Barth, Fredrik, ed.
1970 Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. Allen and Unwin, London.
Explores the concept of ethnicity

Glassie, Henry
1998 Irish Folk History : Tales From the North. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

1997 Art and Life in Bangladesh. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

1993 Turkish Traditional Art Today. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis.

1989 The Spirit of Art: The Girard Collection at the Museum of International Folk Art. Abrams in association with the Museum of New Mexico, New York and Santa fe.

1972 Folk Art, in Richard Dorson, ed. Folklore and Folklife. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Good article

Kramrisch, Stella
1968 Unknown India. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.
Background on folk culture

Lannoy, Richard
1971 The Speaking Tree: A Study of Indian Culture and Society. Oxford University Press, New York.

Leshnik, Lawrence S., ed.
1975 Pastoralists and Nomads in South Asia. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.
An article on Rabaris

Mode, Heinz, and Subodh Chandra
1985 Indian Folk Art. Taraporevala, Bombay.
Good source

Reeves, Ruth
1967 Folk Arts of India. Syracuse University, Syracuse.

Sen Gupta, Sri Sankar
1969 Women in Indian Folklore. Calcutta.

Sieber, Roy
1971 The Arts and their Changing Social Function, in Anthropology and Art, Ed. Charlotte Otten. The Natural History Press, Garden City, N.Y.
Explores art in cultural context

Compiled for the exhibition In The Language Of Stitches by Judy Frater
Revised 5/98 by Carol Bier