Flower garden quilt by Mealii Kalama of Hawaii. Cotton applique, 89" x 81", ca. 1988. Kalama has received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Photograph by Dudley Smith, courtesy of the Denver Museum of Natural History. From the Masters of Traditional Arts DVD-ROM, produced by Alan Govenar and published by ABC-CLIO.
 

Resources

Sources used in the creation of the Ethnographic Thesaurus.

Thesaurus Construction
Reference/General Resource
General Folklore
Religion
Medecine
Performing Arts
Entertainment: Games
Art and Architecture
Language
Literature
Music
Musical Instruments
Dance
Material Culture
Costume
Foodways
Workers/Occupations/Transportation
Space and Place


Thesaurus Construction

Aitchison, Jean, Alan Gilchrist, and David Bawden. Thesaurus Construction and Use: A Practical Manual. 4th ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.

Batty, David. "Microcomputers in Index Language Design and Development." Microcomputers for Information Management 1, no. 4 (1984): 303-12.

-----. "Thesaurus Construction and Maintenance: A Survival Kit." Database 12, no.1 (1989): 13-20.

-----. "Words, Words, Words." Database 11, no. 4 (988): 109-12.

-----. "WWW -- Wealth, Weariness or Waste: Controlled Vocabulary and Thesauri in Support of Online Information Access." D-Lib Magazine 4 (November 1998). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november98/11batty.html

Blair, D. C., and M. E. Maron. "Evaluation of Retrieval Effectiveness for a Full-Text Document-Retrieval System." Communications of the ACM 28, no. 3 (1985): 289-99.

-----. "Full-Text Information Retrieval: Further Analysis and Clarification." Information Processing & Management 26, no. 3 (1990): 437-47.

Foskett, D. J. The Construction of a Faceted Classification for a Special Subject. London: Butterworth, 1959. http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10866&page=867

Kerst, Catherine Hiebert. "The Ethnographic Thesaurus: Creation of an Archival Tool." IASA Journal (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives). No. 27 (July 2006): 25-31. http://et.afsnet.org/downloads/ETPaper_IASAJournal.pdf

Lancaster, F.W. Vocabulary Control for Information Retrieval. 2nd ed. Arlington, VA: Information Resources Press, 1986.

National Information Standards Organization. Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies: An American National Standard. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press, 2006.

Vickery, B.C. Faceted Classification: A Guide to the Construction and Use of Special Schemes, London: Aslib, 1968.

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Reference/General resources

Association of Research Libraries. Thesaurus http://db.arl.org/thesaurus/ah.html

The Chicago Manual of Style. 14th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World. http://www.ethnologue.com/search_db.asp

The Free Dictionary/Thesaurus. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Dictionary.htm Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names. http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/index.html

JSTOR (Journal Storage): The Scholarly Journal Archive. http://www.jstor.org/ Kirkpatrick, Betty, ed. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. New ed. Harlow, UK: Longman, 1987.

Lagassé, Paul, ed. The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6 ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Library of Congress, Cataloging Policy and Support Office. Library of Congress Subject Headings. 30th ed. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2007. http://authorities.loc.gov/

MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures. Electronic format. New York: The Modern Language Association of America. Available through EBSCO Information Services. http://www.epnet.com

Murdock, George Peter. Outline of World Cultures. 6th rev. ed. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files, 1983.

Oxford English dictionary. Online ed. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. http://dictionary.oed.com

Oxford Reference Online. http://www.oxfordreference.com

UNESCO Thesaurus. http://www2.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/

United States Geological Survey. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/index.html

United States National Geospacial-Intelligence Agency. GEOnet Names Server. http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html

Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. 9th edition. Springfield, Massachusetts: G. and C. Merriam Company, 1983.

Wikipedia. http://wikipedia.org/

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General Folklore

American Folklore Society. Program and Abstracts [for annual meetings].

Bauman, Richard, ed. Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments: A Communications-Centered Handbook. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Brown, Mary Ellen, and Bruce A. Rosenberg, eds. Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998.

Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction. 4th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

-----, ed., American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1996.

Coffin, Tristram P. and Hennig Cohen, eds. Folklore in America: Tales, Songs, Superstitions, Proverbs, Riddles, Games, Folk Drama and Folk Festivals, with 17 Folk Melodies. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986. First published 1966 by Doubleday.

Dorson , Richard M., ed. Handbook of American Folklore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

Dundes, Alan. The Study of Folklore. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentiss-Hall, 1965.

Feintuch, Burt, ed. Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001.

Folklore, vol. 5 of MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures. New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 1981- .

Folklore Studies Association of Canada/ L'Association canadienne d'ethnologie et de folklore. Programme and Abstracts [for annual meetings].

Georges, Robert A., and Michael Owen Jones. Folkloristics: An Introduction. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1995.

Green, Thomas A., ed. Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1997.

Jackson, Bruce, Michael Taft, and Harvey Axlerod, eds. The Centennial Index: 100 Years of the Journal of American Folklore. Washington: American Folklore Society, 1988.

Journal of American Folklore. 1888- .

Leach, Maria, ed. Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend. Jerome Fried, associate editor. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984. Reprint of the 1972 edition.

Locke, Liz, and Theresa Vaughan, eds. The Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming. [List of head words, see http://www.artlore.net/ffcarchives/2002_11_01_archives.html]

Simpson, Jacqueline, and Steve Roud, eds. A Dictionary of English Folklore. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Society for Ethnomusicology. Program and Abstracts [for annual meetings].

Szwed, John F., ed. Afro-American Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography of Materials from North, Central, and South America, and the West Indies. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978.

Toelken, Barre. The Dynamics of Folklore. Revised and expanded ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1996.

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Religion

Jaynes, Julian. The Origin Of Consciousness in The Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

Lessa, William A., and Evon Z. Vogt, eds. Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach. 4th ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1979.

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Medicine

Online Archive of American Folk Medicine. http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/

United States National Institutes of Health. National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/

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Performing Arts

Kennedy, Dennis, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2003. www.oxford-theatreandperformance.com/

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Entertainment: Games

Caillois, Roger. Man, Play, and Games. Translated by Meyer Barash. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Cliff, J. M. "On Relationships between Folk Music and Folk Games." Western Folklore 51 (1992): 129-51.

Daiken, L. H. "Children's Games: A Bibliography." Folklore 61 (1950): 218-22.

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Art/Architecture

ArtLex: Art Dictionary http://www.artlex.com./

Boas, Franz. Primitive Art. New edition. New York: Dover Publications, 1955.

Getty Research Institute. Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online. http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/

Grove Art Online http://www.groveart.com/index.html

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I). Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1995. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/

-----. Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms. (TGM II). Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2004. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm2/

Peiry, Lucienne. Art Brut: The Origins of Outsider Art. Translated by J. Frank. Paris: Flammarion, 2001.

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Language

Akmajian, Adrian, Richard A. Demers, Ann K. Farmer, and Robert M. Harnish. Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication. 4th ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.

Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Fasold, Ralph and Jeffrey Connor-Linton. An Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Fromkin, Victora and Robert Rodman. An Introduction To Language, 6th edition. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1997.

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Literature

Aarne, Antti. The Types of the Folk-Tale: A Classification and Bibliography. Translated and enlarged by Stith Thompson. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1987.

Baldick, Chris. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t56&authstatuscode=200

Bennett, Gillian, and Paul Smith, eds., Contemporary Legend: A Folklore Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993.

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in 18 Volumes. http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

Leeming, David Adams, ed. Storytelling Encyclopedia: Historical, Cultural, and Multiethnic Approaches to Oral Traditions Around the World. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1997.

Lynch, Jack. Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/index.html

Mercatante, Anthony S, ed. The Facts on File Encyclopedia Of World Mythology And Legend. 2nd ed. Revised by James R. Dow. New York: Facts on File, 2004.

Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1995.

The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Online edition. http://www.oxfordreference.com

Poetry Portal. http://www.poetry-portal.com/styles10.html

Sydow, Carl W. von. Selected Papers on Folklore [by] C. W. v. Sydow: Published on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1948.

Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. Berkeley: New York: AMS Press, 1979. First published 1946 by Dryden Press.

-----. Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Rev. and enl. ed. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1955-58.

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Music

Boggs, Beverly B., and Daniel W. Patterson. An Index to Selected Folk Recordings. Chapel Hill: Curriculum in Folklore, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984.

Bohlman, Philip V., and Bruno Nettl. Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Brandel, Rose. "The African Hemiola Style." Ethnomusicology 3 (1959):106-17.

Bratcher, Perry, and Jennifer Smith, comps. Music Subject Headings: Compiled from Library of Congress Subject Headings. Edited by Richard P. Smiraglia. Lake Crystal, MN: Soldier Creek Press, 1988.

Brown University. Department of Music. http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Music/graduate/

Coates, Eric James. The British Catalogue of Music Classification, Compiled for the Council of the British National Bibliography by E. J. Coates. London: Council of the British National Bibliography, 1960.

Concise Dictionary of Music: London: Collins, 1986.

Cowdery, James R. How to Write About Music: The RILM Manual of Style. New York: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, 2005.

Ethnomusicology: Journal for the Society for Ethnomusicology. 1953- .

Grove Music Online. http://www.grovemusic.com/index.html

Feather, Leonard. The Encyclopedia of Jazz. New York: Horizon Press, 1960.

Feld, Steven. "Linguistic Models in Ethnomusicology." Ethnomusicology 18 (1974): 197-217.

Harrold, Ann, and Graham Lea. Musaurus: A Music Thesaurus, a New Approach to Organising Music Information. London: Music Press, 1991.

Heiberg, Hanne. Tesaurus For Visearkivet. Oslo: Visearkivet, 1991.

Hemmasi, Harriette. "The Music Thesaurus: A Faceted Approach to LCSH." Paper presented at Authority Control in the 21st Century: An Invitational Conference, Dublin, OH, March 31 - April 1, 1996. http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObjectMain.jsp?fileid=0000003520:000000091791
&reqid=354&frame=false

-----, comp. Music Subject Headings: Compiled from Library of Congress Subject Headings. With technical assistance of Fred Rowley. Lake Crystal, MN: Soldier Creek Press, 1998.

Keil, Charles. "The Theory of Participatory Discrepancies: A Progress Report." Ethnomusicology 39 (1995): 1-19.

Koskoff, Ellen, ed. The United States and Canada. Vol. 3, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Myers, Helen, ed., Ethnomusicology: An Introduction. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.

-----, ed., Ethnomusicology: Historical and Regional Studies. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993.

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. http://www.rilm.org/

Rice, Timothy, James Porter, and Chris Goertzen, eds. Europe. Vol. 8, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.

Sachs, Curt. The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1943.

Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan, 1980.

-----, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Grove, 2001.

Schloss, Joseph G. "Like Old Folk Songs Handed Down from Generation to Generation": History, Canon, and Community in B-boy Culture. Ethnomusicology 50 (2006): 411-32.

Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary. http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/.

University of California at Los Angeles. Department of Ethnomusicology. http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/

University of Illinois. School of Music. http://www.music.uiuc.edu/academics

University of Washington. School of Music. http://www.music.washington.edu/home/

Working Group on Faceted Access to Music. "Discussion Paper: Faceted Access to Music: Possibilities And Ramifications." 1994. http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/BCC/BCC-Historical/BCC94/94WGFAM1.html

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Musical Instruments

Baines, Anthony. The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Bakan, Michael B., Wanda Bryant, Li Guangming, David Martinelli, and Kathryn Vaughn. "Demystifying and Classifying Electronic Music Instruments." Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology: Issues in Organology 8 (1990): 37-64.

CIMCIM International Musical Instrument Collection Directory. http://www.icom.org/cimcim/id/

DeVale, Sue Carole, ed. Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology: Issues in Organology, 8 (1990).

Diagram Group. Musical Instruments of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York: Facts on File, 1976.

Diamond, Beverly, Sam M. Cronk, and Franziska von Rosen. Visions of Sound: Musical Instruments of First Nations Communities in Northeastern America. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Dournon, Geneviéve. "Organology." In Ethnomusicology: An Introduction, edited by H. Myers, 245-300. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.

Frangos, Judith Malkin. "Connecting Ethnological Musical Instrument Classification to the Construction of a Music Thesaurus." Masters thesis, The State University of New York at Albany, 1995.

Galpin, Francis W. A Textbook of European Musical Instruments: Their Origin, History, and Character. London: Williams and Norgate, 1937.

Hornbostel, Erich M., and Curt Sachs. "Classification of Musical Instruments." Galpin Society Journal 14 (1961): 3-29.

Kartomi, Margaret J. "The Classification of Musical Instruments: Changing Trends in Research from the Late Nineteenth Century, with Special Reference to the 1990s." Ethnomusicology 45 (2001): 283-314.

-----. On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Kvifte, Tellef. Instruments and the Electronic Age: Toward a Terminology for a Unified Description of Playing Technique. Oslo: Solum Forlag, 1989.

Lysloff, Rene, and Jim Matson. "A New Approach to the Classification of Sound Producing Instruments." Ethnomusicology 29 (1985): 213-36.

Marcuse, Sibyl. Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary. Corrected ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975.

Metropolitan Museum. Works of Art. Musical Instruments. http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/department.asp?dep=18

Montagu, Jeremy, and John Burton. A Proposed New Classification System for Musical Instruments. Ethnomusicology 15 (1971): 49-70.

Olsen, Dale A. "It is Time for Another -Phone." Society for Ethnomusicology Newsletter 20, no. 4 (1986): 5.

Sachs, Curt. The History of Musical Instruments. New York: W. W. Norton, 1940.

Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. London: Macmillan, 1984.

Thesaurus of Musical Instruments. http://alteriseculo.com/instruments/

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Dance

Arbeau, Thoinot. 1967. Orchesography. Translated by Mary Stewart Evans. New York: Dover, 1967. First published 1700.

Bakka, Egil, ed. Nordisk Folkedanstypologi: En systematisk katalog over publiserte nordiske folkedanser. Trondheim: Nordisk forening for folkdansforskning, 1997.

Casey, Betty. International Folk Dancing U.S.A. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981.

Craine, Debra, and Judith Mackrell. The Oxford Dictionary of Dance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. http://www.oxfordreference.com

Dancedirectory. http://www.dancedirectory.co.za/

The International Encyclopedia of Dance: A Project of the Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc.: New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. http://www.oxfordreference.com

Johansson, Sievert. Förhistorisk dans: En uppsats om dansens tidiga historia. Linköping, Sweden: the author, 1999.

McNair, Ralph J. Square Dance! Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1951.

Nettl, Paul. The Story of Dance Music. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

Sachs, Curt. World History of the Dance. New York: W. W. Norton, 1937.

Stearns, Marshall, and Jean Stearns. Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance. New York: Da Capo Press, 1994. First published 1968 by Macmillan.

Vail, June. Kulturella koreografier. Stockholm: Carlssons, 1998.

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Material Culture

The British Museum Objects Names Thesaurus. http://www.mda.org.uk/bmobj/Objintro.htm

Caulfeild, Sophia Frances Anne, and Blanche C. Saward. The Dictionary of Needlework: An Encyclopaedia of Artistic, Plain, and Fancy Needlework. New York: Arno Press, 1942.

Encyclopedia of Textiles. 3 ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980.

English Heritage National Monuments Records Thesauri http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/thesaurus/frequentuser.htm

Glassie, Henry. Patterns in Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968.

An Introduction to Textile Terms. Washington, DC: The Textile Museum, 1997.

Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Keyword Thesaurus. http://www.mda.org.uk/pr_keywd.htm

Costume

Boucher, François. A History of Costume in the West. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987.

Dressed to Kill. The Thesaurus http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr512/01-02-wt2/thesauri/
dressedtokill/Pages/StarringThesauri.htm

The Hat Magazine. Hats UK. www.hatsuk.com

ICOM International Committee for the Museums and Collections of Costume: Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume. http://www.mda.org.uk/costume/vbt00e.htm

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Foodways

The Cook's Thesaurus. http://www.foodsubs.com/

Dirks, Robert. World Food Habits Bibliography. http://lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/.

LANGUAL: An International Framework for Food Description. The LANGUAL 2007 Thesaurus. http://www.langual.org/langual_thesauri.asp.

Maynard, Chris, and Bill Scheller. Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine! New York: Villard, 1998.

United States Department of Agriculture. National Agricultural Library. NAL Agricultural Thesaurus. http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/agt/dne%5Csearch.shtml.

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Workers/Occupations/Transportation

National Academy of Sciences. Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT). http://trt.trb.org/trt.asp.

U.S. Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System. http://www.bls.gov/soc/

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Space and Place

Lopez, Barry, ed. Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2006.

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