My brother mentioned before how he used to look at the course listings for courses he was thinking about taking in college, and then go to the bookstore or library to check out the different texts they would be studying in those classes. If he liked the books, then he’d take the classes. That makes a lot of sense to me. It seems like an especially appropriate investigative practice for looking at folklore/mythology programs also, since folklore is all about examining what kinds of stories are important to the group who is the object of your study.

Here’s some books which seem interesting which I’ve pulled off the website of Indiana University’s Dept. of Folklore:

1. The Dynamics of Folklore by Barre Toelken
2. They have some other books by Jan Harold Brunvand, but I like the looks of this The Study of American Folklore
3. This book was also not listed, I tracked it down from a reference made in the text: Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature

These are ones I found random places:

1. The Gift of Stories by Robert Atkinson

More soon…