Reserve your exhibit room space and advertisement space in the print program for the 2026 Annual Meeting in Asheville by August 1. A new digital advertising option is also available with an October 1 deadline.
AFS is seeking a limited number of in-person volunteers to help with supporting the annual meeting this year. Applications are due August 31, 2026.
Book your room at the AFS Annual Meeting hotel in Asheville now!
The latest JAF includes essays on a Mexican conflict zone as a site for a festival and tourism, Korean tourists dressing in rented traditional dress, occupational folk humor in a prison library, and obituaries and reviews of recent work in the field.
In A Singing Game (University Press of Mississippi), Jeanne Pitre Soileau traces “When I Was a Baby” through its many permutations, from its earliest appearance in folklore to variations uploaded to YouTube, and introduces the varied folklorists who collected it through its history.
Charles "Gordon" McCann, nationally acknowledged as a premiere preservationist of traditional Ozarks fiddle music and other facets of Missouri-Arkansas hill country culture, died on July 17, 2026 at the age of ninety-four.
Vernacular Religion in the Iranian Diaspora (University of Wisconsin Press) is a detailed, respectful ethnography that reaches beyond the binary of piety and resistance and offers new and nuanced understandings of Iranian American lived religion.
As you prepare for the new academic year, those of you who teach can provide an important—and easily accomplished—service to AFS. Support AFS by assigning online access to JAF.
Arts Midwest is now accepting applications for the Midwest Culture Bearers Award. This year, eighteen awardees will each receive $5,000 to support their work. Applications are due August 18, 2026.
The Folklore of Democracy (University Press of Mississippi) explores how cultural practices serve as both a foundation for democratic engagement and, at times, tools for division.
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