@article{JEF, author = {Vida Savoniakaitė}, title = { The Regional Studies Movement in Soviet Lithuania}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {13}, number = {2}, year = {2019}, keywords = {history of anthropology, Soviet ethnography, belonging, Lithuanian nationalism, Baltic States}, abstract = {This article is dedicated to the regional studies movement in Soviet Lithuania, primarily to ethnography, and argues that Lithuanian ethnographers conducted ethnographic research in different ways. The focus is on the Ramuva movement, founded in 1970 at Vilnius University and continuing until 1994. The activities of the Lithuanian regional studies movement were characterised by diverse education and ethnographic practices. I assert that the key to the success of Ramuva’s activity was a creative circumventing of Soviet ideology and practice. Through a discussion of theoretical issues and the results of fieldwork, I analyse the following questions: How did Marxism–Leninism change ethnography in Soviet Lithuania? What were the activities, methods and theory of regional research? Was Ramuva’s policy of knowledge production in opposition to the Soviet regime?}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {71–89}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/318} }
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@article{JEF, author = {Maryna Berezutska}, title = { The Development of Bandura Music Art between the 1920s and 1940s}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {14}, number = {2}, year = {2020}, keywords = {}, abstract = {Bandura art is a unique phenomenon of Ukrainian culture, inextricably linked with the history of the Ukrainian people. The study is dedicated to one of the most tragic periods in the history of bandura art, that of the 1920s–1940s, during which the Bolsheviks were creating, expanding and strengthening the Soviet Union. Art in a multinational state at this time was supposed to be national by form and socialist by content in accordance with the concept of Bolshevik cultural policy; it also had to serve Soviet propaganda. Bandura art has always been national by its content, and professional by its form, so conflict was inevitable. The Bolsheviks embodied their cultural policy through administrative and power methods: they created numerous bandurist ensembles and imposed a repertoire that glorified the Communist Party and the Soviet system. As a result, the development of bandura art stagnated significantly, although it did not die completely. At the same time, in the post-war years this policy provoked the emigration of many professional bandurists to the USA and Canada, thus promoting the active spread of bandura art in the Ukrainian Diaspora.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {44–66}, url = {https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/356} }
@article{JEF, author = {Ulan Bigozhin}, title = { Sacred Geographies in the Eurasian Steppe: The Aqkol Shrine as a Symbol of Kazakh Ethnicity and Religiosity}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {13}, number = {2}, year = {2019}, keywords = {}, abstract = {}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {131–133}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/342} }
@article{JEF, author = {Iwona Kaliszewska}, title = { Sacred Sites and Not-So-Dirty Money in Daghestan, North Caucasus}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {13}, number = {2}, year = {2019}, keywords = {}, abstract = {}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {137–139}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/344} }
@article{JEF, author = {Sergei Shtyrkov}, title = { Sacred Landscapes Through the Lens of Religious Nationalism}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {13}, number = {2}, year = {2019}, keywords = {}, abstract = {}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {140–142}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/345} }
@article{JEF, author = {Mairi Kaasik}, title = { The Category of Time in Fairy Tales: Searching for Folk Calendar Time in the Estonian Fairy Tale Corpus}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {2}, number = {2}, year = {2011}, keywords = {fairy tale; category of time; relativity of time ; folk calendar holidays; Estonian fairy tale corpus}, abstract = { The article examines how folk calendar holidays are represented in Estonian fairy tales. It introduces some views presented in folklore studies about the concept of time in fairy tales and finds parallels with them in the Estonian context. The analysis relies on the digital corpus of Estonian fairy tales (5400 variants), created from the texts found in the Estonian Folklore Archives by the Fairy Tale Project of the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu. Folk calendar holidays occur in Estonian fairy tales relatively seldom; most often these are holidays that occupy a significant place in the Estonian folk calendar (Christmas, St. John’s Day, Easter, St. George’s Day). Calendar holidays are notably mentioned more often in tale types which remain on the borderline between the fairy tale and the legend or the fairy tale and the religious tale. In Estonian fairy tales, calendar holidays are used on three levels of meaning: (1) the holiday is organically associated with the tale type; it has an essential role in the plot of the tale; (2) to a certain extent, the holiday could be replaced by another holiday having an analogous meaning; (3) the holiday forms an unimportant or occasional addition to the tale.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {47–56}, url = {https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/29} }
@article{JEF, author = {Lili Di Puppo and Jesko Schmoller}, title = { The Revival of Sacred Sites in the Urals: The Local and Beyond}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {13}, number = {2}, year = {2019}, keywords = {}, abstract = {}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {143–145}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/346} }
@article{JEF, author = {Indrek Jääts}, title = { Sciences of the Nation under Soviet Rule: Ethnography and Folkloristics in the Baltic Republics}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {13}, number = {2}, year = {2019}, keywords = {}, abstract = {Preface to the Special Issue}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {i–iv}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/347} }
@article{JEF, author = {Aimar Ventsel}, title = { Book Review: Leaving Footprints in the Taiga: Luck, Rituals, and Ambivalence among the Orochen-Evenki}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {14}, number = {2}, year = {2020}, keywords = {}, abstract = {Donatas Brandišauskas. 2017. Leaving Footprints in the Taiga: Luck, Rituals, and Ambivalence among the Orochen-Evenki. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {145–146}, url = {https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/392} }
@article{JEF, author = {Rita Treija}, title = { A Folklorist in the Soviet Spotlight}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {13}, number = {2}, year = {2019}, keywords = {history of folkloristics; Sovietization; historic-geographic method; Anna Bērzkalne; Latvia}, abstract = {The article seeks to illuminate the ideologically motivated circumstances of Latvian folklore studies during the period of unconditional Soviet totalitarianism. With the strengthening of the Soviet occupation regime in Latvia in the late 1940s, many interwar folklorists became victims of ideologically motivated disdain and subsequent career limitation. ‘Bourgeois’ scholarship and the methods applied in folklore studies during the interwar period were denounced and recognised as harmful to the new Soviet order. The central part of the article presents a case study of one individual folklorist of the time, Anna Bērzkalne (1891–1956). Both increasing criticism of Bērzkalne’s folklore research approach (the historical–geographical method) and her efforts to accommodate the requirements of the Soviet regime have been analysed.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {16–32}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/320} }