@article{JEF, author = {Aimar Ventsel}, title = { Old Colony Mennonites in Argentina and Bolivia. Nation Making, Religious Conflict and Imagination of the Future}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {3}, number = {2}, year = {2011}, keywords = {book review}, abstract = {Review for the book by Lorenzo Canás Bottos, Old Colony Mennonites in Argentina and Bolivia. Nation Making, Religious Conflict and Imagination of the Future. Leiden, Boston: Brill 2008, 216 pages.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {105–106}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/16} }
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@article{JEF, author = {Maria Krom}, title = { Contested Spaces. Meaningful Places. Contemporary Performances of Place and Belonging in Spain and Brazil}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {3}, number = {2}, year = {2011}, keywords = {festivals; performance; space; place; appropriation; belonging}, abstract = {This essay aims to contribute to current anthropological debate on space and place, analysing in two instances of festival performance how, on the one hand the politics of appropriation of space contributes to the configuration of power relations, and how on the other hand, participants in these festivals engage individually and collectively with physical space(s) to create places which they experience as meaningful in terms of identity and belonging.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {33–46}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/11} }
@article{JEF, author = {Kaidi Tamm}, title = { On Some Aspects of the Lilleoru Community}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {3}, number = {1}, year = {2011}, keywords = {community; identity; lifestyle; rituals; holism}, abstract = {This paper explores the raison d’être of the only proper Estonian ecovillage, Lilleoru. Exceptional in the Estonian context, this relatively small and young community is a member of three established international networks uniting similar communities. Based on fieldwork and ethnographic interviews, the present article describes some focal aspects of the community and investigates how Lilleoru functions as a community. After a brief overview of the formation of the community, the following questions are touched upon: what is its significance for its members, how are they differentiated from other similar groups, what creates coherence among its members, how is the community managed, what are the everyday practices and how does it fit into the global context. As a result of the study it might be said that although from the outside Lilleoru is mainly seen as an ecovillage, from inside being an awareness training centre is central. The ecological lifestyle is regarded as a side result of a conscious lifestyle.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {95–107}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/23} }
@article{JEF, author = {Maili Roio}, title = { The Warship Schleswig-Holstein : History, Cultural Value and Legal Status}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {3}, number = {2}, year = {2011}, keywords = {underwater heritage; jurisdiction; warships; management; UNESCO convention}, abstract = {The current paper looks into the issues connected with underwater cultural heritage in Estonia and deals with its legal and physical protection. The report discusses the topic of what we actually mean by underwater heritage, what are the threats in terms of preservation and what are the possibilities to protect underwater heritage in Estonia. The paper analyses objects that are not defined by the UNESCO convention from 2001 as underwater cultural heritage, but which form a considerable part of underwater objects in Estonia that are protected by the state. A wide range of challenges – protection, ownership, value – is illustrated by the study of the history and present state of the battleship Schleswig-Holstein.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {93–104}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/15} }
@article{JEF, author = {Alexandr Pashkov}, title = { Studies of Local Lore as a Form of Ethnic Consciousness: The Karelians of Olonets Province in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {3}, number = {1}, year = {2011}, keywords = {Russian Karelia; Karelians; local lore; ethnic consciousness; ethnic mobilization}, abstract = {Author deals with 19th century intellectuals of Olonets Karelian origin who started to be interested in local language, culture and ways of life. They started to compile and publish corresponding texts and it meant the beginning of ethnic mobilization of Karelians. Author starts with a brief overview of local historical background and continues with activities of three intellectuals of Karelian origin (I. V. Kondratyev, M. N. Smirnov, N. F. Leskov).}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {21–34}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/19} }
@article{JEF, author = {Stein Mathisen}, title = { Festivalising Heritage in the Borderlands: Constituting Ethnic Histories and Heritages under the Rule of the Finn Forest Republic}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {3}, number = {2}, year = {2011}, keywords = {cultural heritage; Finn Forest; border; festival; everyday life}, abstract = {The Finn Forest Republic is a three-day celebration of cultural heritage and local identity among the Finn Forest population, a people living in small rural communities on both sides of the border between Sweden and Norway. This festival has been celebrated since 1970, and has been an important element in the revitalisation and constitution of a Finn Forest identity. The article investigates how elements of the cultural heritage of the area have been used during the days of the Republic to constitute the idea of a common ethnic identity and a shared past, through a wide range of public displays and performances. The Finn Forest Museum plays an important role in the festival, both with collections manifesting a genuine material culture, as an arena for the performance of intangible heritages, and as a venue for telling narratives about the historic background of this culture. The character of the festival and the cultural heritage it celebrates implies historical references to the immigrant border culture, as well as to conflicts with the other dominant national majority cultures of the area. These cultural relations are presented in sincere as well as humorous ways, and allows for a wide range of identifications with the project of building a Finn Forest cultural heritage.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {13–31}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/10} }
@article{JEF, author = {Kristin Kuutma}, title = { Cultural Heritage: An Introduction to Entanglements of Knowledge, Politics and Property}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {3}, number = {2}, year = {2011}, keywords = {heritage theorisation; critical assessment; knowledge production}, abstract = {Heritage is today actively implemented in policies globally, and yet the categorisation and instrumentalisation of the realm of cultural heritage entails rather contradictory aspects. In the discourse of culture, heritage is an abstraction, and what it signifies is subject to interpretation. This contribution gives a brief overview of the contemporary discussion of the epistemological and ontological premises of cultural heritage. It has been stated that heritage is a social construction, and a mode of cultural production that emanates from a metacultural relationship. The critical assessment and theorisation of heritage includes an enquiry into tangible and intangible heritagisation, knowledge production, heritage politics, and the question of ownership.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {5–12}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/9} }
@article{JEF, author = {Toomas Gross}, title = { Farewell to Fiestas and Saints? Changing Catholic Practices in Contemporary Rural Oaxaca}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {3}, number = {1}, year = {2011}, keywords = {fiesta; patron saint; folk Catholicism; Mexico; Oaxaca}, abstract = {This article discusses recent changes in Catholic festivities, especially the system of fiestas in rural Mexico. The ethnographic focus of the discussion is on indigenous Zapotec communities of the State of Oaxaca. Collective religious practices in Mexican villages contribute to social cohesion. Fiestas commemorating patron saints of the villages play a particularly important role in (re)constructing communal identity and the feeling of collective belongingness. Various global processes like secularisation, integration of local economies into the capitalist market system, increasing out-migration from villages, and the rise of Protestantism have undermined the position of the Catholic Church in the region. The article scrutinises the changing organisation and role of fiestas in the communities, concluding that the impact of secularisation, migration and Protestantism in particular is not simple and always negative – these changes can actually invigorate certain dimensions of the fiestas.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {3–19}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/18} }
@article{JEF, author = {Anu Kannike}, title = { Refuge or Resource: Home and Nostalgia in Postsocialist Estonia}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {3}, number = {1}, year = {2011}, keywords = {home; postsocialism; nostalgia; consumption; heritage}, abstract = {The focus of this article is on nostalgia as it appears in the representations of home-decoration in postsocialist Estonia. This theme is explored, describing a dialogue and conflict between different versions of relating to the past. The empirical material comprises qualitatively analysed in-depth interviews and articles in home-decoration journals from 1997–2008. Examining some dimensions and mechanisms of nostalgia in this specific context enables to demonstrate how is transformation from Soviet everyday culture into Western consumer culture conceptualised through ideas about the home. I will suggest that in Estonian everyday life nostalgia is not only a form of escapism into the past from the uncertain present and identity problems, but it also works as a resource to cope with the traumatic past, negotiate and forge new identities.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {57–72}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/21} }
@article{JEF, author = {Arnika Peselmann}, title = { Creating and Dealing with Cultural Heritage in the Erzgebirge Region – A Field Report}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {3}, number = {2}, year = {2011}, keywords = {cultural heritage; folk art; property claims; UNESCO cultural landscape; Erzgebirge}, abstract = {In summer 2009 I carried out initial field research for my dissertation project in the Erzgebirge, a mountain range divided by the Czech-German border – which separates it into a Saxon and Bohemian side – and which is famous for handmade wood arts. Initially my research concerned the question if, and if so how, property claims on wood arts are negotiated in international, national, and local contexts. The ongoing preparation for Montanregion Erzgebirge (the Erzgebirge Mining Region) to be nominated as a UNESCO Cultural Landscape widened my interest. Using this example of World Heritage in the making I enquire who the initiators are, what possible resistance there is, how the selection processes for entry onto the preliminary list of artefacts unfolds, and how the selected elements are interpreted.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {65–74}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/13} }