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The Folklore archive contains "the oldest and largest record of urban folk traditions in the United States" and consists of field research projects carried out by Wayne State University students. The archive mostly consists of transcripts of oral interviews conducted - and photographs taken - by the students as part of their research.
It is a member of the Canadian Council of Archives and the Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives. MUNFLA was founded in 1968 by folklorist Herbert Halpert, head of the Folklore Department, and his wife, researcher-librarian Violetta Maloney Halpert, [1] as a joint-venture by the Folklore and English departments at Memorial University.
William Albert "Bert" Wilson (September 23, 1933 – April 25, 2016) [3] was a scholar of Mormon folklore. [4]: 2 The "father of Mormon folklore" [5] helped found and organize folklore archives at both Utah State University (USU) and Brigham Young University (BYU).
In 1983, UNC purchased the John Edwards Memorial Collection, and, in the fall of 1986, the UNC Folklore Archives and the JEMC were combined to form the Southern Folklife Collection. The SFC officially opened for research during the Sounds of the South conference at UNC in April 1989. Australian collector and discographer John Edwards
The BYU Folklore collection was started by William A. Wilson, a professor at the university. He was given a small office space to begin a folklore archive. In 1995 this archive hired its first full permanent archivist to oversee the collection. When Wilson retired, this archive became part of the Harold B. Lee Library. [30]
Biographies of Kūya were written by his friends and followers Jakushin and Minamoto-no-Tamenori, and Number 18 of the Ryōjin Hishō derives from 'Kūya's Praise'. [14] [17] The late tenth-century collection of biographies of those who had attained rebirth in the Pure Land, the Nihon ōjō gokuraki ki, attributes to Kūya the devotion of all Japan to the nembutsu. [16]
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. was created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife". [1] The center includes the Archive of Folk Culture, established at the library in 1928 as a repository for American folk music.
Kunio Yanagita (Japanese: 柳田 國男, Hepburn: Yanagita Kunio, July 31, 1875 – August 8, 1962) was a Japanese author, scholar, and folklorist.He began his career as a bureaucrat, but developed an interest in rural Japan and its folk traditions.