New Year, New Link Dump!

Let's get this new year started right by cleaning my cache of recently highlighted folklore links:

• First off, I really love the postings from the Facebook profile Slavic Folklore. Follow her, she always has something interesting.
• Every so often NPR posts something of interest to the folklorist. Here is a story about the ballad in America.
• Someone found a Face Jug.
• Are you looking for a Public Folklorist job in Kentucky? Then click here.
• The American Folklife Center has a new incoming director. Congratulations, Dr. Petersen!
• Honestly, I could not get through these articles. And I don't have the energy or the inclination to correct them. Where knowledge rules, my ass!
• Nice bio and brief interview with folklorist (and Virginia native!) Anand Prahlad.
• What is Afrofuturism? Anything with Sun Ra gets my stamp of approval.
• As I can relate, Gerald Hausman was first introduced to the importance of the Wolf in Cub Scouts. Now if someone can only write a book about the importance of the Webelo in Native American culture.
• Call for papers! Ethnology at the Crossroads. Get cracking, start writing and submit.
• I like when people put their theses online. For free! It's like getting a free book! Congrats to Dr. Lewis for finishing her degree! I look forward to reading the thesis, "Aboriginal Britain"
• Review of "The Story Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Post-Colonial Folkloristics" was recently posted to the Journal of Folklore Research website.
• Speaking of online folklore journals, check out the latest ish of the Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, which includes pdfs which can be downloaded onto whatever you do your reading on nowadays.
• New book coming out on Dagestani folk tales.
• Architects design your favorite homes from folk tales.
• This book won the Russian Booker. I want to read it. It is said to have folkloristic overtones.

I only engage in the laziest type of blogging!

While 'writing' this post I was listening to the awesome bootleg recording of Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan "Kickin' It." I recommend that you procure yourself a copy if you are a fan of either.