Folklore Fellows Network Bulletin
FFN 58 (2024)
New Rules for the Folklore Fellows
Pekka Hakamies
Narratives of Ukrainian Women about the Refugee Experience
Iryna Koval-Fuchylo
Is Folklore a Calque of German Volkskunde?
Frog
Book Review: Science of the Volksgeist
Karina Lukin
FFN 57 (2023)
The Awe Before Constant Change
Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä
Hearth and Heath
Bansari Mitra
Cosmological and Eschatological Space-Time. Continuum in Turkic Heroic Epics
Gunel Kamran gizi Jannatova
FFN 57 (2023)
The Awe Before Constant Change
Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä
Hearth and Heath
Bansari Mitra
Cosmological and Eschatological Space-Time. Continuum in Turkic Heroic Epics
Gunel Kamran gizi Jannatova
FFN 56 (2022)
Folklore Fellows on the Threshold of a New Era
Pekka Hakamies
Diverse Conceptions of ‘Folklore’
Frog
Lithuanian Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases for Local and International Research
Dalia Zaikauskienė & Vita Džekčioriūtė-Medeišienė
Book Review: Representations of Fear
Debbie Felton
FFN 55 (2021)
Ships Pass in the Night No More?
Frog
Close Walking
Matthias Egeler
Types of Mongolian Folktale and Database Construction
S. Tsetsenmunkh
Folklore Fellows Summer School 2021
Jesse Barber
Review: Folkloristics in the Digital Age
Merrill Kaplan
Review: Visions and Traditions
Dani Schrire
FFN 54 (2021)
Covid Conspiracies
Timothy R. Tangherlini & Vwani Roychowdhury
Historical Oral Poems and Digital Humanities
Kati Kallio & Eetu Mäkelä & Maciej Janicki
Second edition of Verzeichnis der altbömischen Exempel
Bengt af Klintberg
FFN 53 (2019)
FF Communications under Duress
Frog
The Where, How and Who of Digital Ethnography
Coppélie Cocq
A Brief History of the University of California, Berkeley’s Folklore Graduate Program
Charles L. Briggs
Beyond Content Analysis
Katherine Borland
Review – Matthias Egeler 2018: Atlantic Outlooks on Being at Home
Joonas Ahola
FFN 57 (2023)
The Awe Before Constant Change
Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä
Hearth and Heath
Bansari Mitra
Cosmological and Eschatological Space-Time. Continuum in Turkic Heroic Epics
Gunel Kamran gizi Jannatova
FFN 52 (2019)
Each to His Time
Pekka Hakamies
Video Game Studies and Contemporary Folkloristics
Jukka Vahlo
Violence of Traditions and Traditions of Violence – Towards Folklore Fellows’ Summer School 2020
Pertti Anttonen
FFN 50 (2017)
Pekka Hakamies
Scholarly Freedom
Amy Shuman
Speaking Out, Speaking for, and the Right to Speak on Behalf of Others
Kirsti Salmi-Niklander
Writers and listeners of Walotar – Exploring the oral-literary traditions of the Finnish community in Rockport, Massachusetts
News from the Finnish Literature Society
Dániel Bárth
Education and research in the Department of Folklore, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
FFN 49 (2016)
Pekka Hakamies
Focusing on the main task
Kaarina Koski
Continuing Bonds in Finnish Bereavement Narratives
Māra Zirnīte and Ieva Garda-Rozenberga
Oral History Studies in Latvia
News from the Finnish Literature Society
Dani Schrire, Hagar Salamon and Galit Hasan-Rokem
Folklore Studies and Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
The Latest in Folklore Fellows Communications
FFC 310 Bill Mag Fhloinn
FFC 311 Tuomas Hovi
FFN 48 (2016)
Pekka Hakamies
Change and Continuity
Anna-Leena Siikala In Memoriam
Frog
Linguistic Multiforms: Advancing Oral-Formulaic Theory
Karina Lukin
Shaman or con-man? Ways to frame cultural heritage after anti-religious propaganda
T. G. Vladykina and A. Ye. Zagrebin
Folklore Archives of the Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Russian Academy of Science
FFN 47 (2015)
Pekka Hakamies
The essence of folklore and its new life on the web
Anne Heimo and Kirsi Hänninen
Participatory, community and spontaneous archives and digitally born cultural heritage
Lynne McNeill
‘The internet is weird’: folkloristics in the digital age
News from the Finnish Literature Society
Anastasiya Astapova
Folklore Fellows’ Summer School 2015: Doing Folkloristics in the Digital Age
Christoph Schmitt
Folklore research at the University of Rostock: The Wossidlo Archive, its development and present situation
FFN 46 (2015)
Pekka Hakamies
The Folklore Fellows’ Summer School as an institution
Art Leete
Turning points in the history of ethnographic descriptions of the peoples of the north
News from the Finnish Literature Society
Arvo Krikmann
On the vowel euphony in Finnic alliterative folksongs
Reviews
FFN 51 (2018)
The Two Faces of Nationalism
Pekka Hakamies
An Update to the Folklore Fellows’ Network Bulletin
Petja Kauppi
National Identity and Folklore: the Case of Ireland
Mícheál Briody
Folk and Nation in Estonian Folkloristics
Liina Saarlo
Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Archives
Risto Blomster, Outi Hupaniittu, Marja-Leena Jalava, Katri Kivilaakso, Juha Nirkko, Maiju Putkonen & Jukka Saarinen
Latest FFC Publications
FFC 313: Latvian Folkloristics in the Interwar Period. Ed. Dace Bula.
FFC 314: Matthias Egeler, Atlantic Outlooks on Being at Home.
FFN 44 (2014)
Pekka Hakamies
Let’s get Digital: The Folklore Fellows’ Summer School 2015
Anne Heimo & Kaarina Koski
Internet Memes as Statements and Entertainment
Wolfgang Mieder
Futuristic Paremiography and Paremiology:
A plea for the collection and study of modern proverbs
News from the Finnish Literature Society
Kati Kallio
Julius and Kaarle Krohn Anniversary Symposium
Helsinki, 6 September, 2013
An Deming, Shi Aidong, Ye Tao & Yin Hubin
Folklore Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Doing Folkloristics in the Digital Age
Reviews
FFN 43 (2013)
Pekka Hakamies
The Individual and the History of Science
Alexandra Bergholm
King, Poet, Seer: aspects of the Celtic Wild Man legend in medieval literature
Anna Angelopoulos and Marianthi Kaplanoglou
Greek Magic Tales: aspects of research in Folklore Studies and Anthropology
News from the Finnish Literature Society
Marja-Liisa Keinänen
The Role of Theory in Folkloristics and Comparative Religion, Turku, 21–23 August, 2013
Kaarina Koski, Pekka Hakamies and Kirsi Hänninen
Narrative in the Modern World: Unity and Divesity, Vilnius, 2530 June, 2013
Lina Bugiene, Brone Stundziene and Ruta Zarskiene
Folklore Research at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore in Vilnius, Lithuania
Reviews
Theory and Practice Hand in Hand
A Journey of Interpretive Discovery
The Catalogue of Greek Magic Folktales in English
FFN 42 (2012)
Pekka Hakamies
Publish or perish
Kari Mikko Vesala & Seppo Knuuttila
Non-communication as a perspective on the world of communication: elaborating on Bateson
Regina F. Bendix
Forget inheriting – invest in culture!
News from the Finnish Literature Society
Aili Nenola
Runo collectors and laments in Old Ingria
Ergo-Hart Västrik & Pihla Siim
The Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu
Obituary: John Miles Foley (1947–2012)
Review: Belonging to and in Russia
FFN 41 (2012)
Pekka Hakamies
Dear Folklore Fellows
Timo Kaartinen
Handing down and writing down
Pekka Hakamies
Management and loss of narrative knowledge in the ‘Guided Islands and Conducted Lands’ (East Indonesia and East Timor)
News from the Finnish Literature Society
Folklore Fellows’ Communications—your publisher?
Arbnora Dushi
Developing Albanian folklore studies in Kosova
FFN 45 (2014)
Pekka Hakamies
Folklore, Ethics and Politics
Tuomas Hovi
Authenticity, Dracula Tourism and the Folklore Process
Soumya Mohan Ghosh and Rajni Singh
Reconstructing Draupadi:
The reclamation and articulation of the feminine self in Saoli Mitra’s Nathavati Anathavat (‘Five Lords, Yet None a Protector’)
News from the Finnish Literature Society
Reviews
FFN 40 (2011)
Pekka Hakamies
Oral and written folklore
Lotte Tarkka
The deck of cards and the language of tradition
Bengt af Klintberg
Wandering legends about wandering forests
Reviews
FFN 38 (2010)
Pekka Hakamies
Tradition—continuity—change
Ulrika Wolf-Knuts
A history of folkloristics
Ulf Palmenfelt
Once upon a time there was a genre
Eila Stepanova
The Kalevala in the Contexts of Regional and Global Culture
FFN 37 (2009)
Anna-Leena Siikala
A new generation
Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj
History bursts into story: women’s tales of war
Publications of the Finnish Literature Society
Jonathan Roper
Narratives across time and space: the 15th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR), Athens, June 2009
Clive Tolley
Should we search for shamanism outside Siberia? The Nordic dilemma
FFN 36 (2009)
- A
nna-Leena Siikala
Diverse Research Histories - Jukka Siikala
Those Who Know: the Tumu Korero of the Cook Islands - Cristina Bacchilega
Before and After ‘Folktales and Fairy Tales: Translation, Colonialism, and Cinema’ - Recent Publications of the Finnish Literature Society
- After the New Folkloristics? The Eighth Folklore Fellows’ Summer School at Lammi, Finland
- Professor Anna-Leena Siikala Receives the Honorary Title of Academician
- Pekka Hakamies
The Kalevala Institute: First Ten Years - Reviews
by Christine Shoajei-Kawan - New Volumes in the FF Communications
- A Recent Volume in the FF Communications
FFN 35 (2008)
No. 35 / December 2008
- Anna-Leena Siikala
Strengthening International Activity - Pekka Hakamies
The Modernisation of the Soviet Karelian Countryside: The case of Vieljärvi/Vedlozero from the 1920s to the 1960s - Pertti Anttonen
The Textualization of Oral Tradition and Its Modern Contextualization in Finland
- Recent Publications of the Finnish Literature Society
- Reviews by
Joseph Harris
Tuulikki Kurki
Jukka Siikala - A New Volume in the FF Communications
FFN 34 (2008)
No. 34 / June 2008
- Anna-Leena Siikala
Kaarle Krohn’s Way - Anna-Leena Siikala
Mythic Discourses: Questions of Finno-Ugric Studies of Myth - Hanne Pico Larsen & Lizette Gradén
Imagined Nordic Spaces - Recent Publications of the Finnish Literature Society
- Reviews by
Hanne Pico Larsen
Timothy R. Tangherlini
Marjut Huuskonen
Karl Reichl - A New Volume in the FF Communications
FFN 39 (2011)
Pekka Hakamies
The centenary of Folklore Fellows’ Communications
Tom DuBois
Tale of two journals
Pekka Hakamies
Story and reality in folkloristics
Niina Hämäläinen
After the New Folkloristics?
FFN 32 (2007)
No. 32 / June 2007
- Anna-Leena Siikala
On Borders, in Centres and on Peripheries - Stein R. Mathisen
Folklore in Northern Multicultural Contexts - Carsten Bregenhøj
A Mumming Skit from 1860: Its Context and Background - Recent Publications of the Finnish Literature Society
- Pauliina Latvala
Folklorists Gather at the Seventh Summer School - Reviews by
Marja-Liisa Keinänen - New Volumes in the FF Communications
FFN 33 (2007)
No. 33 / December 2007
- Anna-Leena Siikala
The Long Road of Folklorstics - John Shaw
Gaelic Oral Poetry in Scotland - Pertti Anttonen
Notes on Lauri Honko’s Discussion on Paradigms in the History of Folklore Studies - Recent Publications of the Finnish Literature Society
- Elo-Hanna Seljamaa
Oral Poetry and Field Work in a Viena Karelian Setting - Reviews by
Hans-Jörg Utter - Forthcoming in the FF Communications
FFN 30 (2006)
No. 30 / June 2006
- Anna-Leena Siikala:
Globalisation and the Renewal of Tradition - Laura Stark:
Magic Narratives as Dialogue Between Archives and Rural Inhabitants in Finland 1880–1960
- John Miles Foley:
Oral Tradition and the Internet: Navigating Pathways
- Recent publications of the Finnish Literature Society
- Folklore Fellows’ Summer School in the Landscape of the Kalevala
- John Shaw: Scottish Ethnology Report
- Reviews by
Cristina Bacchilega - Forthcoming in the FF Communications
- A Recent Volume in the FF Communications
FFN 29 (2005)
No. 29 / December 2005
- Anna-Leena Siikala:
Research, teaching and quality assurance - Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj:
Homo narrans – people making narratives - Tarja Kupiainen:
Folk narrative theories and contemporary practices - Recent publications of the Finnish Literature Society
- Merja Leppälahti:
Folk legend researchers met in Iceland - Reviews by
Valdimar Hafstein
Outi Fingerroos
Marjut Huuskonen - MLA awards Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition to FFC 283
- A new volume in the FF Communications
FFN 31 (2006)
No. 31 / December 2006
- Anna-Leena Siikala:
Folklore Performance and the Sense of Belonging - Pekka Hakamies:
Collectivity in Folklore - Kristin Kuutma:
Changing Codified Symbols of Identity - Recent publications of the Finnish Literature Society
- Ulf Palmenfelt and Owe Ronström:
Facing the Future: Folklore Studies at Sweden’s Youngest University - Reviews by
Éva Pócs and
Stein R. Mathisen - New Volumes in the FF Communications
FFN 27 (2004)
No. 27 / December 2004
- Anna-Leena Siikala:
The many faces of contemporary folklore studies - Aili Nenola:
On power and violence in patriarchal households - Sinikka Vakimo:
Gender in Finnish folkloristics – outlines of broadening fields - Recent publications of the Finnish Literature Society
- Reviews by Outi Lehtipuro and Karl Reichl
- FF Communications in print
- A new volume in the FF Communications
FFN 26 (2004)
No. 26 / May 2004
- Anna-Leena Siikala:
Folkloristics moves into the digital age - Lauri Harvilahti:
Textualising an oral epic – a mission impossible? - Christine Goldberg:
African-American folktales: Where do they come from? Why does it matter? - Reviews by
Ergo-Hart Västrik
Veronique Campion-Vincent
John Lindow
Seppo Suhonen
Juha Janhunen - New volumes of the FF Communications
- Forthcoming in the FF Communications
FFN 28 (2005)
No. 28 / June 2005
- Anna-Leena Siikala:
Folkloristics and globalisation
- Seppo Knuuttila
Getting lost
- Diarmuid Ó Giolláin:
The national and the local – practices of de- and retraditionalization - Recent publications of the Finnish Literature Society
- Reviews by
Jurjen van der Kooi
Toshio Ozawa
Laura Stark - The Types of the International Folktales is published
- A new volume in the FF Communications 28
FFN 25 (2003)
No. 25 / December 2003
- Anna-Leena Siikala:
Reaping the harvest of the Kalevala jubilee years - Satu Apo:
A singing scribe or a nationalist author? The making of the Kalevala as described by Elias Lönnrot - Anna-Leena Siikala:
Elias Lönnrot the ethnographer - Jouni Hyvönen:
Symposium on comparative epic research, 1–3 November 2002 - Book Reviews
- FF Communications in print
FFN 23 (2003)
No. 23 / December 2003
- Maria Vasenkari:
Elias Lönnrot and the birth of a nation - Lauri Honko:
Who are the epic-makers? - Anna-Leena Siikala:
The 6th Folklore Fellows’ Summer School at Lammi - Leea Virtanen:
Estonian folkloristics enjoys its new-found freedom - Reviews by
Brenda Beck
Christine Goldberg
Pasi Klemettinen
Mark Bender - A new volume of the FFC
FFN 22 (2001)
No. 22 / November 2001
- Lauri Honko:
The digital era is here - Tiina Mahlamäki:
Some guidelines for the archiving of qualitative research data - Jukka Saarinen:
Kalevalaic poetry as a digital corpus - Barbro Klein:
Anna Birgitta Rooth and folkloristics in Sweden - Reviews by
Micheline Galley &
Camille Lacoste Dujardin
Wolfgang Mieder
Ülo Valk - New volumes of the FFC
- Forthcoming in the FFC
FFN 24 (2003)
No. 24 / May 2003
- Anna-Leena Siikala: The Folklore Fellows’ Network and international cooperation
- Anna-Leena Siikala: Lauri Honko 1932-2002
- Lauri Honko: The five performances of the Kalevala
- Niina Hämäläinen, Kaarina Koski, Maria Vasenkari: Memory, recollection and creativity
- A reprint in the FF Communications
- New volumes in the FF Communications
FFN 20 (2000)
No. 20 / November 2000
- Toward the ethics of textualisation
- FFSS99 workshop reports: Folkloristic research ethics
- Classifying folktales:
The third revision of the Aarne-Thompson tale type index - Textualization of Oral Epics published
- New volumes of FFC
- FF Summer School 1999 papers published
- Reviews
- On caste and untouchability – without love (review) by Lauri Honko and B.A. Viveka Rai
FFN 21 (2001)
FFN 18 (1999)
No. 18 / November 1999
- Transparent 5th Summer School by Lauri Honko
- Variation, textuality and thick corpus by Maria Vasenkari
- FFSS99 Participants, teachers, supporting staff
- FFSS99 Secretariat, organising committee, organising institutions
- FFSS99 Sponsors
- Making the brilliants shine. “The Kalevala and the World’s Traditional Epics” by Marjut Huuskonen
- Opening words by Heikki Koski
- Life-story materials in the folklore archives by Juha Nirkko
- Releasing the Siri epic in two cultures
FFN 17 (1999)
No. 17 / June 1999
- Turku welcomes FFSS in August 1999 by Lauri Honko
- The Kalevala and the World’s Traditional Epics
- The Kalevala – the Finnish national epic with worldwide influence by Anneli Asplund & Sirkka-Liisa Mettomäki
- I. K. Inha in the Kalevala song country by Pekka Laaksonen
- Papers of the FFOE Panel on Oral and Semiliterary Epics in Mysore 1995
- FFC 239 by Holbek available again
- Reviews
FFN 16 (1998)
No. 16 / October 1998
- Back to basics by Lauri Honko
- The Kalevala in translation by Henni Ilomäki
- Trends and traditions by Bengt af Klintberg
- From the shadow of mentalities by Seppo Knuuttila
- Gender and ethnography by Margaret Mills
- Call for Papers – “The Kalevala and the Worl’s Traditional Epics”
- Atlases of Finnish folk culture by Urpo Vento
- Discussion. “Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala” again. Comment to Lotte Tarkka by Leea Virtanen
FFN 19 (1999)
No. 19 / March 1999
- A decade of renewed Folklore Fellows by Lauri Honko
- FFSS99 workshop reports:
The politics of textualisation
The diversity of oral epics
Principles of fieldwork and archiving - Summer School 2001
- Summer School 2001: Application form
- Comments on FFSS99
FFN 14 (1997)
No. 14 / December 1997
- FF Network expands by Lauri Honko
- Tradition, locality and globalization: world’s flowing into each other by Satu Lehtinen & Airi Markkanen
- Multicultural processes and meanings of folklore by Lauri Harvilahti
- FFSS97 Working Groups
- A code of ethics for folklore studies by Ulrich Marzolph
- Epic scholars in Bonn by Lauri Honko
- FF Summer School in 1999 by Lauri Honko
- NIF in the Nordic eclipse by Lauri Honko
- The Epics of Upper Altai (Review) by Lauri Harvilahti
- Reviews
FFN 15 (1998)
No. 15 / April 1998
- Institutional profiles by Lauri Honko
- The Kalevala Insitute at the University of Turku by Lauri Honko
- Folklore activities of the Finnish Literature Society by Urpo Vento
- Matti Kuusi (1914-1998)
- The Kalevala Prize
- New Nordic Network
- Thick Corpus and Organic Variation by Lauri Honko
- FF Summer School 1999
- Interpretation at a distance (Review) by Lotte Tarkka
- Reviews
FFN 12 (1996)
No. 12 / June 1996
FFN 13 (1996)
No. 13 / November 1996
- Kalevala Institute on the drawing board by Lauri Honko
- Comparing the textualization of oral epics – FFOE Conference 1996 by Lauri Honko
- Local and global processes in folklore studies – FF Summer School 1997 by Lauri Harvilahti
FFN 10 (1995)
No. 10 / May 1995
FFN 11 (1995)
FFN 9 (1994)
No. 9 / November 1994
- The Road to Mysore by Lauri Honko
- Towards the Nightless Night by Pekka Hakamies and Sinikka Vakimo
- Folklore Fellows in Oral Epics by Lauri Honko
- Panel on Oral and Semiliterary Epics
FFN 8 (1994)
No. 8 / April 1994
- FF Honorary and Full Members
- Tradition and Conflicting Identities – FF Summer School 1995 by Anna-Leena Siikala
- FF in Gender Studies by Aili Nenola
FFN 7 (1993)
No. 7 / November 1993
- Folklore Fellows activities by Lauri Honko
- Teachings of the Silk-Road Epics: A Workshop in Turku by Lauri Honko
- The 2nd FF Summer School: Tradition and Renewal by Anna-Leena Siikala
- FFSS93: A Participant’s Report by Liam Ó Dochartaigh
- FFSS93 Participants
- FFSS93 Teachers and secretariat
- Proposal for a “Folklore Fellows in Gender Studies” by Aili Nenola
FFN 6 (1993)
FFN 5 (1992)
Contents of the FF Network 5
(August 1992)
- Folklorists meet in Innsbruck by Lauri Honko
- Folklore Fellows’ Summer School approaches by Lotte Tarkka
- A good word for indices
FFN 4 (1992)
Contents of the FF Network 4
(May 1992)
- Tradition and renewal at the FFSS by Lauri Honko
- Folklore Fellows’ Summer School 1993 in Turku by Anna-Leena Siikala
- The governing bodies
FFN 3 (1992)
Contents of the FF Network 3
(January 1992)
- The Unesco perspective on folklore by Lauri Honko
FFN 2 (1991)
Contents of the FF Network 2
(June 1991)
FFN 1 (1991)
Contents of FF Network 1
(April 1991)