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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 76

Komi Folklore Studies

Guest Editors:

Liudmila Lobanova & Nikolay Kuznetsov

February 2019

ISSN 1406-0949

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Introduction. Komi Folklore Studies: Connecting Points

by

Liudmila Lobanova

Nikolai Kuznetsov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.76.introduction

Perm and Ob-Ugric Relations in Terms of Folklore Data

by

Oleg Uliashev

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.76.uliashev

Some Motifs in Komi Legends about the Creation of the World

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Pavel F. Limerov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.76.limerov

Zaum (Beyonsense, Educanto) in the Komi Tradition of Incantations: Revisiting the Issue of Origins

by

Anatoly Panyukov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.76.panyukov

Aspects of Studying the Verbal Level of Cattle-Breeding Rituals

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Liudmila Lobanova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.76.lobanova

Calling Upon a Domovoi in the Children’s Game Tradition of the Komi

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Aleksey Rassykhaev

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.76.rassykhaev

Tradition of Christmas Youth Gatherings at the Vishera River (Komi Republic)

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Galina Savelyeva

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.76.savelyeva

119

Christmas in the Traditions of Russian Mining Settlements of the Komi Republic (as Per Records of the Early Twenty-First Century)

by

Yulia Krasheninnikova

Svetlana Nizovtseva

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.76.krasheninnikova_nizovtseva

135

Historical Folklore Prose of the Russian Metallurgical Traditions of the Komi Republic

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Yulia Krasheninnikova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.76.krasheninnikova

155

Kazakh Diaspora in Kyrgyzstan: History of Settlement and Ethnographic Peculiarities

by

Bibiziya Kalshabayeva

Gulnara Dadabayeva

Dauren Eskekbaev

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.76.kazakh

Interview

Mythology Offers Good Arguments for Solving the Puzzle of Migration. Interview with Mexican Mythologist Martín Cuitzeo Domínguez Núñez 179

Henri Zeigo

Book review

The Greek Roots of Myth Criticism. - Frog [187]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 75

January 2019

ISSN 1406-0949

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Contemporary Deposits at Sacred Places: Reflections on Contemporary Paganism in Estonia and Finland

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Tõnno Jonuks

Tiina Äikäs

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.75.jonuks_aikas

The Muong Epic Cycle of "The Birth of the Earth and Water": Main Themes, Motifs, and Culture Heroes

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Nina Grigoreva

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.75.grigoreva

The Travelling Girl and Her Helpful Siblings: An Unnoticed Boreal Tale and the ATU Index

by

Yuri Berezkin

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.75.berezkin

What Does the Storyteller Sing? On Transcribing the Epics of South Siberian Turks

by

Dmitriy Funk

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.75.funk

109

Social and Political Criticisms Embedded in Chinese Myths and Legends

by

HE Xiyao

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.75.xiyao

131

Context- and Belief-Related Aspects of Estonian Riddles

by

Piret Voolaid

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.75.voolaid

149

Representing Sexuality through Folklore: Erotic Folktales and Online Jokes as "Mirrors" of Gender Hierarchies

by

Aleksandar Takovski

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.75.takovski

173

Reluctant Entrepreneurs of the Russian Far East: Another View on the Economic Strategies of Entrepreneurs

by

Aimar Ventsel

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.75.ventsel

191

"I Exist Therefore You Exist, We Exist Therefore They Exist": Narratives of Mutuality between Deities (Yul-Lha Gzhi Bdag) and Lhopo (Bhutia) Villagers in Sikkim

by

Kikee D. Bhutia

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.75.bhutia

News in brief

International Conference on Belief Narratives in Folklore Studies: Narrating the Supernatural. - Saša Babič [207]

Book review

Gilgamesh as Calendric Year. - Vladimir Sazonov [209]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 74

April 2018

ISSN 1406-0949

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Creativity and Humor in the Online Folklore of the 2014 Elections in Hungary

by

Katalin Vargha

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.74.vargha

Gay Clowns, Pigs and Traitors: An Emotion Analysis of Online Hate Speech Directed at the Swedish-Speaking Population in Finland

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Karin Sandell

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.74.sandell

Constructing Alien Space in South Slavic Oral Lyric

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Ana Vukmanović

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.74.vukmanovic

Folk Mystic: A Narrative of a Polish Highlander Cunegonde Siwiec

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Tomasz Kalniuk

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.74.kalniuk

Dynamic Musicscapes in Northern Greece: A Roma Case Study

by

Christos Papakostas

Dimitrios Goulimaris

Maria Douma

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.74.greece

115

On a Possible Characteristic of the Governing System of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten)

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Tarmo Kulmar

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.74.kulmar

129

Heritage on Demand: Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage Initiative in Croatian Context

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Marijana Hameršak

Iva Pleše

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.74.croatia

In Memoriam

Barre Toelken 153

News in brief

Comparative Mythology on the Earth and Humankind: Past, Present and Future. - Irina Sedakova, Marina Valentsova [155]

Book review

Literature in an Esoteric Key. - Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković [165]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 73

The Heritagization of the Isonzo Front

Guest Editors:

Jurij Fikfak & Božidar Jezernik

March 2018

ISSN 1406-0949

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Introduction: The Cultural Heritage of the Isonzo Front

by

Jurij Fikfak

Božidar Jezernik

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.73.introduction

Historical Introduction: The Experience and Memory of Trenches Near the Soča River

by

Marko Štepec

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.73.stepec

Memorialization of the First World War in the Landscape of the Julian Alps

by

Jaka Repič

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.73.repic

From the Hinterland: Commemorating the Centenary of World War I in Bohinj

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Tatiana Bajuk Senčar

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.73.bajuk

Knowledge of Place in Three Popular Music Representations of the First World War

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Miha Kozorog

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.73.kozorog

Learning by Collecting: Amateur Collectors and Their Shifting Positions in the Isonzo Front Heritagization and Tourism Adaptation

by

Boštjan Kravanja

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.73.kravanja

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Continuity and Revitalisation in Sacrificial Rituals by the Eastern Udmurt Part II. Collective Sacrificial Rituals by the Bashkortostan Udmurt: Revitalisation and Innovation

by

Eva Toulouze

Ranus Sadikov

Laur Vallikivi

Liivo Niglas

Nikolai Anisimov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.73.udmurt2

145

Multi-Dimensional Borders in Narration

by

Tiiu Jaago

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.73.jaago

161

Metaphorical Integrations in Kurdish Riddles

by

Rahman Veisi Hasar

Ebrahim Badakhshan

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.73.kurdish

News in brief

News

Collecting Action “School Lore 2018” Exceeded All Expectations. - Reet Hiiemäe [180]

Polar Readings 2018 on Board the Krasin Icebreaker. - Olga Stepanova, Alexandra Terekhina [190]

Conference on Folk Narratives in Ragusa. - Reet Hiiemäe [193]

Book review

Alliterative Histories. - Jonathan Roper [196]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 72

Belarusian Folklore

Guest Editors:

Tatsiana Valodzina

February 2018

ISSN 1406-0949

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Introduction: Belarusian Folklore Studies

by

Tatsiana Valodzina

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.72.introduction

Reflexes of Ancient Ideas about Divine Twins in the Images of Saints George and Nicholas in Belarusian Folklore

by

Siarhei Sańko

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.72.sanko

On the Borders of Ethnolinguistic Equivalence: Belarusian-South Slavic Parallels

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Nikolai Antropov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.72.antropov

Contemporary Recordings of Belarusian Folk Biblical and Non-Biblical Etiological Legends in the Comparative-Historical Aspect

by

Elena Boganeva

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.72.boganeva

The Norm and Its Deviations in the Context of Childhood Semiotics: The Belarus Tradition against the Slavonic Background

by

Tatsiana Valodzina

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.72.valodzina

111

Worldview of Belarusian Folk Song Lyrics

by

Yanina Hrynevich

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.72.hrynevich

141

The Pleiades in the Belarusian Tradition: Folklore Texts and Linguistic Areal Studies

by

Tsimafei Avilin

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.72.avilin

159

The Problems Associated with Studying Folk Verse

by

Jury Paciupa

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.72.paciupa

181

Patriotism and Love in the Context of the Estonian Western Diaspora

by

Triinu Ojamaa

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.72.ojamaa

203

Continuity and Revitalisation in Sacrificial Rituals by the Eastern Udmurt

by

Eva Toulouze

Ranus Sadikov

Laur Vallikivi

Liivo Niglas

Nikolai Anisimov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.72.udmurt1

Interview

Humor Makes Life More Tolerable. Interview with American Folklorist Trevor J. Blank 219

Henri Zeigo

News in brief

News

Folklorists as Partners in an International Cooperation Project of Sustainable Rural Tourism. - Reet Hiiemäe [226]

International Conference of Humour Researchers in Tallinn. - Piret Voolaid, Liisi Laineste [227]

Book review

A Study of Human-Nature Relations. - Anna Sirina [229]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 71

Culinary culture

Guest Editors:

Liisi Laineste

January 2018

ISSN 1406-0949

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Introduction

by

Liisi Laineste

Eating Out and In Between: Observations from the Pop-Up Restaurant Scene in Estonia

by

Ester Bardone

Anu Kannike

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.71.bardone_kannike

Reinventing Habsburg Cuisine in Twenty-First Century Trieste

by

Daša Ličen

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.71.licen

The Taste of “Estonianness”: Cookbooks as Part of Nation-Building in Estonia

by

Liisi Laineste

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.71.laineste

Traditional Culture and Contemporary Economy: Constructing Cultural Heritage Through Bread-Making

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Ivanka Petrova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.71.petrova

Cooking with Humour: A Study of Belarusian Humorous Folklore about Family Cooking Traditions

by

Anastasiya Fiadotava

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.71.fiadotava

113

The Meaning of Food in the Novel Peony in Love

by

Dorota Brzozowska

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.71.brzozowska

129

Emotion Meets Taste: Taste-Motivated Emotion Terms in Estonian

by

Ene Vainik

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.71.vainik

155

Translation of Menus: Labour of Sisyphos, Squaring the Circle or Marrying Water and Fire?

by

Władysław Chłopicki

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.71.chlopicki

179

The Spiritual Significance of Komburongo in the Folk Beliefs of the Dusunic Peoples of North Borneo

by

Low Kok On

Solehah Ishak

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.71.low_solehah

207

‘Wondrous Dressing’ with Celestial Bodies in Russian Charms and Lyrical Poetry

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Andrei Toporkov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.71.toporkov

217

Interview with Monika Kropej Telban and Katja Hrobat Virloget, Editors of Studia Mythologica Slavica, after Two Decades of the Journal

by

Mare Kõiva

In Memoriam

Elisabeth Piirainen 221

Book review

Adapa – Mythical Sage From Ancient Mesopotamia. - Vladimir Sazonov [222]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 70

Small Places, Large Issues

Guest Editors:

Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, Dominika Czarnecka & Dagnosław Demski

April 2017

ISSN 1406-0949

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“Small Places, Large Issues”: Between Military Space and Post-Military Place

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Elo-Hanna Seljamaa

Dominika Czarnecka

Dagnosław Demski

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.70.introduction

After the End of “Little Moscow”: Memories, (Re)Construction, and Appropriation of Space in Wünsdorf

by

Christoph Lorke

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.70.lorke

German Democratic Republic of the 1970s–1980s through the Eyes of Soviet Officers (Oral Stories)

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Evgeny V. Volkov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.70.volkov

“Invisible Places, Hidden History”: The Role of the Former “Russian Airport” in Telling Stories about the Front in the South Vértes Region

by

István Sántha

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.70.santha

Life with Soviet Troops in Czechoslovakia and after Their Withdrawal

by

Prokop Tomek

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.70.tomek

121

The “Degraded” Landscape of a Post-Soviet Military Base in Poland: Outside vs. Inside View

by

Dominika Czarnecka

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.70.czarnecka

149

Mārciena – between Legacy and Nostalgia

by

Ilze Boldāne-Zeļenkova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.70.boldane_zelenkova

171

Values, Substantiality, and Passage of Time: Representations and Reinterpretations of Military Heritage

by

Dagnosław Demski

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.70.demski

193

From the Borderland of the Iron Curtain to European and World Cultural Heritage

by

Melinda Harlov-Csortán

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.70.harlov_csortan

225

Contemporary Transformations of Ethnology/Anthropology in Russia: An Invitation to Further Discussion

by

Dmitry Belyukov

Irina Nam

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.70.discussion

In Memoriam

Christie Davies 239

News in brief

News

The 29th International Society For Humor Studies Conference in Montreal, Canada. - Piret Voolaid, Liisi Laineste [240]

Nikolai Anisimov Defended His Doctoral Thesis on the Udmurts’ Birth and Burial Customs. - Aado Lintrop [243]

Book review

Books

Contemporary Legends in Slovenia. - Saša Babič [245]

Still Ecological Migration? An Ewenki Case. - Dmitriy Funk, Seil Djanyzakova [246]

Living Oral History Tradition in the 21st Century Europe. - Aimar Ventsel [251]

An Anthropology of Outer Space: Planetary Imagination and Placemaking Practices. - Irina Popravko, Ivan Tchalakov [253]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 69

Rumours and Conspiracy Theories

Guest Editors:

Eda Kalmre

March 2017

ISSN 1406-0949

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Introduction: The Social and Political Dynamic of Conspiracy Theories, Rumours, Fake News, and Belief Narratives

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Eda Kalmre

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.69.introduction

Rumor, Humor, and Other Forms of Election Folklore in Non-Democratic Societies: The Case of Belarus

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Anastasiya Astapova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.69.astapova

The Image of the West in Conspiracy Theories in Slovakia and Its Historical Context

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Zuzana Panczová

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.69.panczova

The Beast Computer in Brussels: Religion, Conspiracy Theories, and Contemporary Legends in Post-Soviet Culture

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Alexander Panchenko

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.69.panchenko

Rumour and Humour in #WhereIsPutin and #PutinUmer: Global Media and the Cult of Putin

by

Liisi Laineste

Eda Kalmre

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.69.laineste_kalmre

115

Women-Snipers from Chechnya to Ukraine: A Post-Soviet War Legend

by

Amandine Regamey

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.69.regamey

145

Representation of the Snowden Scandal in the Estonian Media: The Construction of Threats and Fear

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Mari-Liis Madisson

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.69.madisson

169

Zeroing in on Performance 2.0: From Serialization to Performative Enactments

by

Antti Lindfors

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.69.lindfors

195

Riddles and Humour

by

Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.69.kaivola_bregenhoj

News in brief

News

Scientific Symposium on Folklore Heroes. - Saša Babič [211]

Folklore and the Public: Estonian Folklorists’ 12th Winter Conference. - Katre Kikas [212]

Cultural Scholars Gathered in Tartu. - Liisi Laineste [214]

Book review

Mutual Interaction of Tourism and Cultural Heritage on the Example of Dracula Lore. - Reet Hiiemäe [215]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 68

Oral Singing Traditions. II

Guest Editors:

Janika Oras

February 2017

ISSN 1406-0949

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Introducing Setos on Stage: On the Early Performances of Seto Singing Culture

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Andreas Kalkun

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.68.kalkun

On the Relict Scales and Melodic Structures in the Seto Shepherd Tune Kar´ahääl

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Žanna Pärtlas

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.68.partlas

Historical Skolt Sami Music and Two Types of Melodic Structures in Leu′dd Tradition

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Marko Jouste

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.68.jouste

Star Bride Marries a Cook: The Changing Processes in the Oral Singing Tradition and in Folk Song Collecting on the Western Estonian Island of Hiiumaa. II

by

Helen Kõmmus

Taive Särg

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.68.kommus_sarg

115

Where Do Songs Come From? An Attempt to Explain Some Verses of Regilaul

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Aado Lintrop

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.68.lintrop

131

How Old Is Runosong? Dating the Motifs of Burial-Related Folk Songs by Using Archaeological Material

by

Pikne Kama

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.68.kama

169

The Motif of Apple in Different Cultures and Its Usage in Anatolian Folk Songs

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Ahmet Emre Dağtaşoğlu

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.68.dagtasoglu

News in brief

News

The 10th Colloquium on Proverbs. - Liisa Granbom-Herranen [187]

Oral and Written in Culture: Connections and Collisions. - Hegely Klaus [188]

Some Thoughts Evoked by Reading Reet Hiiemäe’s Doctoral Dissertation. - Merili Metsvahi [191]

Book review

Books

A Jungian Interpretation of the Phenomenon of Heavy Metal. - Lozanka Peycheva [195]

The History of Metaphors? - Jonathan Roper [196]

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Our Authors 199

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 67

Oral Singing Traditions. I

Guest Editors:

Janika Oras

January 2017

ISSN 1406-0949

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Introduction

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Janika Oras

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.67.introduction

Literary Kalevala-Metre and Hybrid Poetics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Finland

by

Kati Kallio

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.67.kallio

Words, Forms, and Phrases in Estonian Folksongs and Hymn

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Kristiina Ross

Ahti Lohk

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.67.ross_lohk

Towards a Typology of Parallelism in Estonian Poetic Folklore

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Mari Sarv

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.67.sarv

Star Bride Marries a Cook: The Changing Processes in the Oral Singing Tradition and in Folk Song Collecting on the Western Estonian Island of Hiiumaa. I

by

Helen Kõmmus

Taive Särg

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.67.kommus_sarg

115

Regilaul in the Political Whirlpool: On Collecting Regilaul in Northeast Estonia in the Second Half of the 1950s

by

Liina Saarlo

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.67.saarlo

143

Mari and Marie: Performativity and Creativity of Two Estonian Singers in the Late Nineteenth Century

by

Janika Oras

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.67.oras

171

Emotional Transpositions: Interpreting Oral Lyric Poetry

by

Niina Hämäläinen

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2017.67.hamalainen

In Memoriam

Arvo Krikmann 199

News in brief

Margaret Lyngdoh Defended a Dissertation on Khasi Vernacular Belief Worlds. - Ergo-Hart Västrik [201]

Book review

Sergei Stadnikov and Otto Friedrich Richter’s Legacy. - Vladimir Sazonov [203]

List of contributors

Our Authors 207