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Open Folklore Web Archive

Collected by: Indiana University Web Collections

Archived since: Sep, 2011

Description:

The Open Folklore Web Archive is a growing curated collection of websites relevant to the study of folklore to ensure that dependable website information about folklore will always be available. Our collection emphasizes the websites of academic folklore departments and programs, and of public-sector and independent folklore organizations.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Folklore

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Title: The Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures

URL: http://csumc.wisc.edu/

Description: The Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures (CSUMC) is committed to the languages and cultural traditions of this region's diverse peoples. CSUMC fosters research and the preservation of archival collections, while producing educational and outreach programs for a broad public audience.

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Subject:   Folklore Sound Recordings Folk Music,  Language ,  Folk Culture Minnesota Upper Midwest Wisconsin Iowa Illinois Missouri Michigan Preservation

Title: University of Missouri Folklore, Oral Tradition, and Culture Studies

URL: http://folklore.missouri.edu/

Description: Advantageously situated within the Department of English with an emphasis on theoretical and writing strategies, the study of folklore at MU offers a unique opportunity for a truly interdisciplinary experience. With associated and affiliated faculty in Religious Studies, Sociology, Classical Studies, Anthropology, Women and Gender Studies, Theater, Art History, African Diaspora Studies, and Romance Languages, just to name a few, and the range of theoretical approaches students can explore increases even more. Folklore itself doesn’t exist in a vacuum: at MU, we believe the study of folklore shouldn’t either.

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Subject:   Post-Secondary Education Religion Arts Classical Studies Anthropology Gender,  Language ,  Oral Histories Performance

Title: The University of Wisconsin Folklore Program

URL: http://folklore.wisc.edu/

Description: The dynamic and ever-emergent Folklore Program engages varied comparative and interdisciplinary approaches in a broad range of courses on oral, material, social, and spiritual aspects of African, Middle Eastern, Asian, European, American Indian, North, Central, and South American folklore, on theory and the history of scholarship, and on the public presentation of folklore through archives, exhibits, festivals, media productions, and other modes of representation.

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Subject:   Folklore Post-Secondary Education Cultural Expression Oral Histories Spirituality,  Language ,  Ethnography

Title: Goucher College Masters in Cultural Sustainability

URL: http://www.goucher.edu/graduate-programs/ma-in-cultural-sustainability/

Description: The Goucher College M.A. in Cultural Sustainability brings together knowledge from anthropology, history, folklore, ethnomusicology, communications, business and management, linguistics, and activism to teach students how to effect positive, community-driven change in the cultures they care about most-whether it be an African village, an American inner-city neighborhood, a remote tribe in Asia, or a threatened public space just down the street. The discipline of cultural sustainability can be and will be applied wherever valued ways-of-life are at risk.

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Subject:   Folklore Post-Secondary Education Anthropology Ethnomusicology,  Language ,  Arts Globalization

Title: Folklife in Louisiana

URL: http://www.louisianafolklife.org/

Description: The Louisiana Folklife Program, within the Division of the Arts, is designed to identify, document, conserve, and present the folk cultural resources of Louisiana. Folklife includes living traditions learned informally over time within ethnic, regional, occupational, and family groups.

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Subject:   Folklife Louisiana Folk Art Arts Crafts,  Language ,  Music Film Oral Histories Traditions

Title: Memorial University of Newfoundland Department of Folklore

URL: http://www.mun.ca/folklore/

Description: The Memorial University of Newfoundland is the only Anglophone university in Canada to offer comprehensive folklore programs at all levels. Memorial University is also a vital part of its community - one steeped in unique lifestyles and traditions, and where the study and celebration of culture and heritage is considered crucial. This provides folklorists with rich opportunities for innovative community partnerships and learning experiences.

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Subject:   Post-Secondary Education Folklore Canada Ethnography Women's Studies Arts Administration Oral Histories Music Folksongs Childlore,  Language ,  Popular Culture

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