Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 77

Human-Animal Relationships

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Guest Editors

Mirjam Mencej

March 2019

ISSN 1406-0949

Introduction: The Human-Animal Relationship in Belief Narratives

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Mirjam Mencej

Animals, Tale Types, and Belief Narratives in Argentinean Folklore

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María Inés Palleiro

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.77.palleiro

Playing with Nezumi Toys, Dreaming of Unattainable Utopia: Unique Portrayals of Nezumi in Japanese Folk Tradition

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Fumihiko Kobayashi

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.77.kobayashi

What Can the Mythical Frog Tell Us? The Symbolism and Role of the Frog in History and Modernity

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Jelka Vince Pallua

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.77.pallua

The Werewolf as a Religious and Ethnic Other in a Herzegovinian Legend

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Mirjam Mencej

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.77.mencej

Belief Narratives of Spirit-Animals: A Case Study on Estonian Contemporary Folklore

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Reet Hiiemäe

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.77.hiiemae

Cockroaches: From Belief Narratives to the Contemporary Visual Practice of Catherine Chalmers, or How Cockroaches Have Survived on Earth for More than 320 Million Years

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Suzana Marjanić

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.77.marjanic

Listening to the Elder Brothers: Animals, Agents, and Posthumanism in Native Versus Non-Native American Myths and Worldviews

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Tok Thompson

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.77.thompson

The Wolf: Human/Non-Human Relations on the Basis of Etiologies and Verbal Communication

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Mare Kõiva

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2019.77.koiva

Interview

To Reach History, We Need Imagination. Interview with Mieke Bal 199

Henri Zeigo

News in brief

News

9th Annual Conference of the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies. - Piret Voolaid [205]

Symposium Dedicated to the 80th Birth Anniversary of Academician Arvo Krikmann at the Estonian Literary Museum. - Liisa Granbom-Herranen [206]

Doctoral Dissertation on Transnational Family Life Across the Gulf of Finland. - Maarja Kaaristo [209]

Book review

Books

An Intriguing Fieldwork Document. - Jonathan Roper [212]

Kyrgyztan from the Perspective of Legal Anthropology. - Aimar Ventsel [214]