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Folklore : Books and Reference Sources

This guide presents resources and tips useful for students in folklore classes. Topics covered include folklore, folklife, and folkways.

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Thomas Durkin
Social Work / Social Sciences
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Doing Folklore Research

Books about folklore can be located by using a number of different databases.

  • Try the UW-Madison catalog to see what our libraries own.
  • Try WorldCat to find books and other materials owned in libraries across the U.S. as well as many countries around the world.

Are you looking for book reviews? Try this library guide to Finding Book Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

General Folklore Reference Sources

Books about folklore can be located by using a number of different databases.

  • Try the UW-Madison catalog to see what our libraries own.
  • Try WorldCat to find books and other materials owned in libraries across the U.S. as well as many countries around the world.

Regional Folklore Reference Books and Motif Indexes

Books about folklore can be located by using a number of different databases.

  • Try the UW-Madison catalog to see what our libraries own.
  • Try WorldCat to find books and other materials owned in libraries across the U.S. as well as many countries around the world.