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• Baltic Institute of Folklore (BIF) Home Page

  http://www.folklore.ee/BIF/
  The Institute was founded by the academic folkloric institutions of the three Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania - in 1995 to coordinate folklore studies and research. Includes archives, a newsletter, academic contacts, and conference information.

• Center for Folklore and Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania

  http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/
  Undergraduate and graduate programs in folklore and folklife. Events announcements and links.

• Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture

  http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/
  A peer-reviewed internet and hadcopy journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture; based at the University of California, but global in scope.

• Folklore Program

  http://folklore.uoregon.edu/
  Course description, information on their masters and doctorate programs, and faculty pages.

• Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

  http://www.indiana.edu/~folklore/
  Established 1962 by Stith Thompson and Richard Dorson; specialities include language and literature, folk and traditional arts, and ritual and belief.

• Indiana University Folklore Collection

  http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=329
  The Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Folklore and Ethnomusicology Collection home page contains general Folklore references, a list of links to other sites, and a description of the Collection.

• Jewish Folklore in Israel

  http://www.folklore.org.il/
  A history of the development of academic Folklore studies in Israel with additional links to many other sites, both Jewish and Folkloric.

• Memorial University of Newfoundland Department of Folkore

  http://www.mun.ca/folklore/about/
  Presents information about bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in folklore, including course descriptions. It also provides faculty, staff and student contact numbers and related folklore links.

• Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature

  http://www.chs.harvard.edu/mpc/
  One of the largest repositories of South Slavic heroic song; located at Widener Library, Harvard University; online exhibition of photos, song transcriptions, and video.

• University of Missouri Center for Studies in Oral Tradition

  http://oraltradition.missouri.edu/
  Academic site fostering the interdisciplinary growth of Oral Tradition Studies, a highly complex field derived from the older and more defined areas of folklore, anthropology, literary studies, and linguistics.

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Curriculum in Folklore

  http://www.unc.edu/depts/folklore/
  Program description, searchable manuscripts, and news.

• Western Kentucky University Programs in Folk Studies and Anthropology

  http://www.wku.edu/folkstudies/
  Description of course studies and a reading list.

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