Distinction/Taylor.html - Wolfgang Mieder's biographical sketch of the University of California Professor of Folklore Archer Taylor, and his work as a paremiologist--collector of proberbs.
- Pro Ethnologia
http://www.erm.ee/?node=101 - Journal of the Estonian National Museum, publishing short articles on ethnographical issues. Content in Estonian and English.
- D. L. Ashliman
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/ashliman.html - Folklore researcher, providing extensive resources on Germanic myths, legends and sagas, and Indo-European folk and fairy tales.
- Folklore: an Online Electronic Journal
http://folklore.ee/folklore/ - English-language archives of an informative Baltic Folklore journal published by the Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum. Material about Estonian shamanism, urban legends, ethnomusicology, popular calendar data, and general folk belief.
- Folklore Studies Association of Canada
http://www.celat.ulaval.ca/acef/ - Educational, non-profit association founded in June 1976 for the purpose of increasing education and research in the field of folklore studies in all its aspects.
- Urban Folklore
http://www.indiana.edu/~urbanflk/ - Collection of essays on and images of urban folklore, including murals and graffiti, body art, urban legends, hip-hop, and folklore in movies.
- Basque Folklore
http://www.buber.net/Basque/Folklore/ - Essays and links.
- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/ - Created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife," the Center incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, established at the Library in 1928 as a repository for American Folk Music.
- Directory of Irish and Celtic Folklore
http://web.ncf.ca/bj333/folklore.html - An "A to Z of Irish Folkore," including seasonal celebrations, folktales, folk sayings, folk cures, leprechaun and fairy beliefs, and the origins of names.
- The Folklore of the Isle of Man
http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/folklore/ - Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. W. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book.
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