Digital Traditions was developed to provide access to the Folklife Resource Center (FRC) at McKissick Museum. For thirty years, deeply rooted traditions like quilting, pottery, basketry, communal foodways, and folk music have been documented through audio, video, and photography.
Find special projects that have been digitized for exploration.
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by Ben Haggard. Haggard is an Electrical Engineering major in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This review was written for the Spring 2012 class "Folklore and Film." “Gort, Klaatu barada...
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by Evan Comen. Comen is an Economics major in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This review was written for the Spring 2012 class "Folklore and Film." In his award-winning 2002 film City of...
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by Adam Beaty. Beaty is a Broadcast Journalism major in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This review was written for the Spring 2012 class "Folklore and Film." Managing to maintain both...
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by Caitlin Orr. Orr is a Media Arts major in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This review was written for the Spring 2012 class "Folklore and Film." Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese, tells...
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by Brittany Anderson. Anderson is a Theatre major in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This review was written for the Spring 2012 class "Folklore and Film." If a person were to tell me that...
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by Mallory Turner. Turner is an Anthropology student in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This paper was written for the Fall 2011 class "Folklife in America." Pregnancy is a time of immense...
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by Christine Jiang. Jiang is a student in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This paper was written for the Fall 2011 class "Folklife in America." Between 1917 and 1919, China had the biggest...
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by Alison Salisbury. Salisbury is an English major in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This paper was written for the Fall 2007 class "Folklife in America." Food is an integral part of my...
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by Saddler Taylor, Chief Curator of Folklife & Fieldwork at McKissick Museum. “Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the...
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by David Sims. Sims is a Chemistry major in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This paper was written for the Spring 2009 class "Folklore and Film." Skinhead culture as a movement began in the...
