Ilamo, Tuija; Jokiniemi, Kimmo
Maan suurimman liikepankin ravintolan herkullisimmista menuista ja resepteistä koottu keittokirja tarjoaa läpileikkauksen suomalaiseen gastronomiaan.
Kaukiainen, Yrjö
Vessel traffic and commodity flows expanded at a remarkable pace from the 1750s to the late 1780s, making maritime trade one of the most dynamic sectors of the international economy in an era otherwise marked by slow growth...
Markkanen, Airi; Åberg, Kai
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...
Leino, Antti
Monitieteinen artikkeliväitöskirja yhdistää nimistöntutkimukseen tietojenkäsittelytieteen menetelmiä ja tarkastelee tuloksia kognitiivisen kielentutkimuksen kautta. Tutkimus lähtee peruskartan järvennimien analyysistä, jonka tarkoituksena on löytää säännönmukaisesti...
Moorhouse, Johathan
Englanninkielinen laitos kirjasta Modernismin etujoukko. Modernista arkkitehtuuristaan kuuluisa Suomi haki inspiraatiotaan vuosien 1930-1955 modernismin pioneereista. Erityisesti Helsingissä nämä mestariteokset heijastivat nuorekasta ja elinvoimaista...
Westerlund, Lars
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...
Juslenius, Daniel
Nelikielinen (latina, suomi, ruotsi, englanti) versio Daniel Jusleniuksen väitöskirja vuodelta 1700. "Suomalaisuuden isä" ja "totinen fennomaani" Daniel Juslenius (16761752) oli oman aikansa kulttuurin monitoimimies...
Kuurne, Laura; Gutman, Laura; Vainio-Kurtakko, Maria; Sivonen, Pauli; Karppanen, Hanna
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...
Puolamäki, Laura
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...
Lehtinen, Ildiko
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...
Droste, Heiko; Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti
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...
Matikainen, Olli; Lidman, Satu
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...
Lähteenmäki, Maria; Land, Isaac
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...
Forselle, Cecilia af; Laine, Tuija
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...
Ahola, Joonas; Frog; Tolley, Clive
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...
Hakamies, Pekka
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...
Siikala, Anna-Leena; Oleg, Ulyashev
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...
Ritola, Suvi; Väänänen, Niko
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...
Koivunen, Leila; Merivirta, Raita
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 in...
Jaakola, Minna; Onikki-Rantajääskö, Tiina
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...
Karonen, Petri; Hakanen, Marko
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...
Koivunen, Anu
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...
Häkkinen, Kaisa
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...
Olsson, Pia; Ruotsala, Helena
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...
Aittomaa, Sofia
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...
Virtanen, Timo
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...
Hasselblatt, Cornelius
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...
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.
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...
Laury, Ritva; Etelämäki, Marja; Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth
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...
Kuismin, Anna; Driscoll, M.J.
White field, black seeds - who can sow? Although the riddle from which this these words are taken comes from oral tradition, it refers to the ability to write, a skill which in most Nordic countries was not regarded as necessary for everyone...
Henricson, Sofie; Syrjälä, Väinö; Bagna, Carla; Bellinzona, Martina
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...
Kaljundi, Linda; Laanes, Eneken; Pikkanen, Ilona
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...
Briody, Mícheál
Between 1935 and 1970 the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann), 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...
Karonen, Petri
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...
Hägg, Samuli; Sevänen, Erkki; Turunen, Risto
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...
Kangaspuro, Markku; Smith, Jeremy
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...
Hirvi, Laura; Snellman, Hanna
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...
Koskivirta, Anu
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...
Itkonen, Hannu
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...
Kallinen, Timo
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...
Malmio, Kristina; Österlund, Mia
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...
Napolskikh, Vladimir; Siikala, Anna-Leena; Hoppal, Mihaly; Kulemzin, Vladislav M.; Lukina, Nadezhda V.; Moldanov, Timofei A.; Moldanova, Tatyana A.
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...
Siikala, Anna-Leena
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...
Sykäri, Venla
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...
Anttonen, Pertti; Forselles, Cecilia af; Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti
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...
Anttonen, Pertti J.
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...
Hellberg-Hirn, Elena
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...
Gronow, Jukka; Zhuravlev, Sergey
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...
Ainiala, Terhi; Saarelma, Minna; Sjöblom, Paula
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...
Lähteenmäki, Maria; Snellman, Hanna
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...
Hanska, Jussi
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...
Stark, Laura
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...
Ameel, Lieven
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...
Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika
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,...
Screen, John E.O.
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...
Palander, Marjatta; Riionheimo, Helka; Koivisto, Vesa
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...
Korkiakangas, Pirjo; Lappi, Tiina-Riitta; Niskanen, Heli
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...
Katajamäki, Sakari; Pulkkinen, Veijo
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...
Kurvet-Käosaar, Leena; Rojola, Lea
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...
Stark, Laura
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...
Vase, Kai
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...
Gröndahl, Satu; Rantonen, Eila
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...
Åström, Anna-Maria; Korkiakangas, Pirjo; Olsson, Pia
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...
Wolff, Charlotta
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...
Orenius, Melanie; Porola, Laura
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”...
Malmström, Synnöve
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...
Kivimäki, Ville; Karonen, Petri
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,...
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...
Laury, Ritva
This book presents some of the most recent research on Finnish and Estonian pronouns and other minimal forms of reference. The articles deal with features particular to the pronoun systems of Finnic languages, such as logophoricity and the use of demonstratives...
Agha, Asif; Frog
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...
Lounela, Anu; Berglund, Eeva; Kallinen, Timo
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,...
Saramo, Samira; Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika; Snellman, Hanna
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...
Sinnemäki, Kaius; Portman, Anneli; Tilli, Jouni; Nelson, Robert H.
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...
Valk, Ülo; Sävborg, Daniel
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...
Tiihonen, Seppo
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...
Napolskikh, Vladimir
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...
Nikkari, Virpi; Kekäläinen, Tarja; Suominen, Tapio
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...
Koski, Kaarina; Savolainen, Ulla; Frog, Mr
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...
Kotilainen, Sofia
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...
Heinonen, Visa; Peltonen, Matti
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...
Müller, Leos; Ojala, Jari
Tieto on nostettu viime vuosikymmeninä yhdeksi keskeiseksi tekijäksi taloudellisessa toiminnassa. Teoksessa analysoidaan taloudellisen tiedon muutosta pitkällä aikavälillä. Kohteena ovat tiedon välitysmekanismit, organisaatiot ja valtioiden toiminta tiedonkulun tehostamiseksi...
Clark, Peter; Niemi, Marjaana; Niemelä, Jari
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...
Frog; Siikala, Anna-Leena; Stepanova, Eila
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...
Screen, J.E.O.
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...
Sather, Clifford; Kaartinen, Timo
Artikkelikokoelman lähtökohtana on ajatus kulttuurista pragmaattisten kontekstien ja kokemuksen tasojen välisiä suhteita jäsentävänä maailmankuvana. Artikkelit tarkastelevat etnografisten esimerkkien valossa, mikä määrittää kunkin yhteiskunnan horisonttia...
Kirstinä, Leena
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...
Bosley, Keith; Timonen, Senni
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...
Weckström, Lotta
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...
Kaivola-Bergenhöj, Annikki
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...
Pesonen, Pertti; Riihinen, Olavi
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...
Haakana, Markku; Laakso, Minna; Lindstrom, Jan
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...
Branch, Michael
Kansainvälisen tutkijakaartin artikkelit tarkastelevat identiteetin muotoutumista Venäjällä, yhdessä maailman suurimmista monikansallisista valtioista. Teoksessa kuvaillaan, miten identiteettien moninaisuus alkoi näkyä jo Venäjän keisarikunnan aikana,...
Kaivola-Bregenhoj, Annikki; Klein, Barbro; Palmenfelt, Ulf
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...
Ihalainen, Pasi
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...
Lukin, Karina
Etnografinen tutkimus Kolgujevin saarella Barentsinmerellä asuvien nenetsien kerronnasta ja arkipuheesta.
Koresaar, Ene; Lauk, Epp; Kuutma, Kristin
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...
Hirvi, Laura
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...
Saarelma-Maunumaa, Minna
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...
Kangaspuro, Markku; Nikula, Jouko; Stodolsky, Ivor
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...
Ceferin, Petra
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...