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Heikki Meriläinen and discussions on folklore.
The effects of globalization and the momentous changes to the political map of Europe have led to a world in which multiculturalism and ethnic differences have become issues of increasing importance. In Nordic countries, relationships between new immigrants, local ethnic groups and majorities are created in ongoing and sometimes heated discussions. In transforming multicultural societies, folklore has taken on new manifestations and meanings. How can folklore studies illuminate the present cultural, political and historical changes? "Creating Diversities. Folklore, Religion and the Politics of Heritage", edited by Anna-Leena Siikala, Barbro Klein and Stein R. Mathisen, seeks answers to this ...
Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological research and teaching/learning material on a region of great cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet era.
"Kahleeton vanki: Elämäkerrallinen kuvaus" – Heikki Meriläinen. Julkaisija - Good Press. Good Press on moneen tyylilajiin keskittynyt laajamittainen julkaisija. Pyrimme julkaisemaan klassikoita ja kaunokirjallisuutta sekä vielä löytämättömiä timantteja. Tuotamme kirjat jotka palavat halusta tulla luetuksi. Good Press painokset ovat tarkasti editoitu ja formatoitu vastaamaan nykyajan lukijan tarpeita ottaen huomioon kaikki e-lukijat ja laitteet. Tavoitteemme on luoda lukijaystävällisiä e-kirjoja, saatavilla laadukkaassa digitaalisessa muodossa.
"Mooses ja hänen hevosensa" – Heikki Meriläinen. Julkaisija - Good Press. Good Press on moneen tyylilajiin keskittynyt laajamittainen julkaisija. Pyrimme julkaisemaan klassikoita ja kaunokirjallisuutta sekä vielä löytämättömiä timantteja. Tuotamme kirjat jotka palavat halusta tulla luetuksi. Good Press painokset ovat tarkasti editoitu ja formatoitu vastaamaan nykyajan lukijan tarpeita ottaen huomioon kaikki e-lukijat ja laitteet. Tavoitteemme on luoda lukijaystävällisiä e-kirjoja, saatavilla laadukkaassa digitaalisessa muodossa.
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. These archive materials were not only collected by scholars, but also by the ordinary rural populace interested in their own traditions, by performers and their audiences. With its myriad voices, this body of source material thus provides new avenues for the researcher seeking to penetrate popular thought. What does oral tradition tell us about the way its performers think and feel? What sorts of beliefs and ideas are transmitted in...
Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) is Finland’s greatest writer. His great 1870 novel The Brothers Seven has been translated 59 times into 34 languages. Is he world literature, or not? In Aleksis Kivi and/as World Literature Douglas Robinson uses this question as a wedge for exploring the nature and nurture of world literature, and the contributions made by translators to it. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of major and minor literature, Robinson argues that translators have mainly “majoritized” Kivi—translated him respectfully—and so created images of literary tourism that ill suit recognition as world literature. Far better, he insists, is the impulse to minoritize—to find and celebrate the minor writer in Kivi, who “sends the major language racing.”
This collection of writings explores European borders from the 15th century to the present. The territorial scope ranges from the Arctic Ocean and Scandinavia to Central Europe. In these papers, borders are understood not only as separating lines in the terrain, but also as socially constructed divisions in people's choices, speeches, actions, and memories. Borders are not only drawn: they are imagined, negotiated, and remembered. (Series: Studies on Middle and Eastern Europe / Mittel- und Ostmitteleuropastudien - Vol. 11)
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. These archive materials were not only collected by scholars, but also by the ordinary rural populace interested in their own traditions, by performers and their audiences. With its myriad voices, this body of source material thus provides new avenues for the researcher seeking to penetrate popular thought. What does oral tradition tell us about the way its performers think and feel? What sorts of beliefs and ideas are transmitted in...