In her comprehensive study of Karelian oral poetry Lotte Tarkka places this tradition within historical and ethnographic realities, contexts of local and elite ideologies, and the system of folklore genres....
Folklore Fellows' Communications 316
Folklorists are not only interested in old or even dying traditions. They have a keen eye for emerging traditions as well, and since the 1980s there has been an interest...
Sagen, die von Auseinandersetzungen mit in mehr oder weniger großer Zahl eindringenden Feinden handeln, die sog. Tschudensagen, bilden eine zentrale Gruppe innerhalb der saamischen Erzähltradition. Diesen...
Le présent ouvrage, résultat de l’adaptation de l’oeuvre laureate du prix de recherche Abdulaziz Saud al-Babtain, constitue la permière monographien consacrée à la region de la steppe d’Écija, un territoire...
Heritage and tourism have become inextricably linked. Depending on the view point, the effect of this link can be seen either negative or positive. Does tourism produce in authentic and falsified tradition,...
The custom of sacrificing animals on St. Martin’s Eve (November 10), or ‘spilling blood for St. Martin’, was known in a large part of Ireland until recently. This ritual offering has played an important...
Este estudio compendia temas inéditos o escasamente investigados del pasado islámico de Murcia. La información escrita y arqueológica combinada e interpretada revelan los paradigmas de la vida cotidiana...
The classification system of the types of folk tales published by Antti Aarne in 1910 was a much needed and courageous project. Bronislava Kerbelyté has classified more than 40,000 variants of Lithuanian...
The classification system of the types of folk tales published by Antti Aarne in 1910 was a much needed and courageous project. Bronislava Kerbelyté has classified more than 40,000 variants of Lithuanian...
Dear Brother, Gracious Maecenas: Latin letters of the Gyldenstolpe Brothers (1661-1680) presents Latin letters exchanged between six sons of Michael Wexionius Gyldenstolpe, the first Professor of History...
Edited by Pekka Hakamies & Anneli Honko
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Folklore Fellows' Communications 304
Lauri Honko (1932-2002) developed in particular theories and concepts relating to...
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Folklore Fellows' Communications 302
This study charts the ways in which Buile Shuibhne has been interpreted in twentieth-century scholarship, by paying particular...
This work analyses the shamanistic images and metaphors encountered in the oral poetry of the Baltic Finns and at the same time examines the action of the ecstatic tietäjäs and the seers who fell into...
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
FF Communications 300
The documentation of folk legends in Sweden was begun in the sixteenth century, and reached its peak in the first half of the twentieth century....
The catalog of international tale types (ATU) based on the system of Aarne / Thompson constitutes a fundamentally new edition with extensive additions and innovations. The descriptions of the tale types...
The catalog of international tale types (ATU) based on the system of Aarne / Thompson constitutes a fundamentally new edition with extensive additions and innovations. The descriptions of the tale types...
The catalog of international tale types (ATU) based on the system of Aarne / Thompson constitutes a fundamentally new edition with extensive additions and innovations. The descriptions of the tale types...
This work analyses the shamanistic images and metaphors encountered in the oral poetry of the Baltic Finns and at the same time examines the action of the ecstatic tietäjäs and the seers who fell into...
