The Folklore archive of the University of the Balearic Islands

Abstract

The Folklore Archive of the University of the Balearic Islands is a modest but ambitious project that is currently in the initial stage of being set up. It is part of the Historical Archive, of which it is one collection, although the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics is responsible for its academic supervision. At this stage, it mainly comprises a subcollection of course work produced by students on folklore and popular oral literature. This article sets out the theoretical and methodological bases, the background to the project and the purposes for which it was set up. It also discusses the tools for managing the archive, and the collection, subcollections, series and subseries of which it is made up.