For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of American Folk Art web site. This is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of a

Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward socia

Describes the characteristics of folk cultures and discusses the procedures used by social scientists to study folklife.

The country's leading authority on use of artifactual evidence in historical research collects twenty-five classic essays and gives his overview of the field of