Folklore Links

GENERAL LINKS American Folk: folklore, folklife, folk art, popular culture http://www.americanfolk.com/ American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Fieldwork http://www.loc.gov/folklife/fieldwork/ Contents http://www.loc.gov/folklife/az-index.html American Folklore Society Folklore Commons (What is Folklore? Etc) http://www.afsnet.org/?page=FolkloreCommons Detour Art (very cool site if youre interested in a wide variety of folk art) http://web.mac.com/queenodesign/Detour_Art_Travels/Welcome.html http://detourarttravels.blogspot.com/

Digital Ethnography http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/ Family Folklore Project http://smithsonianeducation.org/migrations/seek2/family.html Fife Folklore Archives at Utah State AWESOME resource http://library.usu.edu/folklo/ National Council for the Traditional Arts http://www.ncta.net/

Open Folklore http://openfolklore.org/ Oregon Folklife Network http://ofn.uoregon.edu/ Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage http://www.folklife.si.edu/

List of folklore & related journals http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1529

TOPIC SPECIFIC Film http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~mmagouli/folklore_films.htm Folk Narrative http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=2212 Including: Aesops Fables http://aesopfables.com/ Bulfinch Mythology http://www.bulfinch.org/ Cinderella Project http://www.usm.edu/english/fairytales/cinderella/cinderella.html Multilingual Folktales http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october97/sugimoto/10sugimoto.html#2 Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

Foodways Deconstructing Dinner http://www.cjly.net/deconstructingdinner/ Foodways and Anthropology http://www.usm.edu/antsoc/anthro/teaching/foodways.html Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance http://www.greatermidwestfoodways.com/ Indiana Foodways Alliance http://www.indianafoodways.com/ Southern Foodways Alliance http://southernfoodways.org/ Urban legends focusing on food and drink http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fooddrink/Food_and_Drink.htm Limericks http://www.limericks.org/pentatette/reply.html Urban Legends Snopes (the authority on urban legends http://www.snopes.com/snopes.asp World of Urban Legends http://www.worldofurbanlegends.com/ Material Culture

http://mcu.sagepub.com/ Music Folk Alliance International http://www.folkalliance.org/ Public Sector Folklore List (PUBLORE) https://list.unm.edu/cgibin/wa?A0=publore Teaching Folklore http://library.usu.edu/Folklo/edresources/verbal.html if youre going to be a k-12 teacher, good activities Local Learning Network http://locallearningnetwork.org/ Folk Arts in Education (Oregon Folklife Network links) http://ofn.uoregon.edu/programs-2/folk-arts-in-education/ Tongue twisters http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/tongue-twisters/ Urban dictionary http://www.urbandictionary.com/

LOCATION-SPECIFIC List of regional folklore links http://www.library.illinois.edu/edx/folklore/regional.html#webhel Iowa: Dan Slaughters sculpture park http://www.narrowlarry.com/nlslaug.html Fairfield Folk Arts & Dance Co-op http://www.fairfolk.org/ Iowa Arts Council, Iowa Roots http://www.iowaartscouncil.org/programs/folk-and-traditionalarts/iowa-roots/index.shtml Iowa Folklife http://www.uni.edu/iowaonline/folklife/intro/index.htm Jolly Ridge http://www.narrowlarry.com/nljolly.html Grotto of the Redemption http://www.westbendgrotto.com/ Kansas: Garden of Eden http://www.garden-of-eden-lucas-kansas.com/

Kansas Grassroots & Folk Art http://www.kansastravel.org/kansasart.htm M.T. Liggett Sculptures http://webpages.charter.net/dnance/concpark/mullinville.htm Paul Boyer Museum of Animated Carvings http://genada.homestead.com/boyerindex.html Missouri: The Black Madonna Shrine and Grottos http://www.franciscancaring.org/blackmadonnashri.html Missouri Valley Folklife Society (great set of links) http://www.mvfs.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&It emid=6 Truman State University http://www.trumanindex.com/search-1.1432943?q=folklore International International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts http://www.cioff.org/events-festival.cfm/es/4344/HungriaSummerfest_International_Folklore_Festival_-_Rackeve Meditterranean International Folklore (good links to groups & festivals) http://www.miff.si/index.php?option=com_sobi2&Itemid=44

Definitions Intercultural Competence http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/articles/info/definition-interculturalcompetence.html Positionality (sample) http://susanlucas.com/it/dissertation/positionality.html

Writing Grammar Girl http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/

Great set of links about writing http://wps.ablongman.com/long_behrens_wrac_9/27/6979/1786760.c w/index.html Internet Research and Citation Guide http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/1744/1786413/ocg/intr opage.html