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,...

Copyright and folklore

by Dr Lauri Honko, Kalevala Institute Paper read at the National Seminar on Copyright Law and Matters, Mangalore University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India, on February 9, 2001 Oral traditions constitute a powerful cultural force and an inexhaustible spiritual resource...

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