Folklore Fellows activities

The Folklore Fellows is slowly reaching its intended structure. Let me briefly list most recent developments and give a blueprint for future: FF membership categories contain at present the following numbers of scholars: Honorary members 29, Full members 78, Associate...

Bengt Holbek (1933-1992)

Doctor of Philosophy and Senior Lecturer in Folkloristics at the University of Copenhagen passed away on August 27, 1992 at his desk. His death came unexpectedly and sent shock waves all over the world of folklorists, where he had so many friends and practically no...

Folklore Fellows in Oral Epics

What is an epic? The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (ninth edition, 1989) defines it as follows: a “long poem about the deeds of one or more great heroes, or a nation’s past history: Homer’s Iliad is a famous epic.” This definition...

FFSS 1993 – preliminary programme

TRADITION AND RENEVAL IN THE FOLKLORE PROCESS August 2 – 14, 1993 Turku University / Turku Christian Institute, Finland MONDAY, August 2nd ARRIVAL at the Turku Christian Institute, 10.00- Registration (Course office near the entrance of the White Building)....

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