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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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45,00 €

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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Toimitusaika 7-14 arkipäivää

32,00 €

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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43,00 €

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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34,00 €

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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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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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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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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29,00 €

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Uutuus

Living Lament

Silvonen, Viliina; Stepanova, Eila

This edited volume opens new approaches to lament research by analysing the intersections between ideologies and lament traditions, providing advancements in methodologies and the knowledge of domains that emerge at this intersection...

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Valikko

Studia Fennica Folkloristica

Suodata

Expressions and Impressions

The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970

Kalevipoeg Studies

Hidden Rituals and Public Performances

Myth and Mentality

Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song

Tradition through Modernity

Words as Events

Oral Tradition and Book Culture

Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises

Storied and Supernatural Places

Mythic Discourses

Genre -Text - Interpretation

Narrating, Doing, Experiencing

Riddles

Living Lament