Links
There are many on-line scholarly resources pertinent to SIEF members, which we have categorized under the headings below. This list is under development and we welcome suggestions for further additions. Other special interest sections will be added as time goes by. Please check back regularly to see new categories and new listings.
Websites of general interest are categorized here under the following headings:
- Websites related to disciplines
- University Institutes
- Other academic institutes
- Organisations / Research Groups / Commissions
- Journals / Series
- Libraries
- Publishers
- Museums
- WIPO
You will find other relevant information (mainly on German speaking Volkskunde) on www.volo.org .
Nota bene.
This directory of online resources has been compiled and annotated by the SIEF Web site editor, who is solely
responsible for the selection of links and the opinions expressed in annotations. No entry or comment herein
reflects an official position of SIEF, although all entries and comments are offered in the hope that they will
serve as aids to scholarly research in ethnology and folklore.
Websites related to disciplines
- EASA, European Association of Social Anthropologists
- The International Association for Southeast European Anthropology
University Institutes
- Aberdeen, Elphinstone Institute
- Augsburg, Europäische Ethnologie/Volkskunde
- Bamberg, Europäische Ethnologie
- Basel, Europäische Ethnologie
- Bergen, University Bergen, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion
- Berlin, Europäische Ethnologie
- Bloomington, Indiana University, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
- Bonn, Abteilung Kulturanthropologie/Volkskunde
- Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu
- Edinburgh, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CELTIC & SCOTTISH STUDIES
- Eichstätt, Europäischen Ethnologie / Volkskunde
- Folklore program at the University of California, Berkeley
- The University of Oregon FolkloreProgram
- Frankfurt/M, Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie
- Freiburg, Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie
- Göttingen, Kulturanthropologie/Europäische Ethnologie
- Graz, Volkskunde/Europäische Ethnologie
- Hamburg, Volkskunde
- Folklore and Mythology at Harvard
- Jena, Volkskunde/Kulturgeschichte
- Kiel, Europäische Ethnologie/Volkskunde
- Copenhagen University, Europæisk Etnologi
- Köln, Institut für Europäische Musikethnologie
- Mainz, Kulturanthropologie/Volkskunde
- Marburg, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie / Kulturwissenschaft
- München, Institut für Volkskunde/Europäische Ethnologie
- Münster, Volkskunde/Europäische Ethnologie
- The University of Sheffield, Archives of Cultural Tradition
- Neuchâtel, L'Institut d'ethnologie
- Passau, Volkskunde
- Pennsylvania, Department of Folklore and Folklife
- Department of European Ethnology (Szeged, Hungary)
- Tübingen, Empirische Kulturwissenschaft
- Turku, Department of Folkloristics
- UCLA World Arts and Cultures
- Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (Uppsala University)
- Wien, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie
- Würzburg, Europäische Ethnologie / Volkskunde
- Zürich, Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaft
Other academic institutes
- The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress
- Amsterdam, Meertens Instituut
- Brussels, FARO, Vlaams Steunpunt voor Cultureel Erfgoed
- Tartu, The Department of Folkloristics (FD) of the Estonian Literary Museum
- Göttingen, Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film
- Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens
- München, Institut für Volkskunde der Kommission für Bayerische Landesgeschichte bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- München, Institut für Zeitgeschichte
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Organisations / Research Groups / Commissions
- American Anthropological Association
- American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress
- American Folklore Society
- Amsterdam Center for European Ethnology (ACEE)
- Archives of FOLKLORE(AT)LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU
- Baltic Institute of Folklore (includes information about folklore and ethnology institutions in Latvia and Lithuania)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft
- Freiburg, Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik
- Dresden, Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde e.V.
- Enzyklopädie des Märchens
- Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music Contents
- European Association of Social Anthropologists
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- The Folklore Society (University College, London)
- Hamburger Gesellschaft für Volkskunde
- Hessische Vereinigung für Volkskunde
- International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
- International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR)
- Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Wien
- International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
- Kommission für Erzählforschung in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (DGV)
- Kommission für Volksdichtung
- Arnhem, Kenniscentrum Immaterieel Erfgoed Nederland
- Norsk Etnologisk Gransking
- Religious and Alternative Healing Research Platform (RAHRP)
- Société d'ethnologie française
- Society for the Anthropology of Europe
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde SGV
- Tartu Nefa
- Brussels, FARO. Vlaams steunpunt voor cultureel erfgoed
- Verein für Kulturwissenschaft und Kulturanalyse, Wien
- Volkskundliche Kommission für Sachsen-Anhalt
- Volkskundlichen Kommission für Westfalen
Journals / Series
- Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde
- Contemporary Legend
- Culture & Tradition
- Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture (ASSOCIATIVE SIEF PARTNER)
- Volkskunde - tijdschrift over de cultuur van het dagelijkse leven
- Electronic Journal of Folklore
- Ethnologia Europaea
- Fabula. Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung
- Folk Life
- Folklore (UK)
- Folklore: An Electronic Journal of Folklore (Estonia)
- Folklore Fellows' Communications (Finland)
- kommunikation@gesellschaft: Soziologie - Telematik - Kulturwissenschaft
- Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies (Detroit)
- Faro/tijdschrift over cultureel erfgoed
- TSANTSA Revue de la Société Suisse d' Ethnologie
- Vokus. Volkskundlich-kulturwissenschaftliche Schriften (Hamburg)
- Zeitschrift für Volkskunde. Halbjahresschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde
Libraries
Publishers
Museums
- Arnhem (NL): Nederlands Openluchtmuseum
- Bern: Museum für Kommunikation
- Detmold: Westfälisches Freilichtmuseum Detmold Landesmuseum für Volkskunde
- Ellwangen: Alamannenmuseum
- Enkhuizen (NL): Zuiderzeemuseum
- Estonian National Museum
- Ghent
- Hohenfelden: Thüringer Freilichtmuseum Hohenfelden
- Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum
- Molfsee, Freilichtmuseum Molfsee - Landesmuseum für Volkskunde
- Konz: Volkskunde- und Freilichtmuseum Roscheider Hof
- St Fagans National Museum of History
UNESCO
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
WIPO Traditional Knowledge Website
Related websites
- Traditional Knowledge: Operational Terms and Definitions
- Savoirs traditionnels: Terminologie et définitions
- Los conocimientos tradicionales: Definiciones y términos
- Terri Janke. 2003. Minding Culture: Case-Studies on Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions. Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization.
- P.V. Valsala G. Kutty. 2002. National Experiences with the Protection of Expressions of Folklore/Traditional Cultural Expressions: India,Insia and the Philippines. Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization.
- Intellectual Property Rights: Culture as Commodity (Cultural Survival special issue)
- Joseph Githaiga. 1998. Intellectual Property Law and the Protection of Indigenous Folklore and Knowledge. E-Law: Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law 5(2)
- Traditional knowledge of biodiversity in Asia-Pacific: Problems of Piracy & Protection (GRAIN and Kalpavriksh 2002)
- Graham Dutfield. 2002. Protecting Traditional Knowledge and Folklore: A review of progress in diplomacy and policy formulation. Geneva: UNCTAD / ICTSD.
- Paul Kuruk. Protecting Folklore under Modern Intellectual Property Regimes: A Reappraisal of the Tensions between Individual and Communal Rights in Africa and the United States. American University Law Review 48:769-850.
- Illegal Art: Copywrongs
- Collection of online resources on traditional knowledge and intellectual property.
- The Mataatua Declaration on Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples