Case studies and best practice reports created by recipients of the Consultancy and Professional Development grants project to share the lessons learned during their funded work. These reports cover a wide variety of issues and challenges in folk and traditional arts work.
Research
A guide to promoting and sustaining folklore work in the United States, including tips specific to nonprofit organizations, higher education, independent folklorists, and community scholars.
A searchable reference tool to locate the vocabulary that can be used to improve access to information about folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and related fields.
A web portal that provides access to online, open-access resources for folklore studies, including core journals of the field, open-access journals, digitized books, conference proceedings and papers, educational materials, and gray literature, including a collection of AFS publications like annual programs.
This AFS Fellow's roundtable from March 10, 2021, explores key conceptual issues and challenges in heritage theory, policy and practice, the speakers outlining current ways of thinking about heritage, illuminated by their own experiences with public practice, field research and policy.