ANNOUNCING: H-Folk: H-Net Network on Folklore
http://www.h-net.org/~folk

Member of: H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
http://www.h-net.org

H-Net proudly announces its newest addition to its family of over 180
discussion networks -- H-Folk -- in cooperation with The American Folklore
Society, The Folklore Society of Great Britain, The Folklore Studies
Association of Canada, the International Society for Folk Narrative
Research, the National Folklore Support Centre [India], and the Socit
internationale dethnologie et de folklore.

H-Folk has been created to foster better international communication among
folklorists and to increase scholarly dialogue in the field. H-Folk
encourages discussions of research, teaching, policy, and historiography in
the fields of folklore and ethnology. In addition, H-Folk welcomes news
of major conferences, calls for papers, announcements of fellowship and
research opportunities, and links to organization websites. H-Folk also
supports the exchange of ideas and information with scholars on related
H-Net networks. Finally, H-Folk disseminates information about its six
sponsoring organizations. It is a network developed in conjunction with
all these organizations, although it is open for all to join.

The H-Folk resources list (http://www.h-net.org/~folk/resources.html)
contains information about these organizations. Suggestions for additional
resources are welcome; please email the editors.

The goals of H-Net lists are to enable scholars to easily communicate
current research and teaching interests; to discuss new approaches, methods
and tools of analysis; to share information on online resources; to test
new ideas and share comments on the literature in their fields; to publish
quality reviews in many fields; and to support academe through publication
of the JobGuide. All network messages are permanently archived and
searchable.

Like all H-Net lists, H-Folk is moderated to edit out material that, in
the editors' opinion, is not germane to the list, involves technical
matters (such as subscription management requests), is inflammatory, or
violates the evolving, yet common, standards of Internet etiquette.
H-Net's procedure for resolving disputes over list editorial practices is
Article II, Section 2.20 of our bylaws, located at:
http://www.h-net.org/about/by-laws.php. Logs and more information can
also be located at: http://www.h-net.org/~folk.

Lead Editor Ergo-Hart Vstrik, ergofolklore.ee, Director, Estonian Folklore
Archives, Tartu, Estonia

Additional Editors Kristin Kuutma, kkuutmaneti.ee, University of Tartu,
Tartu, Estonia Timothy Lloyd, lloyd.100osu.edu, Executive Director, The
American Folklore Society, Columbus, Ohio, US Dorothy Noyes,
noyes.10osu.edu, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, US Elo-Hanna
Seljamaa, seljamaa.1osu.edu, Secretary, International Society for Folk
Narrative Research, Columbus, Ohio, US

Advisory Board members Ian Brodie, ian_brodiecbu.ca, Cape Breton
University, Canada (representing the Folklore Studies Association of
Canada) Donald Haase, dhaasewayne.edu, Wayne State University, Detroit,
Michigan, US (representing the International Society for Folk Narrative
Research) M.R. Muthukumaraswamy, muthuindianfolklore.org, National
Folklore Support Centre, Chennai, India Dorothy Noyes, noyes.10osu.edu,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, US (representing the American
Folklore Society) Ian Russell, ianrussellabdn.ac.uk, Elphinstone
Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland (representing the Folklore Society of Great
Britain) Cristina Snchez-Carretero, csanchezile.csic.es, Consejo Superior
de Investigaciones Cientficas, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (representing
the Socit internationale dethnologie et de folklore)

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and with word wrap off for long lines) and only this text:

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Jones, Pacific State University

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sciences that creates and coordinates electronic networks, using a variety
of media, and with a common objective of advancing humanities and social
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supportive, equalitarian public environment for the friendly exchange of
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