美国的民间工艺研究有着一百多年的历史。早在1888年,便成立了美国民俗学协会。1892年,在芝加哥举行的世界博览会上,除了展示美国新文明的成就外,还有许多民间工艺品,如木雕、编织品等,展现了美国传统的文化和卓越的民间手工艺。芝加哥民俗学会主席巴赛特(Fletcher Bassett)还在博览会期间举办了第三届国际民俗学会议。但是,在上世纪末,最著名的民间工艺学者则是宾夕法尼亚州大学的柯林(Stewart Culin)教授,他早在1880年便搜集有关印第安人和华裔、非洲、欧洲移民们的民间工艺品,在1887年发表《美国东部华裔的社会生活》等论文。1892年,他在西 American folk craft research has a hundred years of history. As early as 1888, the American Folklore Association was established. In 1892, the world expo held in Chicago, in addition to showing the achievements of the new civilization in the United States, there are many folk handicrafts, such as wood carvings, knitwear, etc., showing the traditional American culture and excellent folk arts and crafts. Fletcher Bassett, president of the Chicago Institute of Folklore, also hosted the Third International Folklore Conference during the fair. However, at the end of the last century, the most famous folk craft scholar was Professor Stewart Culin of the University of Pennsylvania, who collected folk arts and crafts about Indians and Chinese, African and European immigrants as early as 1880. In 1887, Published in the “American East Chinese social life” and other essays. In 1892 he was on the west