“Collaborative Representations. Interpreting the Creation of a Sámi Ethnography and a Seto Epic”
CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS are constructed through interaction of cultural researchers and culture bearers. A study of collaborative processes that resulted in published representations of Sami and Seto traditional culture requires an exploration of the emerged voices and representational agencies, editorial activities and reception histories. The focus of this book revolves around two manifestly representative texts from […]
“Whom Does God Favor: the Wicked or the Righteous?”
In his research, Heda Jason aims to provide a detailed description of a subgenre of folk tales, namely stories about rewards and punishments. FF Communications 240
“Sources and analogues of the Uncle Remus tales”
….And yet, Harris is the first white writer to be recognized as transcribing African-American speech and folklore. As Robert Bone noted in 1975, the subversive folk hero Brer Rabbitt provided “the missing link between the Afro-American folktale and the Afro-American short story” (Bickley 1981: 130). In fact, since the first volume of Uncle Remus tales […]
“Edige : A Karakalpak Oral Epic as performed by Jumabay Bazarov”
Edige is one of the most esteemed oral epics of the Karakalpaks, a Turkic-speaking people, who live on the mouth of the Amu Darya and the shores of the Aral Sea. Edige is a historical personage from the time of Timur at the turn of the 14th to the 15th century. He is considered the […]
“The Game of Rich and Poor: A Comparative Study in Traditional Singing Games”
Elsa Elina Enäjärvi-Haavio, also Elsa Eklund, (1901–1951) was a Finnish folklorist who carried out extensive research into folk poetry in the 1930s. As a result, in 1947 she was appointed docent of Finnish and folk poetics at the University of Helsinki. She was an influential member of many organizations, including the Finnish Federation of University […]
“Textualising the Siri Epic”
How does an illiterate singer produce a long oral epic? What is the origin of his “text”, available only for a fleeting moment at its performance? How can a multifaceted oral performance be transformed into a book? The primary oral textualisation and the secondary written codification of the Siri epic, 15,683 lines, are described in […]
“The Siri Epic as Performed by Gopala Naika. Part 2”
Mr Gopala Naika is one of the many talented singers of oral epics in Tulunaadu, the land of Tulu speakers in southern Karnataka, India. The Finnish-Indian team, Prof. Lauri Honko and Ms Anneli Honko, M.A., from the University of Turku and Prof. Viveka Rai and Dr Chinnappa Gowda from the University of Mangalore, documented his […]
“Reciprocity systems of the rural society in the Finnish-Karelian culture area: With special reference to social intercourse of the youth”
Martti Haavio’s study on old Finnish-Karelian epic poems in the Kalevala metre reveals the many faces and roles of their central personage, Väinämöinen, the eternal sage. On the basis of extensive comparative material he shows that there are at least two basic roles for Väinämöinen in the poems, the shaman and the cultural her, whose […]
“Väinämöinen: Eternal Sage”
Martti Haavio’s study on old Finnish-Karelian epic poems in the Kalevala metre reveals the many faces and roles of their central personage, Väinämöinen, the eternal sage. On the basis of extensive comparative material he shows that there are at least two basic roles for Väinämöinen in the poems, the shaman and the cultural her, whose […]
“The Ballad of Heer Halewijn: Its Forms and Variations in Western Europe”
This ballad about a maid hwo kills a would-be lady-killer is known in England as “Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight”, in France as “Renaud le Tueur de Femmes”, in Scandinavia as “Kvindemorderen”, and in the Netherlands and Belgium as “Heer Halewijn”; in the German-speaking area it is called “Ulinger” or “Ulrich”. Having analysed the features […]
“The Morphology of North American Indian Folktales”
The present work is a scientific study of a primitive art-form . The art-form is the folktale of the North American Indians; the study is scientific insofar as a hypothetical ab stract model is constructed and tested . The structural model of North American Indian folktales is tested by comparing empirically its properties with those […]
“The Mohave Heroic Epic of Inyo-Kutavêre”
The Mohave Heroic Epic, the study of Inyo-kutavêre’s Great Telling of how the Mohave regained their Given, then Lost Valley, belongs to the discipline of Ethnopoetics, one that has progressed by leaps and bounds since Alfred Kroeber chanced to record the tale as it was translated live into English for him in 1902, and with […]
“Carl Wilhelm von Sydow. A Swedish Pioneer in Folklore”
IN THIS BOOK, Professor Emeritus Nils-Arvid Bringeus provides a detailed analysis of the founder of folklore research in Sweden, Professor Carl Wilhelm von Sydow (1878-1952). We are introduced to a fascinating personality and able to follow his persevering struggle to gain acceptance for a new academic discipline. Von Sydow took a highly active interest in […]
“Types of Indic Oral Tales: India, Pakistan, and Ceylon”
The authors have analysed a corpus of oral Indian narrative material containing practically all the collections published in European languages and a selection of oral tales available only in native languages. They apply the familiar taxonomy of the Types of the Folktale by Aarne and Thompson. The work supplements the earlier motif index by Thompson […]
“The New Comparative Method: Structural and Symbolic Analysis of the Allomotifs of “Snow White””
An examination of the mystery of folktales, this study takes a look into the heart of one folktale in order to use it as a model for all folktales. It analyses over seventy folk versions of “Snow White” in order to reveal their shared narrative core of episodes and themes. The investigation documents the way […]
“Mikael Hakim”
Ajaloolised romaanid on ehk soome tuntuima kirjaniku Mika Waltari loomingu kõige väärtuslikum osa. Neist leiame inimese käekäigu tähtsamad pidepunktid. „Mikael Hakim” on Waltari ajaloolistest romaanidest kõige mahukam ja jõuab nüüd eesti lugejani uues tõlkes ja tervikuna.Mikael Hakim on soome poiss, tuttav romaanist „Mikael Karvajalg”. Euroopa murrangulistel aastatel, kui meie linnade tänavaid tallasid türklased, saab ka […]
“Mikael Karvajalg. Mikael Hakim. 2 raamatut”
Raamat “Mikael Karvajalg” Mika Waltari ajaloolise romaaniga “Mikael Karvajalg” jätkab kirjastus Varrak Mika Waltari loomingu uustõlgete avaldamist eesti keeles. Romaan kujutab soome päritolu noormehe Mikael Karvajala elu ja seiklusi varauusaegses Euroopas. Peategelase pilgu läbi saab lugeja tuttavaks olulisemate poliitiliste, majanduslike ja religioossete sündmustega Euroopas 16. sajandil, ajal, mil sarnaselt tänasegi päevaga leidsid aset suured muutused. […]
“Jumalate surm. Julianus Usutaganeja”
Triloogias “Kristus ja Antikristus” uurib Merežkovski endale olulist teemat: kultuuride kokkupõrget murrangulistel aegadel. Ta käsitleb värvikalt üksikisiku saatust antiteeside – paganlus ja kristlus, headus ja kurjus – ristteel. Esimeses osas on peategelaseks keiser Julianus, kes ei suuda leppida, et “kõikidest maailma otstest lendavad mustad mungad nagu kaarnad Hellase valgest marmorist ihule ja nokivad seda kui […]
“Хроники Акаши. Книга жизни”
Серия: Классика мысли Хроники Акаши… таинственное, завораживающее явление, корни которого лежат глубоко в истории философии. Впервые термин “Акаша” встречается в древнеиндийских священных текстах. Можно сказать, что Хроники Акаши служили человечеству на протяжении всей его истории, но только сейчас этот кладезь информации и знаний становится общедоступным. Книга содержит в себе трех ведущих мистиков двадцатого века, имевших […]
“Juhus”
Joseph Conradi romaan „Juhus” ilmus inglise keeles kõigepealt järjejutuna paralleelselt Inglismaal ja Ameerikas, inglise raamatuversioon avaldati aastal 1914. See romaan tõi autorile laialdasema menu ja rohkem tulu kui ükski varasem kriitikute poolt kõrgelt hinnatud teos ning jääb tema loomingus mitmeti erandlikuks. Esimest korda on Conradil siin peategelaseks naine, noor neiu Flora de Barral, kes jääb […]
