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Fashion Meets Socialism
The Soviet Union was not renowned for its fashionable clothing. However, after the World War II the Soviet Government opened several parallel organizations of fashion design with …
Kalevala and the world' s traditional epics
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the (New) Kalevala thirty experts on comparative epic research from 12 countries met in Turku, Finland in August 1999 to debate the role …
Elämän ja entisyyden maisemat
Etnografinen tutkimus Kolgujevin saarella Barentsinmerellä asuvien nenetsien kerronnasta ja arkipuheesta.
Helsinki - the innovative city
Miten ja miksi Helsingistä tuli innovatiivinen kaupunki ja Suomesta johtava high-tech maa? Helsingin vaiheita innovatiivisena pääkaupunkina seurataan Suomen autonomian alusta …
Transnational Death
Transnational Death brings together eleven cutting-edge articles from the emerging field of transnational death studies. The collection highlights European, Asian, North American, …
Mansi Mythology
The Encyclopedia of Uralic Mythologies offers a comparative base for study of the roots and present forms of Finno-Ugrian and Samoyedic mythologies and ethnic religions. The …
On the Border of Language and Dialect
This volume considers the linguistic borders between a language and a dialect as well as the administrative, cultural, and mental borders that affect the linguistic ones. The …
Shattering Minds
Shattering Minds is the first broad study on representations of mental illness in modernist Finnish literature. Through four case studies, it shows how in modernist texts mental …
Myth and Mentality
The recent fascination in Finnish folklore studies with popular thought and the values and emotions encoded in oral tradition began with the realisation that the vast collections …
The Finnish Case System
The Finnish language is perhaps best known for its rich case system. Depending on the definition of a case, Finnish has at least fourteen, possibly fifteen or even more cases. This …
Storied and Supernatural Places
This collection of articles addresses the narrative construction of places, landscapes and their supernatural dimensions, the relationship between tradition communities and their …
Narrating, Doing, Experiencing
How do people tell of experiences, things and events that mean a lot to them and are unforgettable? Eight Nordic folklorists here examine personal experience stories and the way …