Images in Folklore
Quick Links to E-Resources
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Alternate interface for the Harvard Library's online catalog.
- Anthropology Plus (RLG)
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See also the guide Using the Anthropological Literature E-Resource
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
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See also the guide Searching the Citation Indexes.
- MLA Bibliography
- Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Welcome
Please note: This Research Guide has been updated and the NEW VERSION IS AVAILABLE HERE. Please be aware that some links may be broken during this time.
Folklore is a wonderfully broad and interdisciplinary field, “the study of society, past or present, through its documents and cultural artifacts, its epics, ballads, folktales, legends, beliefs, and other cultural phenomena, including music, song, and dance,” as Harvard’s Program in Folklore and Mythology defines it.
Students and other researchers explore questions related to the study of folklore through courses in many different disciplines such as Anthropology, Literature, and Religion.
The Traditions research guide includes links to research databases and reference books on folklore-related topics, and more. Begin by going to one of the specific areas of the site --Narratives, Fairy Tales, Mythology, Oral Literature, Dance, Craft and Art, Ethnography, Ethnomusicology -- or by using the Search this Guide function.
For research assistance with topics in Folklore, or to make any suggestions or comments related to this guide, please contact Research Librarian Ramona Islam at Widener Library (see profile at right).
Folklore at Harvard
Academic Departments and Committees
- African and African American Studies
- Anthropology
- Celtic Languages and Literatures
- The Classics
- East Asian Languages and Civilizations
- English
- Folklore and Mythology
- Germanic Languages and Literatures
- History of Art and Architecture
- History and Literature
- Literature and Comparative Literature
- Music
- Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
- Romance Languages and Literatures
- Sanskrit and Indian Studies
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Study of Religion
Selected Faculty Publications (2005 - present)
Lisa T. Brooks
The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native space in the Northeast. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2008.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Michael Herzfeld:
Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Monti Moments: Men's Memories in the Heart of Rome. [videorecording] Filmed and produced by Michael Herzfeld; an En Masse Films Associated production. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media LLC, 2007.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2005.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Peter Machinist:
“Kingship and Divinity in Imperial Assyria, ” in Gary Beckman and Theodore J. Lewis, eds., Text, Artifact, and Image. Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion. Providence: Brown Judaic Studies vol. 346, 2006), pp. 152-188.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Catherine McKenna:
"Performing Penance and Poetic Performance in the Medieval Welsh Court". Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, 2007 Jan; 82 (1): 70-96.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Stephen Mitchell:
Gregory Nagy:
Homer the Classic. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Homer's Text and Language. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Kimberly C. Patton:
The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils: Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean. New York : Columbia University Press, 2007.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
"Introduction" in The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama. Edited by Eric Csapo, Margaret C. Miller. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Michael J. Puett:
Et al., Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity. Oxford, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Panagiotis Roilos:
C. P. Cavafy: The Economics of Metonymy. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2009.
HOLLIS Catalog RecordAmphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel. Washington, D.C., Center for Hellenic Studies, 2005.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
John Stauffer:
Ed., The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform. Amherst: Univ. of Mass. Prss, 2007.
HOLLIS Catalog RecordEd., Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of american Abolitionism. New York: New Press, 2006.
HOLLIS Catalog Record.
Maria Tatar:
Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood. New York: Norton, 2009.HOLLIS Catalog Record
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen.
Edited with an introduction and notes by Maria Tatar ; translations by Maria Tatar and Julie K. Allen. New York : W.W. Norton, 2008. HOLLIS Catalog Record
Jan Ziolkowski:
Ed., with Michael Palmer. The Virgilian Tradition: The First
Fifteen Hundred Years. New Haven: Putnam, 2008.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Trans., Letters of Peter Abelard: Beyond the Personal.
Washington, D.C.: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2008.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Solomon and Marcolf. Cambridge. Dept. of the Classics,
Harvard Univ., 2008.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Nota Bene: Reading Classics and Writing Melodies in the
Early Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past
of Wonderful Lies. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
2007.
HOLLIS Catalog Record
Events
This section includes both listings of
events at Harvard and of events elsewhere that may be of interest
to members of the Harvard community.
Calendars
American
Folk Art Museum Calendar
Boston
College Irish Studies
Folk
Arts Center of New England
Folk Music Calendar from WUMB
Folk Song Society of
Greater Boston
League for Advancement of New
England Storytelling
MIT Folk Dance Club
New England Folk Festival
Association
West African Dance in
Boston
Credits
Authors
Pam Matz, Research Librarian & Library
Liaison to the Programs of Folklore and Mythology and the Study of
Religion
Rm. 240, Widener Library
T: 617-495-8713
Elizabeth McKeigue, former Research Librarian & Library Liaison to the Departments of Celtic, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Credits
The authors of this site are very grateful to the following people who have helped to create this web resource.
Faculty Advisors
Katherine Chadbourne, Preceptor in Expository
Writing
Deborah Foster, Head Tutor & Director of Undergraduate
Studies and Senior Lecturer in Folklore and Mythology
Catherine McKenna, Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic
Languages and Literatures
Stephen Mitchell, Professor of Scandinavian and
Folklore
Maria Tatar, John J. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and
Literatures
Collaborating Librarians
Michael Blake, Electronic
Resources and Assistant Librarian, Wolbach
Library
Joe Bourneuf, Head of
Reference, Widener Library
Greg Finnegan, Associate
Librarian for Public Services and Head of Reference,
Tozzer Library
Michael J. Hemment, Research
Librarian & Head of Scholarly Research Initiatives,
Widener Library
Liza Vick, Music Reference and
Research Librarian, Loeb Music Library
Presidential Instructional Technology
Fellows
Victoria Chow, Graduate Student, Harvard School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences
Lahiru Jayatilaka, Harvard College
Special Thanks to
Enrique Diaz, Designer/Multimedia Specialist,
Harvard College Library
Susan Fliss, Associate Librarian
for Research and Instruction, Harvard College Library