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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“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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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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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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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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