Kalevalaic poetry as a digital corpus

Kalevalaic poetry as a digital corpus

by Jukka Saarinen, the Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki The Kalevala, the epic compiled by Elias Lönnrot, is based on the ancient Baltic-Finnic poetry in the trochaic tetrameter subsequently known in Finland as Kalevalaic poetry. It is not, however, a single genre...

The digital era is here

The digital era is here The present issue carries two articles on the blessings and curses of digital archiving, where the dream is clearer than the reality. For decades scholars in numerous disciplines have visioned a future where primary materials from fieldwork and...

Reviews

Indexing a Mayan tale-world (by Harriet Goldberg, by Alicia Ramos) Inhabiting the spiritual world (by Nils G. Holm) A vade mecum of indexing… (by Lee Haring) Other reviews: Oral and oral-derived epics in a global view (by Aaron Tate) (FFN 21, March 2001: 16-27...

Sigillo d’Oro (Città di Palermo)

International awards are comparatively rare in the humanities. An award which has gained recognition during the past 18 years in the field of anthropological studies is the Sigillo d’Oro (Città di Palermo), a gold medal carrying the seal of the City of Palermo,...

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