Subject Guides: Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (MLCS): Folklore

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Folklore Scholarship: Search for Journal Articles, Books...

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) This link opens in a new window Interdisciplinary search for journal articles and University of Alberta Libraries books
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window Includes literature about folklore topics in English and other modern languages. Indexes book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, and dissertations published from 1926-present.
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Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window Indexes articles on world history for the time period1450 to the present. Published since 1954.
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Slavic Humanities Index This link opens in a new window The Slavic Humanities Index is a bibliographic database in the field of Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern European Studies. This comprehensive database indexes important scholarly periodicals published in the region that until now had remained largely unindexed and, therefore, difficult to utilize in research. It includes publications from Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
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Alberta Folklore and Local History Collection The archival collection includes many aspects of the history, tall tales, humour and stories of Alberta. Manuscripts, reminiscences, stories, plays, poems, photographs and other materials are included. The collection, which contains approximately 1,000 accessioned items, is housed in the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library. The archive was collected by the University of Alberta between 1942 and 1946 under the directorship of Robert E. Gard
American Folklife Center Includes over three million photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and moving images. It consists of documentation of traditional culture from all around the world including the earliest field recordings made in the 1890s on wax cylinder through recordings made using digital technology. It is America's first national archive of traditional life, and one of the oldest and largest of such repositories in the world.
Open Folklore (American Folklore Society and Indiana University Libraries) Collection of folklore scholarship: Books, journal articles, grey literature and websites.

Bibliographies:

Peel's Prairie Provinces Peel's Prairie Provinces contains materials about the history and development of Canada's prairie provinces from earliest times to mid twentieth century. The searchable database contains >7000 titles; selected fulltext documents (largely monographic) have also been mounted. Additional fulltext materials are being added on a regular basis.
Internationale Volkskundliche Bibliographie = International folklore bibliography 1999 issue available free online
Call Number: GR 35 Z9 B58
Publication Date: 1939-1999
Annotated bibliography of the cultural history of the German-speaking community in Alberta, 1882-2000 : a project of the German-Canadian Association of Alberta
Call Number: FC 3850 G3 A566
2012-2013 Update Available Online. Search for earlier versions as well.

More article databases, maps, etc:

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window Indexes articles on Canadian & American history from prehistoric times to the present. Published since 1964.
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Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window Indexes journal articles and book chapters published from 1906-present.
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Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window Indexes over 1,700 journals as well as books and other reference sources in the humanities, published from 1975-present.
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eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window Cross-cultural database containing more than 350,000 pages of descriptive information on cultures and ethnic groups of the world. Source documents include books, articles, and dissertations.
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eHRAF Archaeology This link opens in a new window Cross-cultural database containing descriptive information on archaeological traditions of the world. Source documents include books, articles, and dissertations.
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William C. Wonders Map Collection Database This link opens in a new window The William C. Wonders Map Collection Database is an electronic index to the pre-1995 maps in the William C. Wonders Map Collection. Begun as an electronic version of the catalogue records in 26 historical handwritten binders located in the William C. Wonders Map Collection on the fourth floor of Cameron Library, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, it continues to be augmented by recently acquired and processed pre-1995 maps.
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Atlases, gazetteers and other cartographic reference materials are catalogued in The NEOS Libraries' Catalogue. Post-1994 monographic maps and new series in print or electronic format are catalogued in The NEOS Libraries' Catalogue. Some pre-1995 maps may also appear in the NEOS Libraries' Catalogue.
The airphoto collection of over one million items is not included in this database.

Selected Books

Archaeology & folklore
Call Number: CC 75.7 A724 1999
Creativity & tradition in folklore: new directions
Looking for lost lore: studies in folklore, ethnology & iconography
Call Number: E 98 F6 L26 2008
Putting folklore to use
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American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus
AT Types of Folktales The types of international folktales: a classification and bibliography, based on the system of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson Also availabe in print: GR 72.56 Z9 U84 2004 - Rutherford Library North 1st Floor Reference

Васнетсов: Гамаюн

Useful keywords & Subject terms

Ethnography
Ethnology
Oral Tradition
Traditions
Folk tales
Folk poetry

Intangible Cultural Heritage

Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (UNESCO)

Background Info

Motif-index of folk literature
Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature
Call Number: PN 41 E48 1998
Folklore: an encyclopedia of beliefs, customs, tales, music & art
Call Number: GR 35 F63 1997
Giants, Monsters & Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend & Myth
American folklore: an encyclopedia
Call Number: GR 101 A54 1996
Larousse Dictionary of World Folklore
Call Number: GR 35 J66 1995
A dictionary of symbols
Call Number: GR 931 C4413 1994
International dictionary of regional European ethnology & folklore
Call Number: GN 307 I62 1960
Dictionary of mythology, folklore & symbols
Call Number: GR 35 J65 1961 v.1-3

Round Index Indexes the details of 25,000 English-language traditional songs in books, journals, newspapers, manuscript collections, sound recordings, videos, websites, and so on. Also indexes songs that appeared in broadsides and other cheap print publications up to about 1920, and includes music hall songs and songs performed on radio before World War II.