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- University of California at Berkeley, Department of Folklore
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/folklore/Folk.HTM - The home page for UC-Berkeley's distinguished Department of Folkore.
- Jewish Folklore in Israel
http://www.folklore.org.il/ - A history of the development of academic Folklore studies in Israel with additional links to many other sites, both Jewish and Folkloric.
- Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/ - A peer-reviewed internet and hadcopy journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture; based at the University of California, but global in scope.
- Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
http://www.indiana.edu/~folklore/ - Established 1962 by Stith Thompson and Richard Dorson; specialities include language and literature, folk and traditional arts, and ritual and belief.
- Academic Programs in Folklore on the Internet
http://www.afsnet.org/aboutfolklore/wherestudyFL.cfm - Ph.D and MA programmes in universities (U.S. centric).
- National Centre for English Cultural Tradition
http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/natcect/index.html - Part of the University of Sheffield, UK. Details of current research projects and courses offered.
- Southern Folklife Collection
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/ - An introduction to online cultural resources offered by the Manuscripts Department, Academic Affairs Libraries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: finding aids and guides, databases, photographs, sound recordings, and exhibits.
- Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature
http://www.chs.harvard.edu/mpc/ - One of the largest repositories of South Slavic heroic song; located at Widener Library, Harvard University; online exhibition of photos, song transcriptions, and video.
- Baltic Institute of Folklore (BIF) Home Page
http://www.folklore.ee/BIF/ - The Institute was founded by the academic folkloric institutions of the three Baltic states -- Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania -- in 1995 to coordinate folklore studies and research. The site includes archives, a newsletter, academic contacts, and conference information.
- University of Missouri Center for Studies in Oral Tradition
http://oraltradition.missouri.edu/ - Academic site fostering the interdisciplinary growth of Oral Tradition Studies, a highly complex field derived from the older and more defined areas of folklore, anthropology, literary studies, and linguistics.
- Oral Tradition, Popular Lore, and Mythology Studies at UCLA
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/opm/ - Educational site presenting a wide variety of material on folklore, art, medicine, music, religion, and dance.
- Indiana University Folklore Collection
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=329 - The Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Folklore and Ethnomusicology Collection home page contains general Folklore references, a list of links to other sites, and a description of the Collection.
- Folkloristics
http://vanha.hum.utu.fi/folk/english.html - Discipline within the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Turku, focusing on fieldwork-oriented research on the folklore and religion of the Finno-Ugric peoples.
- Memorial University of Newfoundland Department of Folkore
http://www.mun.ca/folklore/about/ - Presents information about bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in folklore, including course descriptions. It also provides faculty, staff and student contact numbers and related folklore links.
- Australian Folklore Research Unit
http://www.ari.curtin.edu.au/afr_index.cfm - Archiving, researching, teaching, and related activities at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia.
- Center for Folklore and Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/ - Undergraduate and graduate programs in folklore and folklife. Events announcements and links.
- University of California at Berkeley, Folklore Program
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/folklore/ - Description of the program, news, events postings, and links.
- Folklore and Mythology at Harvard
http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~folkmyth/ - Information on their program and searchable electronic archives.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Curriculum in Folklore
http://www.unc.edu/depts/folklore/ - Program description, searchable manuscripts, and news.
- Folklore Program
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~flr/ - Course description, information on their masters and doctorate programs, and faculty pages.
- Western Kentucky University Programs in Folk Studies and Anthropology
http://www.wku.edu/folkstudies/ - Description of course studies and a reading list.
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