An excellent final project from a student in my Spring 2012 Folklore Fieldwork course.

great collection of info, writing, and resources from a folklore prof.

"Native Americans have long struggled for accurate representation in media, particularly in film. Whether the uncredited performances of the “documentary” Nanook of the North or the familiar racism of traditional Westerns, Indigenous cultures have rarely been given much truthful, let alone positive, attention. However, Native people have been slowly cultivating their own voice in film, and that voice is what Dr. Joanna Hearne has spent her academic career studying." /// also features a great collection of related links and resources

use for ethnography course?

Also published in Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. For ethnography, ethics, doing fieldwork in the family.

Proppian fairy tale generator

Wow, these jokes are kinda mean to PROFESSION MEMBERS! - No man, they're all in fun! (Use for folk humor lesson)

Actually a myth!

-Wait, he rejects the cissexual dichotomy but still subscribes to traditional play gender roles? -Dromiceious. He's only six.

History of social activism knitting.

Variation and actually creation legends about superheros - in general, good job, Hank Green, on implicitly showing the connection between folklore processes, worldview and popular culture!

One doesn't want to be too much of a cultural chauvinist, but this seemed completely wrong to me...When asked how he got from Turkey to the North Pole, Oscar told me with complete conviction that Saint Nicholas currently resides in Spain, which again is simply not true...On top of that, aside from a few pleasantries, Santa doesn't speak Spanish. He knows enough to get by, but he's not fluent, and he certainly doesn't eat tapas.

So awesome. Totally sweet you guys.

Why are we still talking about horses?

"the gateway to uk history." Includes eyewitness accounts, research guides, archives, and etc. Good stuff!

We prepare young people, their teachers, and their families to discover, research, and draw on traditional culture and local knowledge to enrich education and create stronger communities. Local Learning advocates for the full inclusion of folk and traditional arts and artists in the nation's education.

Ten papers address the political uses of ethnographic archives from the late nineteenth century to the present. Archives keep tabs on populations, define and discipline national identities, shape and censor public memories, but also shelter discredited alternative accounts for future recovery. Today their contents and uses are tensely negotiated between states, scholars, and citizens as folklore archives become key resources for the reconstruction of lifeworlds in transition. Case studies and reports come from China, India (Bengal), Afghanistan, Spain, Finland, Estonia, Romania, Croatia, the US, and the German-speaking lands. In a keynote address, Regina Bendix provides a general account of ?property and propriety? in archival practice.

Folklore Historian is the still active publication of the History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society. Back issues feature essays on the history of folklore studies globally as well as studies incorporating or reflecting on historical methodologies; special issues include "Theorizing Folklore," "Symposium on the Contributions of Francis James Child to Folklore Studies," "Martha Beckwith: The First American Chair of Folklore Studies."

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review was the publication of the Jewish Folklore and Ethnology section of the American Folklore Society, before the establishment of the Jewish Cultural Studies series published by Littman. It featured many special-themed issues, including Yiddish folklore, material culture, folk dance, foodways, pilgrimage, Israeli ethnography, folk literature, and Jews in the Heartland.

During Word War II, Norman Hatch was a combat cameraman who witnessed — and filmed — some of the most bitter fighting in the Pacific theater. His efforts ended with, of all things, an Academy Award — for footage so brutal that it took special permission from President Franklin Roosevelt to allow the film to be shown as a newsreel.

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Unseenamerica NYS is an innovative arts project dedicated to increasing worker visibility and dignity. In 10-week workshops, workers are provided with cameras and taught basic principles of documentary photography and creative writing in order to explore and express their daily lives. This is done with the understanding that being seen is often the first step to being heard.

Fieldwork, ethnography materials.

Including Veterans' History Project

Amazing resource.

Evans manages to cover quite some ground in his approach to the topic. Whilst this work remains predominantly a book about linguistics, the author uses information and perspectives from anthropology, history, oral tradition, and indeed folklore in this volume.

Doth Mr Bean of the long, official mailing address protest too much that he is a reliable narrator? Happily, he remembers to close with the traditional “Forward this to everyone you know,” which beloved valediction — curiously omitted by Rita R Reed — is central to the scaremail terrorthodoxy.

The following people agreed to share their stories about how current immigration policy have affected their lives. Follow the links below to hear them tell their stories in our audio slide shows.

There is, in fact, a surprising amount of scholarship on the subject of Thanksgiving, a uniquely American celebration marked by rituals that lend themselves to a wide range of interpretations.

400 years of poems, essays and stories about coming to America, edited by Ilan Stavans.

Welcome to the Fanlore wiki! Fanlore is a multi-authored site for, about and by fans and fan communities that create and consume fanworks.

David Sedaris tells us how Christmas is done in the Netherlands.

The traditional spirit of crafting in America is alive and well -- and infectious.

It turns out that there's a very active My Little Pony modding community that has produced AMAZING versions of everything from Galactus (complete with teeny tiny Silver Surfer) to every major Batman character, and even the cult web favorite Dr. Horrible.

"In opera, accidental circumstances abound. It is a profession designed for the unfortunate incident and the regrettable injury." Just ask Joyce DiDonato or Ana María Martínez. Michael Shmith explores the annals of onstage mishaps.

Eight years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, we remember and here, take a look back, and a look at the present. This year's remembrance is emphasizing volunteerism and service, honoring the private citizens that volunteered after the attacks and encouraging the observance of the anniversary to be a day of service.

on Classweb

To use for class discussion?

This Digital Traditions blog is a companion feature to the Digital Traditions website located at www.digitaltraditions.net. Home to a wealth of folk traditions, South Carolina is culturally and geographically diverse. The state boasts rich sources of traditional culture and folklore. This blog was created to provide a forum for website visitors and a venue for folk artists and traditional arts advocates to voice concerns and observations.

Photographs of New York's most interesting neighborhood in its most neglected age. By Camilo Jose Vergara, as featured in Slate Magazine.

In the early 19th century, a young naval officer who served on various ships exchanged dozens of affectionate letters with his wife in Erie, Pa. George Pearce wrote frequently to his spouse before his death from yellow fever aboard a ship in the Caribbean.

When we praise people who do work that is straightforwardly useful, the praise often betrays an assumption that they had no other options. We idealize them as the salt of the earth and emphasize the sacrifice for others their work may entail...But what if such work answers as well to a basic human need of the one who does it? I

So, what's the answer?

Yo dawg, they heard I like folklore, so they put a folklore in my procrastination so I can folklore while I procrastinate.

The Women's Section was convened more than 25 years ago as folklorists (primarily women) felt the need to meet other feminists, and to address the lack of serious study of women's issues in the field of folklore. Thanks to the work of these first section members, and those that have followed, feminist contributions to the study of folklore are no longer rare nor overlooked. With more than 200 section members, the Women's Section is a substantial force in the American Folklore Society.

Smithsonian spotlights 15 must-see endangered cultural sites, ranging from 20,000-year-old rock carvings in Australia to 20th-century Art Deco buildings along U.S. Route 66.

Backstage at the theater has always been a show within the show, an R- (or even X-rated) drama clearly unintended for the paying crowd in the house.

The Oberlin rocks have been painted for over forty years. Buried within their several inches of paint are thousands of messages left by people from many walks of life who have painted the rocks in happy and trying times....These weekly (sometimes daily) messages are short-lived—a few strokes or sprays of paint and the bumpy canvas is ready for a new artist—but does that mean they have been lost for good?

In a reversal of an 18-year-old military policy that critics said was hiding the ultimate cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the news media will now be allowed to photograph the coffins of America’s war dead as their bodies are returned to the United States, but only if the families of the dead agree.

AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites.

You always read about it: the plumber with the twelve children who wins the Irish Sweepstakes. From toilets to riches. That story.

Peggy's wiki for the Living Words: Folklore and Creative Writing course.

Investing in cultural democracy.

From StoryCorps

This wide-ranging collection features the work of more than 100 poets. Here is the modern poets' response to the classic Brothers Grimm stories, spanning the 20th century with passion, style, wit, and wonder.

After the ceremony but before the performance, the recipient brings the robe to each dressing room in the building. "That's a little personal moment of whatever your relationship is with that person," Heggins says. "You can go into a room and no one's in it, but you have to go into each room. It's a moment of you going in and blessing their room with that robe, and there could be a hug, there could be a kiss. You'll sit and talk about the process, and how you're feeling at that moment."

For Peggy: a running list of Till Eulenspiegel, cooks, cooking, and kitchen (medieval and renaissance) sources.

Amazing images of women, wonder tales, seasons, etc.

"JoMA's last issue is the Summer '08 issue, but our extensive archives of 10+ years of mythic arts material will remain online as an on-going source of mythic arts information & resources."

As a cultural anthropologist, I think Obama's family background is something to celebrate. But even more important, I think the time is ripe for cultural anthropology to become a fundamental part of American education and public culture. Its insights about the perils of ethnocentrism, racialization, and exoticized stereotypes need to become part of our everyday vocabulary.

The Cultural Landscape Bibliography is an ongoing project associated with American Studies 851: Interpretation of Cultural Landscapes. The bibliography was compiled by Mary Corbin Sies, Gilda Anroman, Claudia Rector, and Krista Park, with the present annotations contributed by the students in the fall 1997,1999, and 2001 classes. Additional annotations will be added by future classes.

At Ohio State.

Anthro journal for popular (as well as scholarly) audience.

Sixty years ago, Moses Asch set out with the lofty ambition to record "all the sound of the world." He established Folkways Records — "the little label that could" — and in the decades that followed, Folkways recorded everything from folk singers, to jazz greats, to sounds of the natural world.