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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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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.
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The Dynamics of Folklore by Barre Toelken
ISBN: 9780585039329Publication Date: 1996Available online through EBSCOhost eBook Collection and Project Muse eBooks -
Folklife and fieldwork : An Introduction to Cultural Documentation by Stephen Winick and Peter Bartis
Call Number: GR45.5 B371 2002 (College Library) & LC 39.9: 3/2002 (Wisconsin Historical Society Library)Publication Date: 2002Also available online through the Library Catalog -
Folklore and the Internet by Trevor J. Blank (Editor)
Call Number: GR44 E43 F65 2009 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 9780874217506Publication Date: 2009Available online through Project Muse, ProQuest Ebook Central, & others -
Folklore In All of Us, in All We Do by Untiedt, Kenneth L
ISBN: 9781574412239Publication Date: 2006Available online through Project Muse, ProQuest Ebook Central, & others -
Folkloristics : an introduction by Robert A. Georges and Michael Owen Jones
Call Number: GR40 G46 1995 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 0253209943Publication Date: 1995 -
Handbook of Oral History by Thomas L. Charlton (Editor); Lois E. Myers (Editor); Rebecca Sharpless (Editor); Leslie Roy Ballard (As told to)
Call Number: D16.14 H36 2006 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 0759102295Publication Date: 2006 -
Interpreting folklore by Alan Dundes
Call Number: GR66 D87 (College Library & Memorial Library)ISBN: 025320240XPublication Date: 1980 -
Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions by Martha Sims; Martine Stephens
ISBN: 9780874218442Publication Date: 2011Available online through Project Muse eBooks -
Meaning of folklore : the analytical essays of Alan Dundes by Alan Dundes
Call Number: GR71 D88 2007 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 0874216834Publication Date: 2007Available online through JSTOR & Project Muse -
Tape-recorded interview : a manual for field workers in folklore and oral history by Edward D. Ives
Call Number: GR45.5 I93 1995 (College Library & Memorial Library)ISBN: 0870498789Publication Date: 1995
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.
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Brewer’s dictionary of phrase & fable
Call Number: PN43 B65 1999 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0304350966Publication Date: 1999 -
Cassell’s encyclopedia of queer myth, symbol, and spirit : gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender lore by Randy P. Conner, David Hatfield Sparks, Mariya Sparks ; foreword by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Call Number: HQ75.5 C66 1997 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0304337609Publication Date: 1997 -
Dictionary of folklore by David Pickering
Call Number: GR35 P5 1999 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0816042500Publication Date: 1999 -
Encyclopedia of folklore and literature by Editors, Mary Ellen Brown, Bruce A. Rosenberg
Call Number: PN41 E48 1998 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 1576070034Publication Date: 1998 -
Encyclopedia of urban legends by Jan Harold Brunvand
Call Number: GR105.34 B78 2002 (College Library & Historical Society Library)ISBN: 0393323587Publication Date: 2001 -
Encyclopedia of women’s folklore and folklife by Liz Locke, Theresa A. Vaughan, Pauline Greenhill
Call Number: GR470 E63 2009 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0313340501Publication Date: 2009 -
Ethnic and vernacular music, 1898-1960 : a resource and guide to recordings by Paul Vernon
Call Number: ML156.4 F5 V47 1995 (Mills Library Reference)ISBN: 0313295530Publication Date: 1995 -
Facts on File encyclopedia of world mythology and legend by Anthony S. Mercatante ; revised by James R. Dow
Call Number: BL303 M45 2004 (College Library & Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0816047081Publication Date: 2004 -
Folklore: an encyclopedia of beliefs, customs, tales, music, and art by Charlie T. McCormick (Editor); Kim Kennedy White
ISBN: 1598842412Publication Date: 2010Three Volumes
Available online through ProQuest Ebook Central -
Larousse dictionary of world folklore by Alison Jones
Call Number: GR35 J664 1995 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0752300121Publication Date: 1995 -
Motif-index of folk-literature; a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends. by Stith Thompson
Call Number: GR67 T52 (Memorial Library Reference)Publication Date: 1955-58Six Volumes -
Mythical zoo : an encyclopedia of animals in world myth, legend, and literature by Boria Sax
Call Number: GR705 S344 2001 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 1576076121Publication Date: 2001 -
Myths and legends of the world by John M. Wickersham, editor in chief
Call Number: BL311 M97 2000 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0028654390Publication Date: 2000Four Volumes -
Travel legend and lore : an encyclopedia by Ronald H. Fritze
Call Number: G151 F75 1998 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 087436759XPublication Date: 1998 -
The types of international folktales : a classification and bibliography, based on the system of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson by Uther, Hans-Jörg
Call Number: GR1 F55 no.284-286 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 9514109643Publication Date: 2004 -
Types of the Folk Tale by Antti Aarne
Call Number: GR1 F55 no.180-184 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 9780833744890Publication Date: 1961
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.
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African folklore : an encyclopedia by Philip M. Peek and Kwesi Yankah, editors
Call Number: GR350 A33 2004 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 041593933XPublication Date: 2004Also available online through ProQuest Ebook Central -
American folklife : a commonwealth of cultures by Mary Hufford
Call Number: LC 39.2: Z 999/1 (Wisconsin Historical Society Library)Publication Date: 1991Also available online through US Federal Government Documents -
American Folklore by Jan Harold Brunvand (Editor)
Call Number: GR101 A54 1996 (Memorial Library Reference, Historial Society Library Reading Room & College Library)ISBN: 0815307519Publication Date: 1996 -
American musical traditions by Jeff Todd Titona and Bob Carlin
Call Number: ML3551 A53 2002 (Mills Library Reference)ISBN: 002864624XPublication Date: 2002Five volumes -
Analysis of children’s folktale collections with an accompanying motif-index of juvenile folktale collections by Margaret Read MacDonald.
Call Number: MICROFILM MacDonald (iSchool Library)Publication Date: 1979 -
Brewer’s dictionary of Irish phrase & fable by Sean McMahon and Jo O’Donoghue
Call Number: PE2406 M36 2004 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0304363340Publication Date: 2004 -
Dictionary and catalog of African American folklife of the south by Sherman E. Pyatt and Alan Johns
Call Number: GR110 A47 P93 1999 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0313279993Publication Date: 1999 -
Dictionary of Albanian religion, mythology, and folk culture by Robert Elsie
Call Number: GR251 E44 2001 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0814722148Publication Date: 2001 -
Dictionary of English Folklore by Jacqueline Simpson & Steve Roud
ISBN: 0191726648Publication Date: 2003Available as an eBook through Oxford Reference Online Premium -
Dictionary of Jewish Lore and Legend by Alan Unterman
Call Number: GR98 U68 1991 (Memorial Library Reference & Art Library Reference)ISBN: 0500110220Publication Date: 1991Also available online through Credo Reference -
Encyclopedia of Indian folk music by Amrita Priyamvada
Call Number: ML338 P75 2009 (Mills Library Reference)Publication Date: 2009 -
Encyclopedia of American folk art by Gerard C. Wertkin, editor
Call Number: NK805 E6 2004 (Art Library Reference)ISBN: 0415929865Publication Date: 2004Published in association with the American Folk Art Museum.
Also available online through ProQuest Ebook Central -
Encyclopedia of American folklife by Simon J. Bronner, editor
Call Number: GR105 E53 2006 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0765680521Publication Date: 2006 -
Encyclopedia of Philippine folk beliefs and customs by Francisco R. Demetrio
Call Number: GR325 D442 1991 (Memorial Library Reference)Publication Date: 1991 -
Folk traditions of the Arab world : a guide to motif classification by Hasan M. El-Shamy
Call Number: GR268 A73 E4 1995 (Memorial Library Reference)Publication Date: 1995 -
Guide to Australian folklore : from Ned Kelly to Aeroplane Jelly by Gwenda Beed Davey and Graham Seal
Call Number: GR365 D38 2003 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0731810759Publication Date: 2003 -
Guide to early field recordings (1900-1949) at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology by Keeling, Richard
Call Number: ML156.4 F5 K43 1990 (Mills Library Reference)ISBN: 0520097203Publication Date: 1991 -
Indeks motiva narodnih pesama balkanskih Slovena by Branislav Krstić
Call Number: AS346 B53 Knj.555 (Memorial Library)Publication Date: 1984 -
Kathā abhiprāya anukramaṇikā kośa : bhāga "ka" evaṃ "khā" by Rāmagopāla Goyala
Call Number: GR305 G585 1999 (Memorial Library)Publication Date: 1999 -
Le conte populaire flamand. Catalogue analytique et répertoire des épisodes et éléments des contes "Motif-index." by Maurits de Meyer
Call Number: GR1 F55 no.200-203 (Memorial Library)Publication Date: 1968 -
Lore of Ireland : an encyclopaedia of myth, legend and romance by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin
Call Number: GR153.5 O156 2006 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 1843832151Publication Date: 2006 -
Motif-index of early Icelandic literature by Inger M. Boberg
Call Number: Z2556 B88 (Memorial Library Reference)Publication Date: 1966Volume 26 and 27 available through Memorial regular stacks shelving (PT7113 B5 v.26-27) -
Motif-index of early Irish literature by Tom Peete Cross
Call Number: GR10 I5 no.7 (Memorial Library)Publication Date: 1952 -
Motif-index of folk narratives in the Pan-Hispanic romancero by Harriet Goldberg
Call Number: PQ6091 G57 2000 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0866982485Publication Date: 2000 -
Motif-index of German secular narratives from the beginning to 1400 by Austrian Academy of Sciences
Call Number: PT171 M62 2005 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 3110184915Publication Date: 20057 volume set -
Motif-index of Latvian folktales and legends by Lena Neuland
Call Number: GR1 F55 no.229-231 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 9514103912Publication Date: 1981 -
Motif-index of Luis Rosado Vega’s Mayan legends by Jim C. Tatum
Call Number: GR1 F55 no.271 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 9514108434Publication Date: 2000 -
Motif-index of traditional Polynesian narratives by Bacil F. Kirtley
Call Number: GR380 K5 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 0870224166Publication Date: 1971Also available online through JSTOR eBooks -
Motif index of The thousand and one nights by Hasan M. El-Shamy
Call Number: PJ7737 E38 2006 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 025334834XPublication Date: 2006 -
Mythical West : an encyclopedia of legend, lore, and popular culture by Richard W. Slatta
Call Number: GR109 S53 2001 (Historical Society Library Reading Room)ISBN: 1576071510Publication Date: 2001 -
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Carol Crown
Call Number: Available online through ProQuest eBooks and Project Muse EbooksISBN: 9781469608006Publication Date: 2013 -
Oxford companion to Australian folklore by Gwenda Beed Davey and Graham Seal
Call Number: GR365 O942 1993 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0195530578Publication Date: 1993 -
Sources of Irish traditional music, c. 1600-1855 by editor, Aloys Fleischmann
Call Number: ML128 F74 F54 1998 (Mills Library Reference)ISBN: 082406948XPublication Date: 1998 -
South Asian folklore : an encyclopedia : Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka by Margaret A. Mills, Peter J. Claus and Sarah Diamond, editors
Call Number: GR302 S68 2003 (Memorial Library Reference)ISBN: 0415939194Publication Date: 2003 -
Type and motif-index of the folktales of England and North America by Ernest W. Baughman
Call Number: GR10 I5 no.20 (Memorial Library)Publication Date: 1967 -
Type and motif index of Finnish belief legends and memorates by Marjatta Jauhiainen
Call Number: GR1 F55 no.267 (Memorial Library)ISBN: 9514108353Publication Date: 1998 -
Type and motif index of Japanese folk-literature by Hiroko Ikeda
Call Number: GR1 F55 no.208-211 (Memorial Library)Publication Date: 1971 -
World of African music by Ronnie Graham
Call Number: ML3502.5 G73 1992 (Mills Library Reference)ISBN: 0745305520Publication Date: 1992