Yup’ik men’s dance fans by Elena Charles of Alaska. Charles has received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Photograph courtesy of the Alaska State Council on the Arts. From the Masters of Traditional Arts DVD-ROM, produced by Alan Govenar and published by ABC-CLIO.

National and International Folklore Organizations

Follow the links below to the web sites of national and international organizations involved with folklore and traditional culture.

American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Association canadienne d'ethnologie et de folklore/Folklore Studies Association of Canada

Australian Folklore Network

Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and Smithsonian Global Sound

China Folklore Society

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde

English Folk Dance and Song Society

Folk and Traditional Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts

The Folklore Fellows

The Folklore Society (United Kingdom)

The Folklore Society of Japan

Folkstreams

Fund for Folk Culture

International Council for Traditional Music

International Society for Folk Narrative Research

National Council for the Traditional Arts

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Folklore Support Centre (India)

Oral History Association

Society for Ethnomusicology

Society for Folk Life Studies

Société internationale d'ethnologie et de folklore/International Society for Ethnology and Folklore

StoryCorps

UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization)

Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Western States Folklore Society

World Intellectual Property Organization