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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
25,00 € (22,73 € vat 0 %)

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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The Army in Finland — during the last decades of Swedish rule (1770-1809)
Screen, John E.O.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
32,00 € (29,09 € vat 0 %)

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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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
19,00 € (17,27 € vat 0 %)

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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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
21,00 € (19,09 € vat 0 %)

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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From The Volga to Siberia — The Finno-Ugric Peoples in Today's Russia
Lehtinen, Ildiko
SKS Kirjat, 2012
24,00 € (21,82 € vat 0 %)

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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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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The Emergence of Finnish Book and Reading Culture in the 1700s
Forselle, Cecilia af; Laine, Tuija
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
31,00 € (28,18 € vat 0 %)

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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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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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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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
24,00 € (21,82 € vat 0 %)

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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The Queen Dowager's Life Regiment in Finland 1772-1808
Screen, J.E.O.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2010
29,00 € (26,36 € vat 0 %)

Leskikuningattaren henkirykmentti tunnetaan parhaiten sen osallisuudesta Ruotsin valtakunnan suurimman linnoituksen, Viaporin, antautumiseen toukokuussa 1808 Suomen sodan aikana. Antautuminen merkitsi rykmentin loppua, mikä on varjostanut sen jälkimainetta...

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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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On the way to whiteness — christianization, conflict and changein colonial Ovamboland, 1910-1965
Miettinen, Kari
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2005
29,00 € (26,36 € vat 0 %)

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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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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Lake Ladoga — The Coastal History of the Greatest Lake in Europe
Lähteenmäki, Maria; Land, Isaac
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2023
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

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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Fibula, Fabula, Fact — The Viking Age in Finland
Ahola, Joonas; Frog; Tolley, Clive
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
43,00 € (39,09 € vat 0 %)

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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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 Best Kitchen in Town — Finnish haute cuisine
Ilamo, Tuija; Jokiniemi, Kimmo; Hagelstam, Katja; McAlester, Gerard
SKS Kirjat, 2007
29,00 € (26,36 € vat 0 %)

Maan suurimman liikepankin ravintolan herkullisimmista menuista ja resepteistä koottu keittokirja tarjoaa läpileikkauksen suomalaiseen gastronomiaan.

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I will sing of what I know — 50 poems from the Kanteletar
Bosley, Keith; Timonen, Senni
SKS Kirjat, 1990
14,00 € (12,73 € vat 0 %)

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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Kalevala guide
Järvinen, Irma-Riitta
SKS Kirjat, 2017
19,00 € (17,27 € vat 0 %)

Kansainvälisille lukijoille suunnattu opas kertoo pähkinänkuoressa keskeiset asiat Kalevalasta, Suomen kirjallisuuden käännetyimmästä merkkiteoksesta. Kirja johdattaa eepoksen juonenkulkuun ja keskeisiin hahmoihin, paikkoihin sekä senteemoihin ja maailmankuvaan...

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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
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

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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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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Words as Events — Cretan Mandinádes in Performance and Composition
Sykäri, Venla
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
29,00 € (26,36 € vat 0 %)

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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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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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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Kalevala and the world' s traditional epics
Honko, Lauri
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002
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On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the (New) Kalevala thirty experts on comparative epic research from 12 countries met in Turku, Finland in August 1999 to debate the role of the Finnish national epic and its scientific significance...

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Elämän ja entisyyden maisemat — Kolgujev nenetsien arjessa, musitelussa ja kerronnassa
Lukin, Karina
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
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Etnografinen tutkimus Kolgujevin saarella Barentsinmerellä asuvien nenetsien kerronnasta ja arkipuheesta.

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Dynamic Finland — The Political System and the Welfare State
Pesonen, Pertti; Riihinen, Olavi
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

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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Touching Things — Ethnological Aspects of Modern Material Culture
Korkiakangas, Pirjo; Lappi, Tiina-Riitta; Niskanen, Heli
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2008
29,00 € (26,36 € vat 0 %)

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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Ainola — The home of Jean and Aino Sibelius
Häkli, Esko; Blomstedt, Severi
SKS Kirjat, 2015
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Ainola The Home of Jean and Aino Sibelius is a lavishly illustrated book that presents Ainola with modern and historical pictures. At the core of the book is the story of Ainola as told by four experts: its development and Sibelius life there, including...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Selkup Mythology — Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies 4
Napolskikh, Vladimir
SKS Kirjat, 2010
49,00 € (44,55 € vat 0 %)

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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Mythic Discourses — Studies in Uralic Traditions
Frog; Siikala, Anna-Leena; Stepanova, Eila
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2012
48,00 € (43,64 € vat 0 %)

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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Noble conceptions of politics in eighteenth-century Sweden (ca 1740-1790)
Wolff, Charlotta
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2008
29,00 € (26,36 € vat 0 %)

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Divine Rulers in a Secular State
Kallinen, Timo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
43,00 € (39,09 € vat 0 %)

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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Kalevipoeg Studies — The Creation and Reception of an Epic
Hasselblatt, Cornelius
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
43,00 € (39,09 € vat 0 %)

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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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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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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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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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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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
34,00 € (30,91 € vat 0 %)

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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Representations of Finnishness in Sweden
Weckström, Lotta
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2010
34,00 € (30,91 € vat 0 %)

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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Hopes and Fears for the Future in Early Modern Sweden, 1500-1850
Karonen, Petri
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2009
24,00 € (21,82 € vat 0 %)

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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Nodes of Contemporary Finnish Literature
Kirstinä, Leena
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2012
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This book examines phenomena from Finnish and Finnish-Swedish literature written in the years between the 1980s and the first decade of the new millennium. Its objective is to study this interesting era of literary history in Finland and to sketch some...

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Sport, Recreation and Green Space in the European City
Clark, Peter; Niemi, Marjaana; Niemelä, Jari
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2009
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Green space has become a major issue in European cities in recent years as a result of enhanced environmental awareness, urban marketing, planning policy and growing population densities. Up to now, however, the subject of sports areas and grounds has...

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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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Tradition through Modernity — Postmodernism and the Nation-State in Folklore Scholarship
Anttonen, Pertti J.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2005
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

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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Modernisation in Russia since 1900
Kangaspuro, Markku; Smith, Jeremy
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

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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Varkaus and its people — a hundred years
Itkonen, Hannu
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2005
19,00 € (17,27 € vat 0 %)

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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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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Helsinki - the innovative city — historical perspectives
Bell, Marjatta; Hietala, Marjatta
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002
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Miten ja miksi Helsingistä tuli innovatiivinen kaupunki ja Suomesta johtava high-tech maa? Helsingin vaiheita innovatiivisena pääkaupunkina seurataan Suomen autonomian alusta uudelle vuosituhannelle, jolloin Suomi nousi monien mittarien mukaan maailman kilpailukykyisimmäksi maaksi...

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Changing Scenes — Encounters between European and Finnish Fin de Siècle
Lyytikäinen, Pirjo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2003
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Six articles in Changing scenes represent the ongoing reassessment of fin de siecle literature in Finnish research. The period was seen in earlier research as something of a national renaissance or golden age and interpreted in the light of its national symbols and meanings...

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Passages Westward
Lähteenmäki, Maria; Snellman, Hanna
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
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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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On foreign ground — moving between countries and categories
Karttunen, Marie-Louise; Ruckenstein, Minna
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
29,00 € (26,36 € vat 0 %)

The essays in this collection explore classical anthropological questions in modern sites, from Ghana to Karelia, from India to Italy, from Kuala Lumpur to St. Petersburg. They examine change and continuity through the lens of memory and sense of place,...

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Handwritten Newspapers — An Alternative Medium during the Early Modern and Modern Periods
Droste, Heiko; Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. The primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social practice...

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Myth and Mentality
Siikala, Anna-Leena
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

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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Talk in Interaction — Comparative Dimensions
Haakana, Markku; Laakso, Minna; Lindstrom, Jan
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
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Talk in interaction - Comparative dimensions is a collection of current conversation analytical work on interactional practices. How do speakers correct the errors made by other speakers? How is disappointment expressed in interaction? How are disputes...

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Constructing a legend — the international exhibitions of finnish architecture 1957-1967
Ceferin, Petra
SKS Kirjat, 2003
24,00 € (21,82 € vat 0 %)

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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The Helsinki University Library — The National Library of Finland, 1640-2010
Knapas, Rainer
SKS Kirjat, 2012
34,00 € (30,91 € vat 0 %)

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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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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Diplomatic Deceptions — Anglo-Soviet relations and the Fate of Finland 1944-1948
Evans, Helena P.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
34,00 € (30,91 € vat 0 %)

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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The burden of remembering — recollections & representations of the 20th century
Koresaar, Ene; Lauk, Epp; Kuutma, Kristin
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2009
29,00 € (26,36 € vat 0 %)

The Burden of Remembering is a book that focuses on two major turning points in the 20th century history that determine the formation of that century as a realm of memory - the Second World War and the collapse of Communist regimes and ideology in Europe...

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The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970 — History, ideology, methodology
Briody, Mícheál
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
32,00 € (29,09 € vat 0 %)

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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Identities in Practice — A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh Immigrants in Finland and in California
Hirvi, Laura
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2013
44,00 € (40,00 € vat 0 %)

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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Novel Districts — Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm
Malmio, Kristina; Österlund, Mia
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

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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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
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

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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From war to cold war — Anglo-Finnish relations in the 20th cntury
Aunesluoma, Juhana
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
28,00 € (25,45 € vat 0 %)

Suomalaisten ja brittiläisten historiantutkijoiden yhteistyön tuloksena syntynyt From War to Cold War käsittää yksitoista artikkelia maiden välisten suhteiden kehittymisestä talvisodasta aina kylmän sodan päättymiseen ja Suomen EU-jäsenyyteen asti...

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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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Gendered Rural Spaces
Olsson, Pia; Ruotsala, Helena
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2009
28,00 € (25,45 € vat 0 %)

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 Soviet Union, Finland and the Cold War — the finnish card in the soviet foreignpolicy, 1956-1959
Kähönen, Aappo
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
25,00 € (22,73 € vat 0 %)

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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Defining Self — Essays on emergent identities in Russia Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Branch, Michael
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2009
36,00 € (32,73 € vat 0 %)

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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On toponymic constructions as an alternative to naming patterns in describing Finnish lake names
Leino, Antti
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
29,00 € (26,36 € vat 0 %)

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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Aino Kallas — Negotiations with Modernity
Kurvet-Käosaar, Leena; Rojola, Lea
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
32,00 € (29,09 € vat 0 %)

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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Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature — Urban Experiences in Finnish Prose Fiction 1890–1940
Ameel, Lieven
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2014
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

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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Mysterious Minds — The Making of Private and Collective Consciousness in Marja-Liisa Vartio's Novels
Nykänen, Elise
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

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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Personal Agency at the Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720
Karonen, Petri; Hakanen, Marko
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2017
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

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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Palavat tornit - Burning towers — Otteita Suomen taiteen 1980-luvusta - Excerpts from the Finnish Art of the 1980s
Valjakka, Timo; Garner, Mike; McCracken, Donald; Vähäpassi, Kari
SKS Kirjat, 2016
35,00 € (31,82 € vat 0 %)

Kuvataiteen 1980-luku oli myrskyisä vuosikymmen, jolloin muurit murtuivat ja uusi, yksilöllisesti ajatteleva taiteilijapolvi nousi esiin. He tekivät suuria ja voimakkaita maalauksia, arvoituksellisia veistoksia sekä monikerroksisia video- ja valokuvateoksia, jotka valloittivat museot ja galleriat...

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Genre -Text - Interpretation — Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Folklore and Beyond
Koski, Kaarina; Savolainen, Ulla; Frog, Mr
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
47,00 € (42,73 € vat 0 %)

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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On the Border of Language and Dialect
Palander, Marjatta; Riionheimo, Helka; Koivisto, Vesa
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

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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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
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

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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Being a Roman magistrate — office-holding and Roman identity in late antique Gaul
Sivonen, Pauli
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
29,00 € (26,36 € vat 0 %)

Myöhäisantiikin ajalla Gallian alueella asuneet roomalaiset aristokraatit joutuivat monin tavoin pohtimaan, keitä he oikeastaan olivat. Kun Rooman imperiumin rajojen takaa rynnänneet germaanit valtasivat Galliasta palan toisensa jälkeen, käsitys Rooman ikuisuudesta horjui...

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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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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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Imperial Imprints — Post-Soviet St Petersburg
Hellberg-Hirn, Elena
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2003
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Pietarissa syntynyt, mutta Ruotsissa ja Suomessa tutkijanuran luonut Elena Hellberg-Hirn tuntee kohteensa läpikotaisin. Hän on Pietarin juhlavuoden kunniaksi laatinut syntymäkaupungistaan häikäisevän upeasti kirjoitetun pienoistutkielmien sarjan...

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The Ministry of Finance — Two Hundred Years of State-building, Nation-building and Crisis Management inFinland
Tiihonen, Seppo
SKS Kirjat, 2012
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Valtiovarainministeriön 200-vuotishistoria tarkastelee ministeriön vaiheita osana maamme yhteiskunnallista ja taloudellista kehitystä autonomian alkuajoista tähän päivään. Suomen oman valtiontalouden syntysanat lausui keisari Aleksanteri I Porvoon valtiopäivillä 1809...

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Ideology and argument — studies in British, Finnish and Hungarian thought
Halmesvirta, Anssi
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
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Teoksen tutkimukset viktoriaanisen Englannin, autonomian ajan loppupuolen Suomen ja Unkarin aatehistoriasta osoittavat yhtälailla eurooppalaisen ajattelun vivahteikkuuden kuin siinä vallinneet yhdensuuntaiset poliittiset virtauksetkin...

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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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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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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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