Aino Folk-Tales
http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/aft/index.htm
This primarily ethnographic book by Basil Hall Chamberlain, originally published in 1888, and introduced by Edward B. Tylor, covers the creation myths and linguistic peculiarities of the most prominent indigenous peoples of Japan, now referred to as Ainus. The book is divided into four sections: "Tales Accounting for the Origin of Phenomna," "Moral Tales," "Tales of the Panaumbe and Penaumbe Cycle," and "Miscellaneous Tales". Although employing now-discarded anthropological methods, from the contemporary perspective, it offers an early and important insight, not only by being some of the earliest recorded information on one of the still enigmatic indigenous communities of the modern world, but on the ethnographic methods of the early anthropologists. The book is published electronically as part of the Sacred Texts collection of religiously-oriented literature.
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American Folklife Center, The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/
The American Folklife Center's Web pages provide presentations of selected collections; full-texts of publications, including "Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resourses in the United States"; the Folkline Information Service, providing information on national events, jobs, and training opportunities in folklife; information about published recordings; guides to the collections; and links to other ethnographic resources. Included is "California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties", an ethnographic field project documenting the music of a variety of European ethnic and English and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. This comprises sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians (using RealAudio and WAV formats). Full-text of songs is available as both SGML and HTML files.
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American Folklore Society 
http://www.afsnet.org/
The American Folklore Society, which was founded in 1888, serves to "stimulate interest and research in all aspects of the study of folklore and folklife". Members of the Society come from thoughout the world. The Society's web page contains a wealth of information organised under four main headings: Contacting AFS, details of the Society's officers and committees; About AFS includes information about meetings, membership and byelaws and access, the Society's Newsletter and other official documents; Resources, including announcements, a calendar of events, news of jobs and prizes. The final section lists related sites and links. The site also has its own search engine.
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Annotated Bibliography of Papua New Guinean Folklore, by Thomas H.Slone
http://members.tripod.com/~THSlone/PNGFB.html
This annotated bibliography of Papua New Guinea myth and folklore was created in 1999 by Thomas H. Slone. It contains articles and other publications organised by geographical, topical and language headings.
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Archive of Folk Culture Collections
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/archive.html
The Archive of Folk Culture was founded in 1928 as a repository for American folk music. It became part of the American Folklife Center in 1978. Today, its multi-format, ethnographic collections are diverse and international, including over one million photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and moving images. It is America's first national archive of traditional life, and one of the oldest and largest of such repositories in the world. The Archive's web pages give details of the reference services available from the American Folklife Center, information about and links to collections and special presentations available online and access to a list of finding aids for the collections.
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Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative
http://aton.ttu.edu/
This is the website of the Uysal-Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (U-W ATON) at the Texas Tech University Libraries in Lubbock Texas, USA. The Turkish folk stories, songs and narratives contained here have been collected by Prof. Uysal, Dr. Warren Walker and Mrs. Barbara K. Walker since 1961. The material is either in the original sound or video files or translated and transcribed by native Turkish speakers. Languages used are Turkish and English. Copyright restrictions apply.
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Australian Folklore Yesterday and Today: Definitions and Practices, by John S. Ryan
http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol8/austral.htm
This article presents an overview of the historical development and current state of folklore studies in Australia. A particular feature noted is the growing breadth of the discipline as it seeks to incorporate many of the beliefs and practices associated with modern, urban living. The paper is published in volume 8 of Folklore, a journal of the Institute of the Estonian Language.
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Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
http://www.folklife.si.edu/
The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a part of the Smithsonian Institution dedicated to collecting and analysing aural material from contemporary 'grassroots cultures', in the United States and worldwide. The Center organises the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and produces the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label. This website provides access to the whole Folkways catalogue. It also provides information on the annual Folklife Festival and the Center's ongoing preservation projects and publications.
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Changing Face of Japanese Folk Beliefs by Norman Havens
http://www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/folkbeliefs/havens.html
This wide-ranging essay discusses the development of Japanese folk studies and changes in folk beliefs themselves. The focus is on the changing definition of folk as a literate culture supersedes an oral one and as folk beliefs of the past become cultural artefacts to be preserved in the present. The paper is published in the volume "Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan" edited by Inoue Nobutaka.
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Contemporary Legend
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/ISCLR/ContemporaryLegend.htm
Contemporary Legend is an annual publication of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. The journal presents original research findings and theoretical analyses on all aspects of contemporary legend. The term contemporary legend includes Sagen, dites, popular rumours, sayings and beliefs which may be either modern `urban legends' or legends in active circulation in a given community. The journal itself is a printed publication but the web page gives details of editorial policy, the editorial board and subscription rates, as well as instructions for authors. There is also a link to the Society page which gives more detail on the work they do.
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Cultural Analysis
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/
Cultural Analysis is a peer reviewed interdisciplinary journal freely available online. It publishes articles, notes, reviews, and responses in the areas of folklore and popular culture. Publication of articles is ongoing and subscribers are informed about new articles via email. Articles are available in both html and PDF formats. The journal is based at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Culture & Tradition
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~culture/
Culture & Tradition is Canada's longest running, bilingual folklore journal.Publishing for nearly twenty years in both French and English, Culture & Tradition is currently run by graduate students in Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Topics generally covered by the Journal include the traditional arts,music, cuisine, architecture, beliefs, cultural psychology, and sociological structure of regional ethnic, religious and industrial groups in Canada. The journal itself is available only on subscription in printed format but the web page gives contents listings back to the first issue as well as the full-text of the most recent Culture & Tradition Newsletter. There is also a list of books available for review and links to other, relevant sites.
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (DGV)
http://www.d-g-v.org/
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde was founded in 1963 and continues the work of the earlier Verband der Vereine für Volkskunde, established in 1904. The society seeks to encourage reesearch, publication and the exchange of ideas within the general discipline area of folklore. In pursuit of these goals, it publishes a journal, the Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, holds biennial conferences and maintains a number of commissions with specialised remits, for example health or women's studies. The website gives full information about all these activities as well as detailing the Society's officers, constitution and membership arrangements.
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Electronic bibliography of Estonian folklore, compiled by Karin Ribenis
http://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/erbibl/
This bibliography records books, journal articles and dissertations published from 1918-1992. There are approximately 7,000 entries which are arranged alphabetically. The majority of the entries relate to material published in the langugaes of the region but English, German and French material is also covered. Writings on neighbouring disciplines i.e. ethnology, linguistics, history, or the theory of literature, have been included if the studied subject is closely related to folklore.
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Ethnologies
http://www.celat.ulaval.ca/acef/revue.htm
Ethnologies is a yearly journal of Canadian folklore studies. Originally published under the title Canadian Folklore Canadien by the Folklore Studies Association of Canada, this bilingual journal is intended to disseminate knowledge about activities concerning folklore and ethnology, in Canada and elsewhere, through the publication of articles, book reviews, notes, and other information pertaining to research and academic inquiry in all branches of folklore. The journal's website provides information about subscription rates and notes for intending contributors. There is also a complete contents listing with, for more recent issues, article abstracts.
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Fabula: Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung
http://www.degruyter.de/journals/fabula/detail.cfm
"Fabula is a medium of discussion for issues of all kinds which are of interest to international folk narrative research. The journal contains eight divisions: Articles, Minor Contributions, Research Reports and Conference Reports, News, Projects and Queries, Reviews, Bibliographical Notes, and Books Received. Principal themes of the article section are the study of popular narrative traditions in their various forms (fairy tales, legends, jokes and anecdotes, exempla, fables, ballads, etc.), the interrelationship between oral and literary traditions as well as the contemporary genres. Interest focuses on Europe and overseas countries which are influenced by European civilization, but there is quite a number of contributions from other culture areas." The journal's web page gives contents listings for previous volumes which are searchable, and subscription details. The site is bilingual in German and English.
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Folk belief today, edited by Mare Kυiva and Kai Vassiljeva
http://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/usund/ingl/
This is a collection of 21 essays which discuss various aspects of current folklore beliefs. The major part of the essays focus on the Baltic and the countries of eastern Europe but there are also essays on Japan and Ireland. The topics covered include music, shamanism, festivals, folktales and ethnomedicine. The book is made available in full text on the web as part of a site devoted to Estonian folklore.
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Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan, Inoue Nobutaka, General Editor
http://www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/folkbeliefs/index.html
This is the third volume in a continuing series designed to introduce recent studies on Japanese religion to the international English-speaking audience. It is published by the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics of Kokugakuin University. The volume was originally published in 1994 and the web version reproduces the full-text of this publication. Six chapters cover such topics as Annual Events and the Transformation of Japanese Religious Life, Wayside Shrines at Urban Train Stations and The Changing Face of Japanese Folk Beliefs.
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Folklore
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0015587X.asp
Folklore is a scholarly journal published biannually for the Folklore Society. It publishes ethnographical and analytical articles on vernacular culture worldwide and has a special interest in the history, theory and method of the study of folklore. The journal also reviews current scholarship in folkloristics, cultural studies, social and oral history, ethnology, social anthropology and related fields. The journal's web page gives instructions for intending contributors, subscription rates and a contents listing together with details of the editorial board. There is also information about the publisher's Scholarly Articles Research Alerting (SARA) service and a facility to order online copies of articles.
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Folklore
http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/index.html
This journal, which is published by the Institute of the Estonian Language and edited by Mare K̵̮iva & Andres Kuperjanov, contains articles about shamanism, urban legends, ethnomusicology, pareomiology, popular calendar data and folk beliefs. The editors accept articles by scholars of any country on any aspect and genre of folklore and comparative religion.
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Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
A collection of mostly European folktales, compiled by Professor D.L. Ashliman for the University of Pittsburgh, USA, website. The collection is organised thematically, and content categories are listed alphabetically. The entire collection is spread over two Web pages, which are interlinked.
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Folklore Forum
http://folkloreforum.net/
Established in 1968, Folklore Forum is produced by graduate students at the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department of Indiana University, and managed through Folklore and Ethnomusicology Publications. The journal encourages the free-flowing exchange of research and ideas on all aspects of folklore and folklife and seeks continually to question existing assumptions and bring new ideas to the fore of humanities and social sciences research. The current issue of the online version of the journal is available from this site, and digitized versions of all earlier issues are hosted by the University of Illinois's repository, searchable by title, author or date. The journal's web site gives details of the editorial board and information for those wishing to submit an article.
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International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/ISCLR/index.htm
"The International Society for Contemporary Legend Research encourages study of so-called modern and urban legends, and also of any legend that circulates actively. Members are especially concerned with the ways in which legends merge with life: real-life analogs to legend plots, social crusades that use legends or legend-like horror stories, and search for evidence behind claims of alien abductions and mystery cats." The Society's web page gives general information about the society, membership rates and activities. The Society publishes a newsletter, Foaftale News, and a journal, Contemporary Legend.
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Inventing the Text: A Critique of Folklore Editing by David E. Gay
http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol14/editing.htm
This paper is an examination of the roles of editing and the editor in the creation of folklore texts. The author concludes that "because of their importance in shaping the materials we study, and thus the ways we study these materials, the processes and traditions involved in making scholarly editions have a special claim to our attention. The creation of an edition is not an objective, neutral act. It is an argument for a particular reading of the text set within a particular scholarly or intellectual tradition. These texts and readings... are the source materials for our studies of religion, mythology, and folk narrative - and because of this, textual criticism and editing [have] implications beyond the creation of texts. Our understanding of concepts like mythology and religion, and even of the existence and nature of whole communities, relies on texts that have been filtered through the traditions, assumptions, and reconstructions of textual critics. Because we depend on these editions for our research, we need to be aware [of] the traditions and ideologies that have gone into their making." The article is published in Volume 14, 2000 of the ejournal, Folklore.
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Jewish Folklore in Israel
http://www.folklore.org.il/index.html
Jewish folklore is one of the most ancient preserved folklores in world culture, but its study in Israel is one of the most recent. Although it can be considered as a continuation of the study of Jewish folklore in central Europe, as part of the Wissenschaft des Judentum and the ethnographic studies of Jewish Iife in Eastern Europe in the l9th century, Israeli folkloristics as an academic discipline did not start before the 1960s.From the state of no representation of the discipline in Israeli universities of that time, folkloristics is studied and researched now in all five Israeli universities, with a number of scholarly journals, and central position in Israeli academic life, education and society. This website, maintained by Gila Gutenberg, brings together a wide range of information about Jewish folklore studies in Israel including a list of relevant academic departments and individual scholars, other organisations such as museums, past and forthcoming conferences, recent books and periodicals and a comprehensive links section. The site also has its own search engine.
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