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| | What is Folklore? |
 | | Folklore comes early and stays late in the lives of all of us. | | | This book is founded on the simple assumption that there must be some element all folklore has in common (else we could not lump it all together). | | | In spite of the combined forces of technology, science, television, religion, urbanization, and creeping literacy, we prefer our close personal associations as the basis for learning about life and transmitting important observations and expressions. |
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http://www.nyfolklore.org/resource/what.html
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| | BUBL LINK: Folklore |
| | Resources cover aspects of mythology and folklore that are connected to the likes of calendar customs, including information on the quarter days, and themes that are found in both Eastern and Western cultures, such as the fertility symbol of the Green Man and rites of passage. | | | An encyclopaedia of mythology, folklore and legend, containing over 4700 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings, legendary creatures and monsters from around the world. | | | Details of ancient magic from the 1st to the 7th centuries AD, a period which saw the magical traditions of several different cultures merge, forming a common set of rituals and symbols. |
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http://bubl.ac.uk/link/f/folklore.htm
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| | Internet Public Library: Folklore |
| | The traditional verses of folk songs and rhymes are social rather than personal in nature and reflect something about the community they come from. | | | Cultural knowledge that is spread through societies by means of oral traditions such as stories, songs, jokes, or sayings. | | | A collection of electronic texts from around the world about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics |
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http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/soc70.50
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| | Jewish Folklore in Israel-Article |
| | Goldberg-Mulkiewicz currently heads the Folklore Program at the Hebrew Unlverslty ot Jerusalem and has been a frequent visiting professor at several Central European universities. | | | The work of Issachar Ben-Ami of the Folklore Research Center at the Hebrew University deals with the interrelationships of belief, custom and narrative in Moroccan Jewish folklore. | | | Hasan-Rokem completed her Ph.D. thesis at tho Hebrew University under Dov Noy and studied further at Helsinki University, Finland, under Matti Kuusi. |
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| | Jewish Folklore In Israel-Departments |
| | Department of Hebrew Literature: An introductory course: Introduction to the Hebrew Folktale (Elements of folkloristics and a wide survey of the Hebrew folktale from the Bible to Modern Israel). | | | We teach the following areas of folklore studies: Folk literature, both oral and written, especially in various languages of the Jews, Folk art and material culture in Jewish societies, Folk belief, Folk religion, customs and rituals in Jewish culture. | | | "Frontier and Metropolis: Images of Self and Other in the Lore of The Jews of Subcarpathian Ruthenia", The 15th Conference for the Study of Folklore: "The South - Center and Periphery in Oral Lore", Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, June 4-5, 1996 [Hebrew]. |
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http://www.folklore.org.il/departme.html
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| | Palestinian Folklore Home Page |
| | The Palestinian Folklore Center in al-Bireh and The Center for the Revival of Arabic Heritage in al-Taybah. | | | According to Webster's dictionary (1983), folklore is the "traditional customs, tales, sayings, or art forms preserved among a people." In addition, "folklore of any society anywhere is the humanity of people; it unifies them and directs their wisdom towards the benefits of the human kind." (Abu Hadba, 1994) | | | The popular literature has been circulating among the Palestinian generations vocally until books were published and people were introduced to the written form of this literature. |
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http://www.barghouti.com/folklore
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| | The Protection of Expressions of Folklore: The Attempts at International Level |
| | The definitions in some of those laws (the laws of Burundi, Cote d'lvoire, Guinea, Kenya, Rwanda and Senegal) refer to unknown authors as creators, some others (the laws of Barbados, Cameroon, Central African Republic and Sri Lanka) to communities, or groups of communities, while the Law of Congo to both unknown authors and to communities. | | | They noted the welcoming and keynote address by H.E. Somporn Asavahame who invited the participants to meet a challenge of creating a new international standard for the legal protection of folklore. | | | In the case of the majority of laws providing for the protection of folklore creations, it can be deduced from the context of the various provisions that such protection is perpetual, but the laws of some countries (Congo, Ghana and Sri Lanka) also state this explicitly. |
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http://itt.nissat.tripod.com/itt9903/folklore.htm
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| | Myth and Legend from Ancient Times to the Space Age |
| | My nascent annotated bibliography for catastrophism includes a section on mythology and religion in which I list works which I've found useful in the study of mythology, religion, and folklore. | | | You may also want to check my pages on Astrology, Psychic Stuff, and Skepticism and Religion for related material. | | | A myth is a sacred story from the past. |
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http://www.pibburns.com/myth.htm
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| | About the American Folklore Society: Prizes |
| | This letter must be signed and should be between 250 and 500 words in length. | | | Nominations should include: a letter of nomination; a one- or two-page biography or resume of the nominee; three to five letters of support from a broad range of people, including community members who have benefited from the nominee's work and people from outside the folklore field in addition to colleagues. | | | A nominator must have read the book that is being nominated and write a nomination letter that describes the book, its significance for folklore studies, and its interest to a wider audience. |
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http://www.afsnet.org/aboutAFS/AFSprizes.cfm
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| | Weather World Weather Folklore |
| | He said, he was happy today but would be taking things four days at a time. | | | Weather World welcomes you to its Weather Folklore page. | | | Folklore says that if the brown stripe is wider than the black stripes, the winter will be long and |
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http://members.aol.com/Accustiver/wxworld_folk.html
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| | FOLKLORE [aboutmalta.com] |
| | Some Maltese traditions are closely related to Catholic Mediterranean folklore, however, there are several aspects which work either independently from organized religion, and sometimes even counter to the religious beliefs. | | | There have been various attempts to capture folk life in publications and museums, but as any modern folklorist will tell you, folklore is best preserved in living traditions. | | | The folk music and singing tradition of Malta is a good example of Maltese Folklore not associated with Christianity. |
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http://www.aboutmalta.com/FOLKLORE
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| | CSUF -- Folklore Home Page |
| | Folklore touches all our lives, from birth to death, from initiation to finals, from yesterday to day, from one to all. | | | CSUF offers a number of courses treating both folklore (the "stuff") and folkloristics (the discipline) taught by experts in the field. | | | In addition we maintain folklore archives to serve your research needs. |
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| | Buber's Basque Page: Folklore eta Tradizioak * Folklore and Traditions * Folklore y Tradiciones * Folklore et Traditions |
| | Tenacity in religion, myth, and folklore: the neolithic Goddess of Old Europe preserved in a non-Indo-European setting | | | Taken from "Folklore and Traditions", one of the series of "The Basque Country, Come and then pass the word" 2nd edition, January 1993 Author: Angel Murua, Published by: Gobierno Vasco, Departamento de Comercio, Consuma, y Turismo. | | | If others would like to contribute translated articles, please let me know. |
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http://www.buber.net/Basque/Folklore
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| | Australian Folklore |
| | Still, they modified it to exclude 'tradition based' and they excluded literature as a form of folklore. | | | Seal has argued that folklore is best understood as a historical continuum, a continuing and infinitely flexible tradition in which the forms may change but the process remains the same. | | | This emphasis was probably due to a suspicion that their treatment there would separate folklorists from their sources. |
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http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol8/austral.htm
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| | South Asian Folklore -- An Encyclopedia |
| | Featuring contributions from leading scholars in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka as well as work from US and European specialists, this A–Z reference is the first to provide comprehensive coverage of folklore in south Asia. | | | With over 500 signed entries ranging from Bangani Ball Games to Nepalese Witches, this unique new resource sheds light on the folkways of countries, ethnic groups, and religions that in the past were often left unexplored by western students. | | | She is a well-known specialist in Afghan folklore, and author of Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions. |
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http://www.routledge-ny.com/folklore/southasian/index.html
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| | UFO Folklore Center |
| | We can also come closer to the "truth," whatever that might be. | | | But the main point is this: when a folklorist talks about "folklore," he or she is not implying that the stories are untrue, or that the people telling them are liars. | | | Folklore means the "lore" (stories) of the "folk," whatever that lore might be, true or not. |
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http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/news2/folk1.html
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| | Archives of Appalachia Folklore |
| | The following is a list of some significant books to provide you with more information on the many aspects of folklore in Appalachia. | | | This collection of monographs includes many titles related to the subject of folklore. | | | FOLKLORE: the beliefs, legends, and customs, current among the common people (Oxford English Dictionary) |
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| | Solar Folklore- Stanford Solar Center |
| | The body is leather (or some kind of fabric) and serves as a hat. | | | The beautiful background for the Native American folklore pages was created by Brad Snowder of the Western Washington University Planetarium. | | | The raven image on some of the Native American folklore pages is actually a head-dress. |
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| | Folklore of Blue Moon, Philip Hiscock, IPS Planetarian |
| | "Old folklore" it is not, but real folklore it is. | | | The most interesting bit of modern folklore from my point of view as a student of language and folklore is the sudden popularity of the term "blue moon." Names of moons at certain times of the year have been around a long time, and almanacs are especially wont to list twelve of them. | | | Well, if this is what the authors did, they lost out because the term immediately entered the folklore of the modern world and it has become as living a meaning of the term "blue moon" as any of the earlier ones. |
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| | ALT.FOLKLORE.GHOST-STORIES FAQ |
| | The stories are untrue, although some have a kernel of truth to them or seem like they *could* be true. | | | The folklore is that whoever sees the ghost is destined for theatrical greatness." Further details (provided directly from -The Book of Lists-, Bantam, 1977): The ghost is that of a young man who was murdered in 1780. | | | If you've been visited by ghosties, ghoulies, long-legged beasties, or things that go bump in the night, a.f.g-s is the perfect place to tell the world about your experiences. |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/folklore/ghost-stories
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| | The Missouri Folklore Society |
| | Got news or notes on Missouri folklore, folklife or folkarts people and events? | | | We're collecting photos of your Missouri Folklore related people, places and events, as well as MFS members' emails and URLs for those who'd like to have that information listed here. | | | The Missouri Folklore Society was organized December 15, 1906, "to encourage the collection, preservation and study of folklore in the widest sense, including customs, institutions, beliefs, signs, legends, language, literature, musical arts, and folk arts and crafts of all ethnic groups throughout the State of Missouri." |
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| | Folktexts: A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology, page 1 |
| | Stories of type 503 from around the world about mortals who are blessed or cursed by the "hidden people." | | | The account, written by Tacitus in the year 98, of a north German deity variously named Ertha, Hertha, Nerthus, or Mother Earth. | | | Also known as The Grimms' Fairy Tales, this is the most influential of all folklore collections and one of the most beloved books of all time. |
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http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
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| | CSUF -- Folklore links |
| | A really down-to-earth and valuable discussion of chain letters and hoaxes, and how to recognize them | | | Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania | | | And some info about Urban legends, virus hoaxes, and chain letters: |
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http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/folklinks.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Folklore |
| | Folklore, general term for the verbal, spiritual, and material aspects of any culture that are transmitted orally, by observation, or by imitation. | | | Folk tradition and popular tradition do intermingle, however. | | | Folklore has come to be regarded as part of the human learning process and an important source of information about the history of human life. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761578070/Folklore.html
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| | Folklore |
| | Folklore is the total of oral and written literary collections including fairy tales, myths, legends, fables and family folklore, religious beliefs, music, dance, dress, recipes, customs, and the observances and traditions which relate to the daily lives of a people. | | | Folklore is more about questions than it is about answers. | | | In an age of science where atoms are explained to school children and germs are readily understood especially well when examined... |
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http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/folklore
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| | University of Pennsylvania - Folklore and Folklife |
| | The discipline of folklore emerged in the nineteenth century and was forged by the scholarly and intellectual trends, and the social and political conflicts of the twentieth century. | | | Folklore is the study of human expressions in languages, images, music and food, and movements in traditional societies and the representation of these forms in the world of modern technology literatures, and the arts. | | | Folklore's reach is global, ranging from villages, towns and cities in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Australia and Europe, to migrant and immigrant communities in the megalopolitan and rural regions of the world, and spanning diverse population groups as well. |
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http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/introduction.html
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| | Puerto Rico's Culture: Folklore |
| | The practice of Santería dates to the fifteenth century when its earliest practitioners - members of the Yoruba people of West Africa - were brought to Puerto Rico as slaves. | | | Many of these legends are ghost tales about demons who roam the island after dark, pursuing food or people or else protecting gold and loot that pirates long ago stashed away for safekeeping. | | | Much of the island's folklore also dealt with the forces of nature that would descend in the form of a "big blow" (hurricane), decimating local crops and settlements. |
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http://welcome.topuertorico.org/culture/folklore.shtml
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| | Folklore Society - folklore, vernacular culture, traditions, customs and beliefs, children's folklore |
| | Look here for the folklore of traditional music, song, dance and drama, narrative, arts and crafts, customs and belief, popular religion, traditional and regional food, folk medicine, children's folklore, traditional sayings, proverbs, rhymes and jingles. | | | Folklore Society - folklore, vernacular culture, traditions, customs and beliefs, children's folklore | | | Winner of The Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2005 for his book |
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| | Folklore, Myth and Legend |
| | A well-organized, quick reference to gods and goddesses, legendary creatures, and monsters from a wide range of world mythologies and folklore. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storfolk.html
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| | Folklore / Myth |
| | In a sense, folklore is the verbal and/or written embodiment of a people's soul, a mirroring on a large scale of the individual's subconscious. | | | Folklore is more than a collection of stories. | | | Northern European, Germanic, and Nordic Folklore and Mythology |
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http://www.djmcadam.com/folklore.html
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| | Open Directory - Society: Folklore |
| | Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan - E-text of the book edited by Inoue Nobutaka, Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University. | | | The Folklore of the Isle of Man - Myths, legends, superstitions, customs and proverbs, by A. Moore (1891), e-text from a Manx Note Book. | | | Directory of Irish and Celtic Folklore - An "A to Z of Irish Folkore," including seasonal celebrations, folktales, folk sayings, folk cures, leprechaun and fairy beliefs, and the origins of names. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Folklore
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| | The SF Site Featured Review: Folklore Reviews |
| | FOLKLORE was a site dedicated to great books from the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres. | | | Here are their reviews, formatted to match the rest of the SF Site but containing their words. | | | Creator and designer of FOLKLORE, Tooner has been into Science Fiction and Fantasy novels for over 15 years. |
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| | Amazon.com: Folklore: Music: Nelly Furtado |
| | Folklore is an even more fabulous album than her debut, which sees Nelly bridging the gap and breaking the boundaries between different cultures and their musical styles. | | | Nelly Furtado has crafted another superb album here. | | | Some people are hating this album, but I can't see why. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000DFZZA?v=glance
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| | Taylor & Francis Journals: Welcome |
| | Folklore publishes ethnographical and analytical essays on vernacular culture worldwide, specialising in traditional language, narrative, music, song, dance, drama, foodways, medicine, arts and crafts, and popular religion and belief. | | | It encompasses both North American and European approaches to the study of folklore and covers not only the materials and processes of folklore, but also the history, methods and theory of folkloristics. | | | Folklore aims to be lively, informative and accessible, whilst maintaining high standards of scholarship. |
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| | FOLKLORE |
| | Folklore reveals and helps us understand our humanity. | | | The unique contribution of folklore is to strive to focus on systems of interrelationships between people and their artistic productions -- we consider both the folk and the lore and how they influence each other. | | | Communities throughout time and space have created stories, songs, dance, music, rituals, customs, festivals, and various material artistic genres (a small sampling of what folklorists study) to make sense of and to celebrate the world and the human condition. |
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http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~mmagouli/folklore.htm
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| | Folklore |
| | While the Chicago Folklore Society disappeared at the end of the twentieth century, grassroots folklore organizations have survived into the twenty-first century. | | | Chicago's folklore includes legends and stories, folk speech, names and expressions, material culture, foodways, traditions, beliefs, and folk arts. | | | Reports of a man dressed as Homie the Clown, a character from the television show In Living Color, driving a white van and kidnapping children throughout the metropolitan area, were collected from a variety of children in Chicago during the 1990s. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/467.html
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| | Estonian Folklore :: Index |
| | The covered aspects of folklore also include the heritage of other peoples of the Uralic language group. | | | Estonia is a small country with ca one million people, who speak the Estonian language as their mother tongue. | | | According to the folklore material contributed to the Estonian Folklore Archives, the Folklore Prize Laureates of 2004 are Helgi Suluste, a former schoolteacher from Tartu, and Merlin Lõiv, student of the University of Tartu. |
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http://en.folklore.ee
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| | New York Folklore Society's Resources |
| | our primary resources for the stuff of folklore are in your family, your community, the people you work and play with, the buildings and landscapes you inhabit—and of course in the traditional life ways and cultural expressions of other groups you encounter. | | | Education—Connect to organizations involved with folklore and traditional culture in education. | | | Folk Arts Around the Nation—Check out folklore activities and organizations in other parts of the nation and the world. |
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http://www.nyfolklore.org/resource/resource.html
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| | Folklore.org: About Folklore |
| | Reality is subjective, and memory is shaped by both prior and subsequent experience, so two witnesses of the same incident may disagree about what transpired. | | | There may be more than the usual amount of bugs, especially if you catch it on a bad day. | | | Interlinked anecdotes also leverage the definitive characteristic of the web, the link, to form little webs of their own, and be stitched into the greater tapestry of the web itself, in a fashion that's not possible on the printed page. |
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| | The Color of Folklore |
| | Of course, The Color Purple is the name of a movie but purple in mythology is a synonym for Roman gods. | | | Color is interjected into stories in two ways--through words and illustrations. | | | Color is important in folklore because it conveys symbolic meaning, creates illusions and represents abstract ideas. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/1071/34428
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| | University of California at Berkeley, Folklore Program |
| | The program is an interdisciplinary one in which faculty members from both the humanities and the social sciences participate. | | | This program is designed to provide graduate students with a competent knowledge of both the materials of folklore and the various methods of studying these materials. | | | We are in shock at the loss of one of the most beloved and respected members of the folklore and anthropology community. |
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| | Encyclopedia Mythica: Folklore |
| | Folklore from all over the world, including cryptozoology. | | | Here you will find folklore and folktales from all countries and cultures, Arthurian legend, and Greek heroic legend. | | | Go to the introduction page or to the articles. |
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http://www.pantheon.org/areas/folklore
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| | Folklore Home Page |
| | Students study how tradition continues to enrich and express the dynamics of human behavior throughout the world. | | | The Folklore Program offers perspectives on ethnic, regional, occupational, age, gender, and other traditional identities of individuals in specific societies. | | | Folklore graduates work in various public and private agencies as teachers, archivists, editors, arts and humanities consultants, museum curators, and festival planners. |
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| | About Folklore: Where to Study Folklore |
| | Since many faculty and students at these programs do fieldwork in the regions where their university is located, these programs can also be good sources for information about local folk traditions. | | | American Folklore Society members teach, carry out research, and provide community service at many universities in the US, Canada, and abroad. | | | Remember, though, that in planning your education a web search is not enough; you should follow up by making personal contact with faculty members and department administrators to learn the specific circumstances, strengths, and opportunities of the departments that interest you. |
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http://www.afsnet.org/aboutfolklore/wherestudyFL.cfm
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| | Folklore Help and Information |
| | Folklore Discussion - Tell us your folk tales, ghost sightings, ask questions, enjoy friendly debates, share your folk medicine and remedies and expand your knowledge |
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| | Urban Legends and Folklore |
| | Is there any truth to this folklore?" Read more... | | | I believe I read an article by Robert Anton Wilson a ways back regarding the Smithsonian or some D.C. museum housing private parts of famous people — John Dillinger, for example. | | | He may not be the biggest bunny in the world (that honor apparently belongs to a British cousin named Roberto), but at 3 feet in length from nose to tail and between 17 and 22 pounds avoirdupois, Herman the German Giant is definitely a hare-raising specimen, as his diminutive owner Hans Wagner can attest. |
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| | UW-Madison Folklore Program - About the Program |
| | The Program is the teaching arm of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, a regional humanities institution focused on the languages and folklore of the Upper Midwest's diverse peoples. | | | A Certificate in Folklore is also available to student working toward a baccalaureate degree in any of the UW–Madison's schools and colleges and to Special Students. | | | Additional courses may be selected from these or others at the 300 level and above. |
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| | Folklore Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| | Graduates of our program teach at universities and colleges in many parts of North America and Europe, not only in folklore departments but also as interdisciplinary appointments in fields such as communications, dance ethnography, English, French and women's studies. | | | Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive. | | | This page has been indexed for full-text searches using GlimpseHTTP. |
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