@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} }
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@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} }
@article{JEF, author = {Megersa Tolasa and Dejene Chala}, title = { Oromo Proverbs and Proverbial Expressions in the Customary Judicial System in Ethiopia}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {13}, number = {2}, year = {2019}, keywords = {Conflict; Conflict resolution; Communication; Oral Literature; Oromo proverbs}, abstract = {This paper discusses the role of Oromo proverbs in conflict resolution and/or management as a peace-making verbal communication principle in the cultural context. The lesson from proverbs, which contain traditional morsels of wisdom, consists of cultural value and rhetorical effectiveness helping to enforce reality in the context in which they are used. Data for this paper is generated from primary sources. In data gathering, we used interview and focus group discussion. The analysis shows that proverbs have persuasive power to advise, guide and influence conflicting parties to settle their case peacefully. The proverbs tell their truths about conflict situations and devise a resolution and management approach through metaphorical and symbolic representations. Proverbs are also an integral part of Oromo culture, handing down and imparting norms, values, rules and the worldview of the community to guide people to live in customary ways.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {108–123}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/324} }
@article{JEF, author = {Anastasiya Fiadotava}, title = { Book review: The Practice of Folklore}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {14}, number = {2}, year = {2020}, keywords = {}, abstract = {Bronner, Simon J. 2019. The Practice of Folklore: Essays toward a Theory of Tradition. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 382 pages.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {142–144}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/380} }
@article{JEF, author = {Jana Reidla}, title = { Identity and the Controversial Experiences of Museum Researchers: The Case of the National Museums of Finland and the Baltic States}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {14}, number = {2}, year = {2020}, keywords = {}, abstract = {This paper highlights the internal contradictions of museum institutions when they are influenced by neoliberal market-driven policies and new museology from the viewpoint of the museum-working researcher. Museums increasingly interface with the public because they are now part of the leisure market. Recent transformations have affected the roles and responsibilities of museum researchers. Whereas marketing, communication and sales specialists have gained more prominence in museum decision-making, the researchers’ role has been marginalised. Semi-structured interviews at five national museums in Finland and the Baltic Statesgive voice to museum researchers and reveal their subjective reflections. The interviews revealed two discursive patterns: 1) caring for museum collections is more of a priority than conducting research, and 2) if academic results are prioritised, researchers are less involved in servicing the collections.The analysis showedhowperceived marginalisation has caused role conflict and ambiguity for researchers, and that current shifts reduce researchers’ motivation to contribute to research.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {99–122}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/382} }
@article{JEF, author = {Anastasiya Fiadotava}, title = { “The Path of the Comedian is Always Going to Be a Lonely One”: Comedians’ Mediation between Family Humour and Public Performance}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {14}, number = {2}, year = {2020}, keywords = {}, abstract = {The article presents a study of the use of family humour in public comedy and the mutual influence of family humour and public humour on comedians’ performances and everyday life. The interrelations between these domains lie at the level of the content of humour, its format, its performance and the interaction between humour producers and their audience. Family and public humour often overlap and interweave in various ways, especially in the experience of those who engage in humour production both in public and in private spheres. The study is informed by interviews with UK-based comedians on their family humorous folklore and its interrelation with their public humour performances. The interconnection between public and family humour was identified on several levels: textual, communicative, personal and conceptual. This multidimensional interplay indicates that family humour is contingent on the context, but at the same time is often conditioned by comedians’ public personae and cannot be fully separated from the humour they perform publicly. The study illustrates the vagueness of the dichotomy between public comic performances and family humour and points to multiple ways in which the boundaries between these domains can become blurry.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {1–16}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/384} }
@article{JEF, author = {Dagrún Jónsdóttir}, title = { “Obey My Will or Suffer”: Violence against Women in Icelandic Folk Legends}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {14}, number = {2}, year = {2020}, keywords = {}, abstract = {This article will look at how domestic and sexual violence against women is presented in the Icelandic folk legend collections from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Gender-based violence is a subject relatively absent in Icelandic legend collections which were mostly told, collected and published by men (the exception being the collection of Torfhildur Þorsteinssdóttir Hólm). Violence plays a role in the subordination of women, and there is good reason to consider how violence against women is portrayed in the oral legends of the past. I will among other things consider the effect these particular legends might have had on those who heard them and examine the roles of the legends in maintaining and shaping a discourse which in many cases may well have attempted to normalise this violence.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {17–43}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/386} }
@article{JEF, author = {Kristiina Kruuse and Veronika Kalmus and Pille Runnel and Andra Siibak}, title = { Mapping Children’s Life-Worlds: A Content-Analytical Study of Drawings of Favourite Gifts}, journal = {Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics}, volume = {14}, number = {2}, year = {2020}, keywords = {lifeworld; gifts; child-centric research; draw-and-write method; societal changes}, abstract = { What children count as their favourite things tell us not only about children but also about their social and cultural experiences. This study, based on the outcomes of a children’s drawing competition organised by the Estonian National Museum and applying a combined framework of visual sociology and participatory research, proposes an innovative angle to using the museum’s experimental approach to contemporary collecting of cultural heritage. This large-sample (n=926) content-analytical study of children’s favourite gifts gives a rich ethnographic and sociological perspective on children’s life-worlds. On the one hand, the children’s wishes reflected contemporary global trends in technology and commercialisation. On the other hand, the children’s prevailing dream of having a pet shows loneliness shaped by societal changes, including urbanisation and changing family models and time regimes.}, issn = {2228-0987}, pages = {123–141}, url = {https://jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/334} }