Does Sense of Place Still Exist? by Helena Ruotsala

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The Socio-Cultural Effects of Banning Traditional Midwives from Attending Homebirth in Romania by Adina Hulubas

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Living with Koryak Traditions: Playing with Culture in Siberia by Aimar Ventsel

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Creating and Dealing with Cultural Heritage in the Erzgebirge Region – A Field Report by Arnika Peselmann

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Young People's Joint Leisure Activities in Traditional Karelian Culture: Norms and Social Practice by Valentina Mironova, Julia Litvin

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Kama-taguste udmurtide kevadise suure päeva (bõddzh’õnal) kombetalituse laulufolkloor by Irina Pchelovodova, Nikolai Anisimov

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“I Often Experience a Lack of Trust”: Filipino Migrant Nurses’ Experiences of Coping with Multiple Conflicting Workplace Demands by Thora H. Christiansen, Erla S. Kristjánsdóttir, Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir

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Genghis Khan in Folklore Legends of the Mongolian Peoples: Mythological Framework of Memory by Aleksand V. Isakov

“…Comparative-typological and structural-semiotic methods of folkloristics are used as the main research methods. …”
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Une femme faussaire dans les Landes de Gascogne sous l’Ancien-Régime by Bernard Traimond

“…The Gascon folkloriste Félix Arnaudin (1844-1921) tells the story of the lady of Z, model of the woman counterfeiter who would have lived and made of the counterfeit money at the beginning of the XVIIIth century to Escource. …”
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The History of the Creation and Promotion of the First Consolidated Text of the Bashkir Folk Epic “Idukai and Muradim” by Khabutdinova M.M.

“…The research material was based on personal sources: memoirs, correspondence of a folklorist, a summary text of the 1933 edition with author’s notes for translators. …”
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« Artiste et assassin » : Jules Laforgue et la complainte criminelle by Nils Couturier

“…In this perspective, we analyse the treatment that Laforgue gives in one of his chronicles to the case of Jean Baffier, a sculptor and folklorist who committed a political assassination attempt. …”
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La mémoire du crime. Complaintes de tradition orale, justice et société dans la Bretagne d’Ancien Régime by Éva Guillorel

“…Although they were recorded in the nineteenth century by antiquarians and folklorists, they have preserved the memory of local events that took place between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. …”
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On the question of stu­dying Tatar variants of the epos about Idegey by Mirgaleev I.M., Fazlutdinov I.I., Zakirova I.G.

“…The works of famous folklorists are involved, including studies on the dastan “Idegey” by famous folklorists Nigmat Hakim and Naki Isanbet. …”
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The Greek Ethnography. A critical overview by Aris Tsantiropoulos

“…The main argument of this article is that the introduction of postmodernism in Greek Anthropology prevented a dialogue with the pre-existing field research work that had been conducted in Greece by non Greek Ethnographers and Greek Folklorists or Historians. This fact has specific consequences at the epistemological, theoretical and methodological level of contemporary Greek Ethnography. …”
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Myth and Immortality in Russian Folktales by Enrique Santos Marinas

“…As Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp already set out in his monograph <i>Theory and History of Folklore</i> (1984), folktales, and in particular fairy tales, could preserve the remnants of myths and rites from very ancient stages of human civilisation, dating back to Prehistoric times themselves. …”
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Ovidiu Papadima – o evocare by Teodor Vârgolici

“…O.P. was respected as a folklorist, literary critic and literary historian. …”
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Apollo in the North: Transmutations of the Sun God in Walter Pater’s Imaginary Portraits by Lene Østermark-Johansen

“…Although he chose historical settings in medieval France and eighteenth-century Germany for his tales, they reflect recent debates about the disappearance of the sun and the folkloristic animalism of Apollo the nature god. Furthermore, Pater is engaging in a complex geopolitical argument, playing out German, French and English culture against each other, as he traces the survival of the pagan gods after the onset of Christianity. …”
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Historical realities in the “Idegei” dastan by Iskhakov D.M.

“…Research materials: Texts of the dastan “Idegei” with an emphasis on the Tatar versions of this epic work, including with special attention, first of all, to its national version, created through the efforts of Tatar folklorists and based on a number of oral and written versions (Siberian-Tatar, Crimean, Volga-Ural) of the dastan. …”
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Poetry as Pagan Pilgrimage: the ‘Animative Impulse’ of Thomas Hardy’s Verse by Laurence Estanove

“…This essay proposes to observe once again how the two traditions seep into each other, but chooses to focus specifically on Hardy’s verse and to examine this in the light of the poet’s agnosticism and of his appropriation of some folkloristic and positivistic ideas. Hardy’s interest in the fusion of Pagan and Christian beliefs, present in the surfacing traces of the past, actually depends on the human associations to be found there. …”
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Religious motives in the dastan “Idegey” by Valiullina F.M.

“…Research materials: The main sources are published and archival Tatar versions of the epos “Idegey”, research by famous folklorists, and information from literary and scientific sources. …”
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