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The Finnish SS-Volunteers and Atrocities 1941-1943 — Against Jews, Civilians and Prisoners of War in Ukraine and the Caucasus Region 1941-1943

Westerlund, Lars
SKS Kirjat, 2019
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In the spring of 1941, Finland began to recruit volunteers to serve in the German Waffen-SS. After the perils of the Winter War of 1939-40, the Finnish government and the military high command wanted support against the continuing existential threat posed...

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I will sing of what I know — 50 poems from the Kanteletar

Bosley, Keith; Timonen, Senni
SKS Kirjat, 1990
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I will sing of what I know is a selection of lyrics and ballads composed and sung by generations of men and women living ordinary lives. These fifty poems are from a treasure of some seven hundred edited and aranged by great Finnish scholar-physician...

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Taiteen koti - A Home for Art — Juhani Kirpilän taidekokoelma - The Juhani Kirpilä Art Collection

Ruohonen, Johanna; Träskelin, Rauno
SKS Kirjat, 2017
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Taiteen koti on visuaalisesti upea uuteen tutkimukseen perustuva teos, jossa suomalaisen taidehistorian arvostetut tutkijat avaavat näkökulmia Juhani Kirpilään (1931-1988) keräilijänä sekä tämän taidekokoelmaan ja samalla suomalaiseen taiteen kenttään...

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Oral Tradition and Book Culture

Anttonen, Pertti; Forselles, Cecilia af; Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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A new interdisciplinary interest has risen to study interconnections between oral tradition and book culture. In addition to the use and dissemination of printed books, newspapers etc., book culture denotes manuscript media and the circulation of written...

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The Culture of the Finnish Roma

Markkanen, Airi; Åberg, Kai
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2024
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This anthology is a needed collection of chapters intended for the international audience. The editor of the anthology, having participated in many international conferences and seminars, have often been asked: Is there Roma research in Finland? What...

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Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870-1990 — Cultural Change, Endurance and Resistance

Koivunen, Leila; Merivirta, Raita
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2024
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This edited collection re-examines the long history of Finnish-Namibian relations through the lens of colonialism without colonies as well as anti-colonialism. The book argues that although Finland never acquired colonies, Namibia was once treated...

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Breathe — You know

Orenius, Melanie; Porola, Laura; Donner, Ulla
SKS Kirjat, 2024
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How should you act in an art museum (or in the world in general)? Why is art so odd? And what if you just don't get it? Lumi and Niki, 14-years-old and BFFs, are off to Helsinki. The main purpose of the trip is, of course, to get out of “Fartville”...

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Performative Histories, Foundational Fictions — Gender and Sexuality in Niskavuori Films

Koivunen, Anu
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2003
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Films are essential to national imagination and promotional publicity markets "domestic films" not only as entertaining, exciting, or moving, but also as topical and relevant in different ways. When assessing new films, reviewers make reference to other...

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Collection Sigurd Frosterus

Aittomaa, Sofia
SKS Kirjat, 2025
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The Sigurd Frosterus Collection, edited by Sofia Aittomaa, presents a unique exploration of post-impressionist painting and its significance in both Finnish and international art history. Assembled by Sigurd Frosterus (1876-1956), the collection reflects...

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The Best Kitchen in Town — Finnish haute cuisine

Ilamo, Tuija; Jokiniemi, Kimmo; Hagelstam, Katja; McAlester, Gerard
SKS Kirjat, 2007
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Maan suurimman liikepankin ravintolan herkullisimmista menuista ja resepteistä koottu keittokirja tarjoaa läpileikkauksen suomalaiseen gastronomiaan.

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Across the Oceans — Development of Overseas Business Inforrmation Transmission 1815-1875

Laakso, Seija-Riitta
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
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In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development introduced options to improve general information transmission...

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The Finnish Case System — Cognitive Linguistic Perspectives

Jaakola, Minna; Onikki-Rantajääskö, Tiina
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2023
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The Finnish language is perhaps best known for its rich case system. Depending on the definition of a case, Finnish has at least fourteen, possibly fifteen or even more cases. This volume is the first comprehensive English-language account of the Finnish...

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Personal Agency at the Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720

Karonen, Petri; Hakanen, Marko
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
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Personal Agency at the Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720 provides fresh insights into the state-building process in Sweden. During this transitional period, many far-reaching administrative reforms were carried out, and the Swedish state developed into a prime example of the "power-state...

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Modernisation in Russia since 1900

Kangaspuro, Markku; Smith, Jeremy
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
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Modernisation has been a constant theme in Russian history at least since Peter the Great launched a series of initiatives aimed at closing the economic, technical and cultural gap between Russia and the more 'advanced' countries of Europe...

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Fibula, Fabula, Fact — The Viking Age in Finland

Ahola, Joonas; Frog; Tolley, Clive
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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Were there Vikings in Finland? Fibula, Fabula, Fact - The Viking Age in Finland is intended to provide essential foundations for approaching the Viking Age in Finland. The volume consists of a general introduction followed by nineteen chapters and a closing discussion...

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Perestroika — Process and Consequences

Kangaspuro, Markku; Nikula, Jouko; Stodolsky, Ivor
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2010
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Mihail Gorbatsovin valinta Neuvostoliiton kommunistisen puolueen NKP:n pääsihteeriksi 1985 käynnisti kuusi maailmaa järisyttänyttä vuotta. Kylmän sodan vuosikymmeninä maailman eri leireihin jakaneet politiikan mannerlaatat lähtivät liikkeelle, alkoivat...

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Literacy Skills as Local Intangible Capital — The History of a Rural Lending Library c. 1860 - 1920

Kotilainen, Sofia
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
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This book studies the "grey area" of the success story of rural lending libraries in the Nordic countries through the activities of people's libraries in one area of Central Finland, in the parish of Kivijärvi and its neighbouring parishes...

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Essi Renvall

Nikkari, Virpi; Kekäläinen, Tarja; Suominen, Tapio; Kudel, Silja
SKS Kirjat, 2016
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Lahjakas, sisukas ja omaperäinen nämä sanat kuvaavat oululaissyntyistä kuvanveistäjää Essi Renvallia (1911-1979). Aikansa seurapiirikaunotar ja tiedotusvälineiden kestosuosikki pystyi ansaitsemaan elantonsa taiteellisella tuotannollaan, innostaen ja kohahduttaen...

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The Springs of Democracy — National and Transnational Debates on Constitutional Reform in the British, German, Swedish and Finnish Parliaments, 1917-1919

Ihalainen, Pasi
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
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During the First World War, conflicts between the people's sacrifices and their political participation led to crises of parliamentary legitimacy. This volume compares British, German, Swedish and Finnish debates on revolution, rule by the people, democracy...

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Filmitähtien aika — actors and actresses from the golden era of finnish cinema - näyttelijöitä suomalaisen elokuvan kultakaudelta - skådespelare under den finska filmens guldålder

Vase, Kai
SKS Kirjat, 2007
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Filmitähtien aika on silmäys aikaan, jolloin suomalainen elokuva eli kultakauttaan, jolloin tähdet olivat tähtiä ja heidän vetovoimansa kosketti suuria yleisöjä. Teos on läpileikkaus suomalaisen elokuvatähteyden historiasta, kasvoista jotka ovat eläneet suomalaisten muistissa läpi vuosikymmenten...

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Mansi Mythology — Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies 3

Napolskikh, Vladimir; Siikala, Anna-Leena; Hoppal, Mihaly; Gemuev, I.N.; Baulo, A.V.; Lyutsidarskaya, A.A.; Sagalaev, A.N.; Sokolova, Z.P.; Soldatova, G.E.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2008
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The Encyclopedia of Uralic Mythologies offers a comparative base for study of the roots and present forms of Finno-Ugrian and Samoyedic mythologies and ethnic religions. The peoples speaking the Uralic languages are indigenous peoples of Northern Eurasia...

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Transnational Death

Saramo, Samira; Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika; Snellman, Hanna
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
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Transnational Death brings together eleven cutting-edge articles from the emerging field of transnational death studies. The collection highlights European, Asian, North American, and Middle Eastern perspectives, and reflects on people's changing experiences...

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Tradition through Modernity — Postmodernism and the Nation-State in Folklore Scholarship

Anttonen, Pertti J.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2005
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In their study of social practices deemed traditional, scholars tend to use the concept and idea of tradition as an element of meaning in the practices under investigation. But just whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning generated by those who study tradition...

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Spreading the Written Word — Mikael Agricola and the Birth of Literary Finnish

Häkkinen, Kaisa; Leonard, Pearl
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2015
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The arrival of the Reformation was the decisive impetus for literary development in Finland. The principle of Lutheranism was that the people had to get to hear and read the word of God in their own mother tongue...

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Kalevipoeg Studies — The Creation and Reception of an Epic

Hasselblatt, Cornelius
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
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This is the first English-language monograph on the poem Kalevipoeg (1857-1861), composed by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803-1882). The poem is over 19,000 lines long, and is known today as the Estonian national epic...

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Jokainen nuotti pitää elää - Man måste leva varje not - One must live every note — Jean Sibeliuksen vuosikymmenet musiikissa - Jean Sibelius decennier i musik - Jean Sibelius's decades in music

Virtanen, Timo; Djupsjöbacka, Tove; Barnett, Andrew
SKS Kirjat, 2015
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Teos tarjoaa katsauksen Jean Sibeliuksen pitkän elämän ja säveltäjänuran vuosikymmeniin ja antaa mahdollisuuden kurkistaa säveltäjän salaiseen puutarhaan, hänen luomistyöhönsä. Kirja esittelee taustoja ja olosuhteita, joiden vaikutuksesta ja vallitessa...

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On the Border of Language and Dialect

Palander, Marjatta; Riionheimo, Helka; Koivisto, Vesa
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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This volume considers the linguistic borders between a language and a dialect as well as the administrative, cultural, and mental borders that affect the linguistic ones. The articles approach mental borders between dialects, dialect continua, and areas...

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The Helsinki University Library — The National Library of Finland, 1640-2010

Knapas, Rainer
SKS Kirjat, 2012
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The present book gives an introduction to the history of Finland's leading scientific library, the National Library, from its foundation in 1640 up to 2010; from the guardian of the first modest book collections at the Royal Academy in Turku to the leading...

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Creating Diversities — Folklore, Religion and the Politics of Heritage

Siikala, Anna-Leena; Klein, Barbro; Mathisen, Stein R.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2004
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The effects of globalization and the momentous changes to the political map of Europe have led to a world in which multiculturalism and ethnic differences have become issues of increasing importance. In Nordic countries, relationships between new immigrants,...

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Aboa Vetus et Nova

Juslenius, Daniel; Pekkanen, Tuomo; Seppälä-Pekkanen, Virpi; Rabbe, Frans Johan; Mattsson, Laura; McAlester, Gerard
SKS Kirjat, 2005
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Nelikielinen (latina, suomi, ruotsi, englanti) versio Daniel Jusleniuksen väitöskirja vuodelta 1700. "Suomalaisuuden isä" ja "totinen fennomaani" Daniel Juslenius (16761752) oli oman aikansa kulttuurin monitoimimies...

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Representations of Finnishness in Sweden

Weckström, Lotta
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2010
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More than half a million Swedes - one in twenty - is of Finnish descent. This book explores Finnishness, multilingualism and identities of young people with Finnish background in Sweden. What does it mean to grow up in a Finnish family in Sweden? Who...

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Morality, Crime and Social Control — in Europe 1500-1900

Matikainen, Olli; Lidman, Satu
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2014
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This book explores key themes in European history through case studies scrutinizing the much-debated concept of "social control" from its exercise within the family and local communities to interventions at the highest state level...

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Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden

Gröndahl, Satu; Rantonen, Eila
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden presents new comparative perspectives on transnational literary studies. This collection provides a contribution to the production of new narratives of the nation...

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Sociolinguistic Variation in Urban Linguistic Landscapes

Henricson, Sofie; Syrjälä, Väinö; Bagna, Carla; Bellinzona, Martina
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2024
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Urban linguistic landscapes reflect and create sociolinguistic, societal and urban dynamics. This book explores these relations scientifically and, focusing on the linguistic landscapes of selected cities in northern and southern Europe, sheds light on...

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Lake Ladoga — The Coastal History of the Greatest Lake in Europe

Lähteenmäki, Maria; Land, Isaac
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2023
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This multidisciplinary volume offers a spectacular view and the first overall presentation of the history of Lake Ladoga, of the greatest lake in Europe. The focus of the study is on the northern parts of the shores of the lake, which belonged to Finland's rule between 1812 and 1944...

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Khanty Mythology — Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies 2

Napolskikh, Vladimir; Siikala, Anna-Leena; Hoppal, Mihaly; Kulemzin, Vladislav M.; Lukina, Nadezhda V.; Moldanov, Timofei A.; Moldanova, Tatyana A.
SKS Kirjat, 2006
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The Encyclopedia of Uralic Mythologies offers a comparative base for study of the roots and present forms of Finno-Ugrian and Samoyedic mythologies and ethnic religions. The peoples speaking the Uralic languages are indigenous peoples of Northern Eurasia...

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Riddles — Perspektives on the use, function andchange in a folklore genre

Kaivola-Bergenhöj, Annikki
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2001
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Riddles are a journey into a fascinating world rich in delightful metaphors and ambiguity. This book is based on material drawn from all over the world and analyses both traditional true riddles and contemporary joking questions...

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Vanhan Rauman portit - Gates of Old Rauma

Puolamäki, Laura
SKS Kirjat, 2017
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Vanhan Rauman portit kertovat entisaikojen kaupunkielämästä. Unescon maailmanperintökohteeksi valittu Vanha Rauma on pohjoismaiden laajin yhtenäinen puukaupunkialue. Tiiviisti rakennettuun kaupunkikuvaan kuuluvat olennaisena osana portit, jotka erottavat yksityiset pihat julkisista kaduista...

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Memories of My Town — The Identities of Town Dwellers and their Places in Three Finnish Towns

Åström, Anna-Maria; Korkiakangas, Pirjo; Olsson, Pia
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2004
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The volume Memories of my Town is an exploration into how town dwellers experience their environment in a complicated way .As people in urban milieus relate themselves to the environment, this takes place on many levels, where especially the time level becomes problematic...

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The Limits of Patriarchy — How Female Networks of Pilfering and Gossip Sparked the First Debates on Rural Gender Rights in the 19th-Century Finnish-Language Press

Stark, Laura
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
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In the mid-19th century, letters to newspapers in Finland began to condemn a practice known as home thievery, in which farm mistresses pilfered goods from their farms to sell behind the farm master's back...

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Identities in Practice — A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh Immigrants in Finland and in California

Hirvi, Laura
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2013
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Identities in Practice draws a nuanced picture of how the experience of migration affects the process through which Sikhs in Finland and California negotiate their identities. What makes this study innovative with regard to the larger context of migration...

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The Enemy Within — Homicide and Control in Eastern Finland in the Final Years of Swedish Rule 1748-1808

Koskivirta, Anu
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2003
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This work explores the quantitative and qualitative development of homicide in eastern Finland in the second half of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth. The area studied comprised northern Savo and northern Karelia in eastern Finland...

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Selkup Mythology — Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies 4

Napolskikh, Vladimir
SKS Kirjat, 2010
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Selkup Mythology is the fourth volume of The Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies, edited by Anna-Leena Siikala, Vladimir Napolskikh and Mihaly Hoppal, which offers a basis for the study of the roots and present nature of Finno-Ugric and Samoyed religions...

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Where is the Field? — The Experience of Migration Viewed through the Prism of Ethnographic Fieldwork

Hirvi, Laura; Snellman, Hanna
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2012
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The book sheds light on the experiences of immigrants in different parts of the world and other insightful reflections on the art of carrying out fieldwork in the present day, when the task of locating the 'field' seems to present a particular challenge for researchers...

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Dynamic Finland — The Political System and the Welfare State

Pesonen, Pertti; Riihinen, Olavi
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002
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Finland celebrated its 85th year of independence in 2002. It is one of the thirteen countries of the world that have preserved their democracy uninterrupted since the First World War. Despite its modest origins and difficult wartime experiences, this...

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Genetic Criticism in Motion — New Perspectives on Manuscript Studies

Katajamäki, Sakari; Pulkkinen, Veijo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2023
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Genetic criticism investigates creative processes by analysing manuscripts and other archival sources. It sheds light on authors' working practices and the ways works are developed on the writer's desk or in the artist's studio...

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Strategies of sanity and survival — religious responses to natural disasters in the middle ages

Hanska, Jussi
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002
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Natural disasters have long been a neglected subject in the study of history. At most they have been casually mentioned as a background material for political or social history. During the 90s this state of affairs has slowly began to change...

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Defining Self — Essays on emergent identities in Russia Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Branch, Michael
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2009
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Kansainvälisen tutkijakaartin artikkelit tarkastelevat identiteetin muotoutumista Venäjällä, yhdessä maailman suurimmista monikansallisista valtioista. Teoksessa kuvaillaan, miten identiteettien moninaisuus alkoi näkyä jo Venäjän keisarikunnan aikana,...

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Registers of Communication

Agha, Asif; Frog
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2015
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In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices...

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Myth and Mentality

Siikala, Anna-Leena
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
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The recent fascination in Finnish folklore studies with popular thought and the values and emotions encoded in oral tradition began with the realisation that the vast collections of the Finnish folklore archives still have much to offer the modern-day researcher...

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Registers of Communication

Agha, Asif; Frog
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices...

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Beyond the horizon — essays on myth, history, travel and society

Sather, Clifford; Kaartinen, Timo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2008
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Artikkelikokoelman lähtökohtana on ajatus kulttuurista pragmaattisten kontekstien ja kokemuksen tasojen välisiä suhteita jäsentävänä maailmankuvana. Artikkelit tarkastelevat etnografisten esimerkkien valossa, mikä määrittää kunkin yhteiskunnan horisonttia...

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Understanding Finnish Pensions

Ritola, Suvi; Väänänen, Niko
SKS Kirjat, 2023
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Who pays out my pension? How much pension do I get? Will the system be sustainable also in the future since the population ages? Who decides on pensions? Pensions play a role in everyone's life - first as the payers of the scheme and later as its beneficiaries...

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Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises — Ritual and the Supernatural in Orthodox Karelian Folk Religion

Stark, Laura
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002
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Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors...

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Fashion Meets Socialism — Fashion industry in the Soviet Union after the Second World War

Gronow, Jukka; Zhuravlev, Sergey
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2015
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The Soviet Union was not renowned for its fashionable clothing. However, after the World War II the Soviet Government opened several parallel organizations of fashion design with fashion houses and ateliers all over the country...

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Continued Violence and Troublesome Pasts — Post-war Europe between the Victors after the Second World War

Kivimäki, Ville; Karonen, Petri
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
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In most European countries, the horrific legacy of 1939-1945 has made it difficult to remember the war with much glory. Despite the Anglo-American memory narrative of saving democracy from totalitarianism and the Soviet epic of the Great Patriotic War,...

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Linking Clauses and Actions in Social Interaction

Laury, Ritva; Etelämäki, Marja; Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
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This volume is intended as a reader for students and scholars working in the field of grammar and interaction. It deals with ways in which verbal and non-verbal actions are combined and linked in everyday conversation, in institutional contexts, and in written journalism...

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Gendered Rural Spaces

Olsson, Pia; Ruotsala, Helena
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2009
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Rural spaces are connected with different cultural, economic, social and political codes and meanings. In this book these meanings are analysed through gender. The articles concretely show the process of producing gender and the ways in which accepted...

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The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970 — History, ideology, methodology

Briody, Mícheál
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
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Between 1935 and 1970 the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiun Bealoideasa Eireann), under-funded and at great personal cost to its staff, assembled one of the world's largest folklore collections. The cultural, linguistic, political and ideological factors...

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Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature — Urban Experiences in Finnish Prose Fiction 1890–1940

Ameel, Lieven
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2014
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Literary Helsinki: a city of leisure and light, divided along the fault lines of gender, class and language; a dizzying and dazzling threshold of modernity; alienating, mesmerizing and endearing. This first monograph to examine experiences of Helsinki...

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Divine Rulers in a Secular State

Kallinen, Timo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
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In present-day Africa chiefs interact fluently with modern states, international organizations, and business corporations, and traditional chieftaincy is perceived essentially as a secular institution...

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Genre -Text - Interpretation — Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Folklore and Beyond

Koski, Kaarina; Savolainen, Ulla; Frog, Mr
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
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This book presents current discussions on the concept of genre. It introduces innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary and historical genres, their roles in cultural discourse, how they change, and their relations to each other...

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Passages Westward

Lähteenmäki, Maria; Snellman, Hanna
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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The West has always been a resource for the Finns. Scholars, artists and other professionals have sought contacts from Europe throughout the centuries. The Finnish experience in Western Europe and the New World is a story of migrant laborers, expatriates and specialists working abroad...

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Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740-1790)

Wolff, Charlotta
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2008
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Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740-1790) is a study of how the Swedish nobility articulated its political ideals, self-images and loyalties during the Age of Liberty and under the rule of Gustav III...

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On the Legacy of Lutheranism in Finland — Societal Perspectives

Sinnemäki, Kaius; Portman, Anneli; Tilli, Jouni; Nelson, Robert H.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
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This volume analyses the societal legacy of Lutheranism in Finland by drawing on a multidisciplinary perspective from the social sciences and humanities. Involving researchers from a wide range of such fields has made it possible to provide fresh and...

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Storied and Supernatural Places — Studies in Spatial and Social Dimensions of Folklore and Sagas

Valk, Ülo; Sävborg, Daniel
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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This collection of articles addresses the narrative construction of places, landscapes and their supernatural dimensions, the relationship between tradition communities and their environments, and the spatial conditions for encounters with the supernatural...

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The Army in Finland — during the last decades of Swedish rule (1770-1809)

Screen, John E.O.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
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This book describes the army raised in Finland during the reigns of Gustav III and Gustav IV Adolf, the last decades of Swedish rule. It considers the organization of the army and its role in the defence of Finland...

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Helsinki, Pioneers of Modernism 1930-1955

Moorhouse, Johathan
SKS Kirjat, 2010
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Englanninkielinen laitos kirjasta Modernismin etujoukko. Modernista arkkitehtuuristaan kuuluisa Suomi haki inspiraatiotaan vuosien 1930-1955 modernismin pioneereista. Erityisesti Helsingissä nämä mestariteokset heijastivat nuorekasta ja elinvoimaista...

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Mysterious Minds — The Making of Private and Collective Consciousness in Marja-Liisa Vartio's Novels

Nykänen, Elise
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
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Marja-Liisa Vartio (1924-1966) is considered one of the foremost innovators of consciousness representation in Finnish post-war modernism. Mysterious Minds, the first study to examine this subject in depth, explores the portrayal of fictional minds in her novels...

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Pohjoinen uusrokokoo - Nyrokokon och Norden - Neo Rococo and the North

Kuurne, Laura; Gutman, Laura; Vainio-Kurtakko, Maria; Sivonen, Pauli; Karppanen, Hanna
SKS Kirjat, 2015
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Teos avaa näköaloja uusrokokoon maalaustaiteeseen ja asettaa ilmiön osaksi laajempaa 1700-luvun ihailua Ruotsissa ja Suomessa. Uusrokokoo ja sen pohjoinen muoto kustavilaisuus tunnetaan parhaiten sisustustyyleinä, mutta rokokooajasta ammentava maalaustaide...

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Diplomatic Deceptions — Anglo-Soviet relations and the Fate of Finland 1944-1948

Evans, Helena P.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
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Diplomatic deceptions reveals the true extent of the British initiatives that placed Finland's fate in Soviet hands in 1944 and the acts of diplomatic deception subsequently employed to conceal the truth from the Finnish people...

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Rhetorics of Nordic Democracy

Kurunmäki, Jussi; Strang, Johan
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2010
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Democracy is today a concept that is overwhelmingly positively evaluated almost everywhere. A lot has been written about socio-economic and cultural backgrounds of democratic regimes as well as their institutional settings...

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Mythic Discourses — Studies in Uralic Traditions

Frog; Siikala, Anna-Leena; Stepanova, Eila
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2012
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Mythic discourses in the present day show how vernacular heritage continues to function and be valuable through emergent interpretations and revaluations. At the same time, continuities in mythic images, motifs, myths and genres reveal the longue durée of mythologies and their transformations...

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Hidden Rituals and Public Performances — Traditions and Belonging among the Post-Soviet Khanty, Komi and Udmurts

Siikala, Anna-Leena; Oleg, Ulyashev
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
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Why are Khanty shamans still active? What are the folklore collectives of Komi? Why are the rituals of Udmurts performed at cultural festivals? In their insightful ethnographic study Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Ulyashev attempt to answer such questions...

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Varkaus and its people — a hundred years

Itkonen, Hannu
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2005
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Varkaus and Its People - A Hundred Years is a work which reveals the great changes that have taken place in Finnish society. The problems of industrialisation, the bloody weeks of the Civil War, the stories of survival during economic slumps, the tragic...

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Edhina Ekogidho - Names as Links — The Encounter between African and European Anthroponymic Systems among the Ambo People in Namibia

Saarelma-Maunumaa, Minna
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2003
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What are the most popular names of the Ambo people in Namibia? Why do so many Ambos have Finnish first names? What do the African names of these people mean? Why is the namesake so important in Ambo culture? How did the nation's long struggle for independence...

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Finnish Consumption — An Emerging Consumer Society between East and West

Heinonen, Visa; Peltonen, Matti
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2013
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Finnish Consumption focuses on Finland as a modernising society between East and West. Comprehensive agrarian heritage and delayed modernisation in the sense of structural change, industrialisation and urbanisation are the central features of Finnish society during the 20th century...

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Novel Districts — Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm

Malmio, Kristina; Österlund, Mia
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
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Finland-Swedish writer Monika Fagerholm is one of the most important contemporary Nordic authors; she is known for her experimental style and visionary descriptions of girlhood. Novel Districts. Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm is the first book to study Fagerholm's works...

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Beyond the Horizon — Essays on Myth, History, Travel and Society

Sather, Clifford; Kaartinen, Timo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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Society is never just a localized aggregate of people but exists by virtue of its members' narrative and conceptual awareness of other times and places. In Jukka Siikala's work this idea evolves into a broad ethnographic and theoretical interest in worlds...

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Aino Kallas — Negotiations with Modernity

Kurvet-Käosaar, Leena; Rojola, Lea
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
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The collection, first one ever on Aino Kallas in English, highlights her significance to the artistic and intellectual horizons of modernity of Finland and Estonia as well as those of Scandinavia and Europe...

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From The Volga to Siberia — The Finno-Ugric Peoples in Today's Russia

Lehtinen, Ildiko
SKS Kirjat, 2012
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From the Volga to Siberia tells about the recent history, current state and national identity of the Khanty, Mari, Komi and Udmurt peoples in present-day Russia. It is a follow up to the book The Great Bear: Old Photographs of the Volga-Finnic, Permian-Finnic...

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Moving in the USSR — Western anomalies and Northern wilderness

Hakamies, Pekka
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2005
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This book deals with 20th century resettlements in the western areas of the former USSR, in particular the territory of Karelia that was ceded by Finland in the WWII, Podolia in the Ukraine, and the North-West periphery of Russia in the Kola peninsula...

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Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature

Hägg, Samuli; Sevänen, Erkki; Turunen, Risto
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2008
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In international research, metafictionality and other metaliterary features have typically been regarded as phenomena related to postmodernist fiction, in particular - Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature, however, discusses the metalayers of Finnish...

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Novels, Histories, Novel Nations — Historical Fiction and Cultural Memory in Finland and Estonia

Kaljundi, Linda; Laanes, Eneken; Pikkanen, Ilona
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2015
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Since its emergence along with Western nationalism, historical fiction has been one of the key forms for constructing national histories - and it has not lost its importance even today. This volume highlights the cultural work historical fiction performed in Finland and Estonia ca...

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Responsibility and Language Practices in Place

Siragusa, Laura; Ferguson, Jenanne K.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2020
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Responsibility and Language Practices in Place investigates 'responsibility' in and through language practices as inspired by the roots of the (English) word itself: the ability to respond, or mount a response to a situation at hand...

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Words as Events — Cretan Mandinádes in Performance and Composition

Sykäri, Venla
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
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Words as Events introduces the tradition of short, communicative rhyming couplets, the mantinádes, as still sung and recited in a variety of performance situations on the island of Crete. Recently, these poems have also entered modern mass media and they...

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Names in Focus — An Introduction to Finnish Onomastics

Ainiala, Terhi; Saarelma, Minna; Sjöblom, Paula
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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Names in Focus delves deep into the vast field of Finnish onomastics, covering place names, personal names, animal names, commercial names and names in literature. It provides the history and current trends in this area of research, and also supplements...

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Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura — 175 vuotta : 175 år : 175 years

Moorhouse, Jonathan; Saanila, Marianne; Hackston, David; Wastie, Oliver
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
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Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran juhlavuoden kirja on viehättävä kuvateos, joka esittelee piirroksin SKS:n tiloja. Seura on toiminut Helsingin Kruununhaassa Hallituskatu 1:ssä arkkitehti, vapaaherra Sebastian Gripenbergin suunnittelemassa uusrenessanssitalossa sen valmistumisvuodesta 1890 lähtien...

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Touching Things — Ethnological Aspects of Modern Material Culture

Korkiakangas, Pirjo; Lappi, Tiina-Riitta; Niskanen, Heli
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2008
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Material culture is something we can touch and can be touched by. It is simultaneously concrete artefacts and expression of values produced and shared by humans. But what is modern material culture like? Material culture has always played an essential role in ethnological studies...

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Dwelling in Political Landscapes — Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives

Lounela, Anu; Berglund, Eeva; Kallinen, Timo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
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Dwelling in Political Landscapes contributes to the anthropology of landscape and the field of political ecology. Environments change at speeds never before experienced. Massive species loss is just one transformation affecting life forms and their interactions,...

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The Soviet Union, Finland and the Cold War — the finnish card in the soviet foreignpolicy, 1956-1959

Kähönen, Aappo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
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Kähösen tutkimus osoittaa, että Neuvostoliiton näkökulmasta neuvostoliittolais-suomalaisten suhteiden tosiasiallinen sisältö 1950-luvun toisella puoliskolla erosi selvästi sekä senaikaisesta että myöhemmästä ystävyys- ja luottamusretoriikkaan pohjaavasta julkisesta kuvasta...

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Her Own Worth — Negotiations of Subjectivity in the Life Narrative of a Female Labourer

Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2014
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This book opens up a window on the life of a female labourer who lived and worked in a small ironworks village in central Finland. Her life touches upon many of the core aspects of 20th-century social change in Finland: increasing educational opportunities,...

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On toponymic constructions as an alternative to naming patterns in describing Finnish lake names

Leino, Antti
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
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Monitieteinen artikkeliväitöskirja yhdistää nimistöntutkimukseen tietojenkäsittelytieteen menetelmiä ja tarkastelee tuloksia kognitiivisen kielentutkimuksen kautta. Tutkimus lähtee peruskartan järvennimien analyysistä, jonka tarkoituksena on löytää säännönmukaisesti...

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Constructing a legend — the international exhibitions of finnish architecture 1957-1967

Ceferin, Petra
SKS Kirjat, 2003
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In Constructing a Legend, architect-researcher Petra Ceferin takes a critical, strikingly fresh look at the international image surrounding Finnish architecture today, and more importantly, what lies behind it, why this particular image emerged...

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History and Change

Lahtinen, Anu; Vainio-Korhonen, Kirsi
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2004
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Teoksen artikkelit tarkastelevat muutosta mutta myös jatkuvuutta niin kulttuurin, politiikan kuin teknologiankin näkökulmasta. Varsinkin lähihistoriaa leimaavat mielikuvat nopeista muutoksista, jotka näkyvät yhtä lailla kulutustottumuksissa, naisten...

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On the way to whiteness — christianization, conflict and change in colonial Ovamboland, 1910-1965

Miettinen, Kari
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2005
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Kristinuskon leviämistä on monesti sanottu Afrikan 1900-luvun suurimmaksi murrokseksi. Kari Miettisen väitöskirja tarkastelee tämän murroksen tapahtumista Suomen Lähetysseuran vanhimmalla lähetyskentällä Namibian Ambomaalla...

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The Donor's Works — Old Art in the Collections of the Amos Anderson Art Museum

Malmström, Synnöve; Ojala, Stella; Kokkonen, Jüri
SKS Kirjat, 2015
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The Amos Anderson Art Museum has a small collection of old art that was mostly owned privately by the donor, Amos Anderson (18781961), who was a Finnish newspaper and publishing magnate and a friend of art and culture...

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Hopes and Fears for the Future in Early Modern Sweden, 1500-1850

Karonen, Petri
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2009
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Sääty-yhteiskunnassa ihmisten odotettiin pysyvän säädyssään koko elämänsä ajan. Ihmisillä oli kuitenkin unelmia ja toiveita; monet tavoittelivat parempaa tulevaisuutta. Tähän tarvittiin hyvän onnen lisäksi suunnittelua ja monenlaisia taktiikoita...

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The Emergence of Finnish Book and Reading Culture in the 1700s

Forselle, Cecilia af; Laine, Tuija
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
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Book culture has emerged as an extremely dynamic and border-crossing field of research, internationally and in Finland. The editors and most of the writers of this book were members of the organizing and program committees of the 18th Annual Conference...

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Narrating, Doing, Experiencing — Nordic Folkloristic Perspectives

Kaivola-Bregenhoj, Annikki; Klein, Barbro; Palmenfelt, Ulf
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
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How do people tell of experiences, things and events that mean a lot to them and are unforgettable? Eight Nordic folklorists here examine personal experience stories and the way they are narrated in an attempt to gain an understanding of the people behind...

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