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

CFP: Silenced Sources, Heritage, and the Oral-Literary Continuum – Rewriting the Margins of the National

Folklore Fellows’ Communications Series in 2022

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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

Folklore Fellows’ Communications – Sale

Folklore Fellows´Communications in 2021

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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.

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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

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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

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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 48

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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  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

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

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

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

No. 21 / March 2001

• How to become a member of the Folklore Fellows
• Do we need a folkloristic code of ethics
• Copyright and folklore
• A new association
• FF Summer School 2002
• Sigillo d’Oro (Città di Palermo)
• Reviews
• A new volume of the FFC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No. 12 / June 1996

• The quest for oral text: the third wave? by Lauri Honko
• Folklore Fellows’ Summer School 1997: Tradition, locality and multicultural processes by Anna-Leena Siikala
• FFOE Conference on textualization of oral epics

No. 11 / October 1995

• Academia Scientiarum Fennica
• Folklorists in Search of Identity. The Folklore Fellows’ Summer School at the University of Joensuu
• Folklore Fellows in Gender Studies
• Folklore Fellows International: Statutes
• The Elusive Oral Text: FFOE focuses on textualisation

No. 10 / May 1995

• Oral and Semiliterary Epics: A Panel in Mysore
• Folklore Fellows’ Summer School 1995. Preliminary Programme
• Folklore Fellows in Gender Studies in Mysore
• Folklore Fellows in Gender Studies – list of members
• FF Advisory Committee Nominated New Members
• Textualization of Oral Epics. Call for Papers

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

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

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

No. 6 / March 1993

• Folklore Fellows recruits members by Lauri Honko
• Global and regional work at the FFSS
• FFSS 1993 – preliminary programme
• Folklore Fellows in oral epics
• Bengt Holbek (1933-1992)

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

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

Contents of the FF Network 3
(January 1992)

• The Unesco perspective on folklore by Lauri Honko

Contents of the FF Network 2
(June 1991)

• Welcome to the FF Summer School 91
• FFSS91 programme
• FFSS91 Participants
• FFSS91 Teachers
• FFSS91 Secretariat

Contents of FF Network 1
(April 1991)

• Introduction
• 207 applications to the Folklore Fellows’ Summer School