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Journal of Folklore Research: An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2002
In this essay, which is based upon a paper we gave at the Seventh SIEF Conference in Budapest in April 2001, we present some results of an ongoing dialogue between the two of us over the past years. A recent focus of our discussions has been the relations between Folklore Studies, Social History, and Cultural Studies. More generally, we have ranged across questions concerning our own positions in the academic field and the production of knowledge and power inside and outside the academy. "The academy" is a rather abstract notion in this instance, since "our" academies are very differently located, and we in them.
Mapping the History of Folklore Studies: Centers, Borderlands and Shared Spaces
Besides having an impressive amount of folklore items, over time it became more and more important to have the contextual data next to the archival texts as well. In Estonia, this knowledge gained more importance and attention in the middle of the 20 th century, when monumental text editions were being prepared for publishing. To improve that background knowledge, both folklorists and co-workers searched for the early collectors' and informants' data. One of the co-workers of the folklore archives was schoolteacher and local history activist August Martin. As a man clearly interested in the topic, he tirelessly continued searching for family members of informants and correspondents from the late 19 th and early 20 th century, various archival data on them and travelled extensively around his home area, north-eastern Estonia, trying to record information and acquire photos. In August Martin's correspondence with the archive, he also illustrates the difficulties of his task and his achievements, now preserved on 700 pages.
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2024
The Nordic Institute of Folklore, internationally well known by its abbreviation NIF, left a lasting imprint on the history of Nordic and international folkloristics despite its relatively short operation period of less than four decades. The present article, first in a series of forthcoming articles on NIF, examines Lauri Honko’s directorship in the 1970s and 1980s and focuses on the changing of the institute’s field of operation from folkloristics to ‘tradition science’. The term ‘tradition sci- ence’ (traditionsvetenskap in Swedish, perinnetiede in Finnish) was never clearly defined in NIF, but was used – and it has continued to be used in folkloristics and ethnology in Finland – in three meanings: an approximate synonym for folkloris- tics, a joint term for folkloristics and ethnology, and (in plural) an umbrella term for an unspecified number of fields in the study of history, vernacular religion, and culture. The possible earlier history of the term is beyond the scope of this research, but there are indications that the term came into use in both Finnish-lan- guage and Swedish-language folklore research in the early 1970s, while the similar term ‘tradition research’ (traditionsforskning in Swedish, perinteentutkimus in Finn- ish) has a longer history. The term ‘tradition science’ was adopted into NIF’s stat- utes around the same time as the Nordic Council of Ministers – through which the inter-governmental funding of NIF was administered – initiated the expansion of NIF’s profile to cover folk culture “in its entirety”, suggesting specifically the extension of NIF’s field of operation to include ethnology. Whether NIF imple- mented this expansion or not, and to what extent, is a matter of debate, and the topic of this article.
Fabula, 2012
February 2011 saw the biggest international gathering of folklorists in India after the XI ISFNR congress which had been held in 1995 at the Central Institute of In-th dian Languages in Mysore, in South India, the realization of the dream of Jawaharlal Handoo. This year's conference took place at the NorthEastern Hill University (NEHU for short) outside Shillong, capital of the state of Meghalaya, literally 'abode of the clouds', an area until recently not generally open to outsiders. The state was created in 1970 and its population is extremely diverse. Most world religions, as well as many local ones, are present, however, unlike most other states in India, Meghalaya is foremostly Christian (about 70% of its population). NEHU was founded shortly after the state, in 1973. The first department of folkloristics in India had been established in the NorthEast , in 1972, at the University of Guwahati in the neighbouring state of Assam. Now our hosts, the Department of Cultural and Creative Studies at NEHU's Shillong campus, has its own MA programme in folkloristics and also research facilities, as well as being engaged in documentation and conservation. Twice, in 2002 and again in 2006, it hosted meetings of the Indian Folklore Congress (IFC). The Department embraces folkloristics, music and painting. Its head, Desmond L. Kharmawphlang, was secretary of the local organizing committee. He, along with his students and staff, and other colleagues, acted as energetic and genial hosts who not only dealt with the myriad of administrative matters but also, in many cases, provided first class performances from folk dance in full traditional garb to rock!
2004 Annual Conference of the American Folklore Society
2005
On December 3, 2004, seven of the Ohio State University folklore students who attended the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society came together in the Folklore Archives on campus and had a discussion about their impressions of the meeting as well as how the meeting affected their views of the state of the field of folklore today. This is a transcription of segments of that discussion. The participants were: Al Berres (AB), a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English. This was his sixth AFS.
Folklore , 2022
The review of the 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), one of the first virtual events of such a scale, highlights modern tendencies in anthropology, ethnology, and folklore. The authors of the review observe the growing interdisciplinarity, the use of adjacent disciplines, and the politization and socialization of the traditional academic research. The Congress's eighteen streams included topics customary for the SIEF congresses ("Archives & Sources", "Narratives", "Food", "Material Culture and Museums", etc.) as well as new ones ("Posthumanism", "Intersectionality"), with over 1000 presentations in total. There is a detailed overview of several panels and streams, including those dedicated to the new folklore and changes in rituals due to the pandemic. The authors note the broadening geography of the participants and, as a result, the increasing number of academic traditions covered at the Congress, which was possible partly thanks to the virtual format.
Folklore as Tradition, Heritage and Profession
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Folklore as a field of study and academic discipline was first recognized following the works of Johann Gottfried Herder in 1770s. The works of Herder, his collection of 'folktales' from German speaking regions is considered the base for later folklore collections, such as those done by the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault. Although the discipline of folklore is now well established in various institutions across the Americas, Europe and Africa and Asia. This paper tries to understand folklore in relation with the concepts such as Tradition, Heritage and Profession. How folklore in this fast changing world represents the heritage, tradition, and profession of a community? Can folklore and its performance be appreciated for its inherent economic potential as a profession? The paper, through certain examples and observation, will try to understand the significance of these concepts and attempt to answer such questions.