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SKS publishes academic literature in English under the series Studia Fennica. Based on peer evaluation, the selection of the published manuscripts is made by the publication committee constituted by experts. The authors are among the world’s top scholars in their respective areas of expertise.

The Studia Fennica Series, which dates back to 1933, showcases work on the Finnish language, literature, history and culture. Studia Fennica publishes recent and novel research in English, in the form of both monographs and edited volumes which often combine Finnish and international contributions. The series comprises six sub-series: Anthropologica, Ethnologica, Folkloristica, Historica, Linguistica, and Litteraria, each of which has its own editor-in-chief. The volumes in each series are internationally refereed.

Most of the publications of Studia Fennica series are freely available in open access on oa.finlit.fi.

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Shipping and Commodity Flows in the Late Eighteenth-Century Baltic

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...

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The Culture of the Finnish Roma

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...

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

Leino, Antti

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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Expressions and Impressions

Väina, Mari; Särg, Taive

Singing is a universal mode of human communication, integral to cultural and social life and serving a wide range of culture-specific functions. This scholarly volume examines traditional singing as both a cultural phenomenon and an embodied vocal practice,...

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Arctic Hysteria and Other Strange Northern Emotions

Rossi, Riikka; Kankkunen, Sarianna; Nykänen, Elise

This volume opens a new perspective on the thriving area of research on the imagined North by studying emotions in the light of case studies in Finnish literature. It addresses the cultural history of Arctic hysteria and maps other strange emotions depicted...

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Handwritten Newspapers

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...

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Lake Ladoga

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...

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

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...

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Fibula, Fabula, Fact

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...

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Moving in the USSR

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...

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Hidden Rituals and Public Performances

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...

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Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations, 1870-1990

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...

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The Finnish Case System

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...

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Personal Agency at the Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720

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...

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Performative Histories, Foundational Fictions

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...

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Gendered Rural Spaces

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...

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Kalevipoeg Studies

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...

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Linking Clauses and Actions in Social Interaction

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...

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White Field, Black Seeds

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...

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Sociolinguistic Variation in Urban Linguistic Landscapes

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...

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Novels, Histories, Novel Nations

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...

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The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970

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...

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Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature

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...

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Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song

Sykäri, Venla; Fabb, Nigel

This interdisciplinary collection explores the forms and aesthetics of rhyme in a variety of languages and from a variety of perspectives. A wide-ranging introduction that ends with a list and associated bibliography of rhyming traditions of the world is followed by thirteen chapters...

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Modernisation in Russia since 1900

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...

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Where is the Field?

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...

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The Enemy Within

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...

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Divine Rulers in a Secular State

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...

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Novel Districts

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...

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Myth and Mentality

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...

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Words as Events

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...

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Oral Tradition and Book Culture

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...

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Tradition through Modernity

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...

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Fashion Meets Socialism

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...

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Names in Focus

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...

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Strategies of sanity and survival

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...

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Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises

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...

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Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature

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...

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Her Own Worth

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,...

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On the Border of Language and Dialect

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...

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Touching Things

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...

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Terrains of Imagination in Contemporary Finnish Literature

Kankkunen, Sarianna

This book is the first study on Maarit Verronen, an award-winning Finnish contemporary author, whose career spans four decades and several genres. The study explores experiences of space in Verronen's writing, drawing from spatial studies, an interdisciplinary approach within the humanities...

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Genetic Criticism in Motion

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...

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Shattering Minds

Ovaska, Anna

Shattering Minds is the first broad study on representations of mental illness in modernist Finnish literature. Through four case studies, it shows how in modernist texts mental suffering is not understood as something that is "inside" a person's mind...

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Aino Kallas

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...

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The Limits of Patriarchy

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...

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Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden

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...

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Memories of My Town

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...

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

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...

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Conversation Analytic Perspectives to Digital Interaction

Koivisto, Aino; Vepsäläinen, Heidi; Virtanen, Mikko T.

When do people greet each other on WhatsApp? How do people start chats on Tinder? How are emotions displayed in video-mediated workplace interaction? How do people converse with a social robot? This volume offers a state-of-the-art collection of article...

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Continued Violence and Troublesome Pasts

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,...

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Minimal reference

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...

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Registers of Communication

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...

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Dwelling in Political Landscapes

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,...

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Transnational Death

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...

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On the Legacy of Lutheranism in Finland

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...

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Storied and Supernatural Places

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...

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Genre -Text - Interpretation

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...

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Literacy Skills as Local Intangible Capital

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...

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Sport, Recreation and Green Space in the European City

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...

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Mythic Discourses

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...

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Beyond the horizon

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...

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Nodes of Contemporary Finnish Literature

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...

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Versification

Frog; Grünthal, Satu; Kallio, Kati; Niemi, Jarkko

Versification describes the marriage of language and poetic form through which poetry is produced. Formal principles, such as metre, alliteration, rhyme, or parallelism, take precedence over syntax and prosody, resulting in expressions becoming organised as verse rather than prose...

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Representations of Finnishness in Sweden

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...

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Riddles

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...

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Dynamic Finland

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...

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Talk in Interaction

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...

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Defining Self

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,...

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Narrating, Doing, Experiencing

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...

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The Springs of Democracy

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...

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Identities in Practice

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...

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Edhina Ekogidho - Names as Links

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...

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On foreign ground

Karttunen, Marie-Louise; Ruckenstein, Minna

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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Responsibility and Language Practices in Place

Siragusa, Laura; Ferguson, Jenanne K.

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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Across the Oceans

Laakso, Seija-Riitta

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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Registers of Communication

Agha, Asif; Frog

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Changing Scenes

Lyytikäinen, Pirjo

Six articles in Changing scenes represent the ongoing reassessment of fin de siècle 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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Beyond the Horizon

Sather, Clifford; Kaartinen, Timo

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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Mysterious Minds

Nykänen, Elise

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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Rhetorics of Nordic Democracy

Kurunmäki, Jussi; Strang, Johan

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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Passages Westward

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...

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Studia Fennica

Studia Fennica

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