Folklore Department, Society and Institute Internet Resources
The American Folklife Center
Governmental site from the American Folklife Center that holds the Library of
Congress's Archive of Folk Culture, a repository for American folk music. The
website includes full texts of publications; digital presentations of collections; links
to other resources in ethnographic studies; the Folkline information service,
and Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States.
American Folklore Society
Not-for-profit organization providing folklore research information including
membership info., publications, upcoming events, conferences, jobs, internships,
graduate and other degree programs, and related site links.
Baltic Institute of Folklore
Academic research site run by The Baltic Institute of Folklore (BIF), founded by
the academic folkloristic institutions of the three Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania in 1995. BIF coordinates folklore studies and research. BIF exchanges
information about the current institutions, folklorists, conferences, fieldworks,
workshops, publications and folklore material.
Folkloristics - Department of Cultural Studies, University of Turku
Academic site from Finland with links to electronic journals; those with full text
online include: Elektroloristi (in Finnish); De Proverbio, and Oral Formulaic
Theory and Research (a searchable online bibliography). There are also links to
publication tables of contents and abstracts from journals and articles.
