Ethnographic Resources related to Folklore, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, and the Humanities

General Sources | Directories | Scholarly Programs | Archives and Museums | Online Presentations of Archival Collections | Grants and Awards | Journals and Newsletters | Societies | Educator's Resources | Ethnomusicology and Folksong Resources | Fieldwork | Indigenous People's Resources | Mythology and Narrative

General Sources

• Anthropology Resources (American Anthropological Association)
• Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution (this page includes a link to Smithsonian Folkways Records)
• Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing - Ethnographics Gallery, University of Kent at Canterbury
• European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER)
• Human Relations Area Files (Yale)
• National Anthropological Archives & Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
• National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA)
• National Endowment for the Arts Traditional Arts Network (Tapnet)
• Social Sciences pages of Intute
• The Ur-List: Web Resources for Visual Anthropology (Peter Biella)

Directories

• Arts Over America: Directory of State Arts Agencies (National Assembly of State Arts Agencies)
• Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Information in the United States (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
• Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists (SUNY at Buffalo)

Scholarly Programs

• Folklore, Oral Tradition and Cultural Studies , University of Missouri, Columbia
• Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi
• Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University
• Indiana University Folklore Institute
• Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore Department, Canada
• UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Curriculum in Folklore
• University of Oregon Folklore Program
• University of Pennsylvania Center for Folklore and Ethnography
• Uppsala University Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Sweden
• Western Kentucky University Folk Studies Program

Scholarly Societies and Organizations

United States, Canada, and South & Latin America

• American Anthropological Association
• American Folklore Society
• Appalshop (Whitesburg, KY)
• Association for Cultural Equity (New York, NY)
• Augusta Heritage Center (Elkins, West Virginia)
• British Columbia Folklore Society
• Cityfolk (Dayton, Ohio)
• Citylore: The New York Center for Urban Culture (New York, NY)
• Folk Alliance
• Folklore Studies Association of Canada
• International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
• Louisiana Folklife Program
• National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA)
• NCFolk (North Carolina Folklife Institute)
• New York Folklore Society
• North Carolina Folklore Society
• Northwest Folklife (Seattle, WA)
• Society for Ethnomusicology
• Texas Folklife Resources
• Traditional Arts Program, California Academy of Sciences
• Virginia Folklore Society
• Western Folklife Center (Elko, NV)

  Europe

• Baltic Institute of Folklore (BIF) (Estonia)
• The Folklore Society (Great Britian)
• Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) (The Netherlands)

Archives and Museums

A comprehensive list of folklore and ethnomusicology archives in the United States may be found in Chapter III of the Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

United States & Canada

• Acadian Archives/Archives Accadiennes, University of Maine at Fort Kent
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology, University of Virginia (includes recordings from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
• Archive of Folk Culture Collections, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
• Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University
• Center for Acadian and Creole Folklore, University of Southwestern Louisiana
• Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University
• Fife Folklore Archives, Utah State University
• Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
• Kevin Barry Perdue Archive of Traditional Culture, University of Virginia
• Masters of Ceremony: Traditional Artists and Life's Passages (Oregon Historical Society)
• McKissick Museum Folklife Programs, University of South Carolina
• Mills Music Library: Wisconsin Music Archives, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Millman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Widener Library, Harvard University
• Northern Virginia Folklore Archive, George Mason University
• Online Archives of American Folk Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
• Rio Grande Folklore Archive, University of Texas Pan-American
• Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Woody Guthrie Archives, New York

Europe

• African Music Archive of the Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, University of Mainz, Germany
• National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, UK

Online Presentations of Archival Collections

• America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
• American Slave Narratives, an Online Anthology University of Virginia presentation of American Folklife Center recordings. See also Voices from the Days of Slavery American Memory presentation of the same set of recordings.
• Archive of Folk Culture: Collections and Special Presentations Available Online, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
• Bodleian Library: Broadside Ballads Project, Oxford University
• Immigration and Ethnicity (Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Former Balch Institute Collections)
• Online Archive of American Folk Medicine (database), UCLA
• Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940 from the Library of Congress Manuscript Division
• National Visionary Leadership Project (African American oral history project)
• Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia (Christopher Fennell and James Deetz)
• Utah State Univaersity, Digital Library, Grouse Creek Cultural Survey (presents materials from a join project ith the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
• Veterans History Project: See and Hear Veterans Stories (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)

Grants and Awards

• The Center For Field Research, Earthwatch
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Awards (Parsons Fund -for ethnographic study; Blanton Owen Fund -for ethnographic fieldwork; Henry Reed Fund for Folk Artists)

Journals and Newsletters

• American Folk (American Folklore and Popular Culture)
• Cultural Anthropology
• Culture & Tradition, Canadian Graduate Student Journal of Folklore and Ethnology
• De Proverbio: An Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies
• Dirty Linen
• EOL (Ethnomusicology OnLine )
• Folklore (Estonia) published by the Folklore Department of the Institute of Estonian Language and the Estonian Folklore Archives.
• Folk Roots (UK)
• New Directions in Folklore
• Oral Tradition (a publication of the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri)

Special Topics

Educator's Resources

• American Dreams Through the Decades by Leni Donlan and Kathleen Ferenz (includes seven American Folklife Center online collections as resources.The Learning Page, Library of Congress)
• Arizona Heritage Project
• Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Children (CARTS) (City Lore)
• The Educational CyberPlayGround (Karen Ellis. See especially "Linguistics" and "Music" for folklore materials.)
• Educational Offerings from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
• Explore Your Community educational poster, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
• Exploring Cultural Rituals by Nanci Douglas & Mary Ruddy (includes four American Folklife Center online collections as resources.The Learning Page, Library of Congress)
• Folklife and Fieldwork: a Layman's Introduction to Field Techniques by Peter Bartis
• Learning about Immigration through Oral History by Barbara Wysocki and Frances Jacobson (The Learning Page, Library of Congress)
• Montana Heritage Project
• National Visionary Leadership Project select "Teacher Resources" from the menu (African American oral history project)
• Rural School and Community Trust
• A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources (Carol Moran and Catherine H. Kerst, ed. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
• Visions in the Dust: A Child's Perspective of the Dust Bowl by Jan King and Rena Nisbet (The Learning Page, Library of Congress)

Ethnomusicology and Folksong Resources

• Sixteenth Century Ballads: A work in progress... (Greg Lindahl)
• Ceolas Celtic Music Archive
• Dandemutande: Zimbabwean Music and Culture Worldwide
• Digital Tradition Folksong Full Text Search (via The Mudcat Cafe)
• Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music, University of Washington Music Library (Internet resource list)
• Folkmusic.org
• The Folk Song Index (Oberlin College and Sing Out!)
• The Traditional Ballad Index, California State University, Fresno (bibliographic database)
• TUNEdb: the Traditional Music Database

Fieldwork

• Folklife and Fieldwork, by Peter Bartis. Full text guide published by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Indigenous People's Resources

• Alaska Native Knowledge Network
• Center for World Indigenous Studies
• Index of Native American Resources on the Net (Karen Storm)
• Native Web
• Native Wiki

Mythology and Narrative

• Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable, hypertext version of the text by Thomas Bulfinch compiled by Bob Fisher
• Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts edited and/or translated by D.L. Ashliman (Tales from around the world accompanied by citations, essays, maps, and photographs.)
• Encyclopedia Mythica (tm), M.F. Lindemans
• Grimm's Fairy Tales (National Geographic Society)
• Mything Links An annotated and Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythologies, Fairy Tales and Folklore, and Sacred Arts and Traditions (Kathleen Jenks, Pacifica Graduate Institute)