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totalt 17 träffar
Kulturarv i förändring
Denna bok undersöker hur kulturarv skapas, i naturlandskap och i stora och små museer i Norden och Nordamerika. Nio forskare inom etnologi, skandinavistik och folkminnesforskning …
Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala
Since its initial publication in the early nineteenth century, Elias Lonnrot’s Finnish epic Kalevala has attracted international interest and scholarship. However, the author …
Lighthouse Hauntings
What is it about lighthouses that stirs the heart and sparks the imagination? Built for strength and permanence, they are nonetheless always vulnerable. We look to them for …
Sami Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North
Digital mediaGIFs, films, TED Talks, tweets, and morehave become integral to daily life and, unsurprisingly, to Indigenous peoples strategies for addressing the historical and …
Myths, tales and poetry
This anthology presents Sámi oral and written texts from the last four hundred years - Sámi narratives and poetry relating creation of the world, the inhabitation of Sápmi, and …
Lyric, Meaning, and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe
Focusing on particular characters, situations, or emotions-usually with little or no explicit plot-lyric song poses interpretive challenges to the listening audience. Without an …
Folklore in the Nordic World
In seven concise chapters that document both the history of Nordic folkloristics and the ongoing vivacity of Nordic folklore today, Thomas A. DuBois demonstrates how the informal, …
Nordic Storyteller
The Nordic Storyteller: Essays in Honour of Niels Ingwersen consists of a set of nineteen research essays plus an introduction, written by colleagues and admirers of Niels and …
An Introduction to Shamanism
Shamans are an integral part of communal religious traditions, professionals who make use of personal supernatural experiences, especially trance, as a resource for the wider …
Teaching World Epics
Essays for teaching ancient and recent epic narratives from around the world.Cultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose …
Sacred to the Touch
With near-mythical forests of birch and pine, the Nordic and Baltic countries boast a rich tradition of religious wood carving that is in many ways emblematic of their cultures. …
Lyric, Meaning, and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe
Focusing on particular characters, situations, or emotions—usually with little or no explicit plot—lyric song poses interpretive challenges to the listening audience. Without an …