Folklore vol. 96
Agency of the Dead
Guest Editors:
Mirjam Mencej
2025
ISSN 1406-0949
Journal DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2025.96
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The Purgatory Souls as Interceding Agents Between Earth and Heaven
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Individual Views and Global Trends: The Conceptualisation of the Dead. A Case Study
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Maternal Mortality and Rituals: Exploring Agency of the Dead Through a Haunted Malay Doctor
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Right Place, Right Behaviour: Deathscapes as a Moral Space in the Context of Alternative Spirituality in Slovakia
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DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2025.96.buzhekova
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Comforting Dreamscapes: Exploring the Agency of the Dead through Dreams among Spiritual People in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Living Connections: Continuing Bonds Between the Living and the Deceased in Rural Northeastern Slovenia
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DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2025.96.zupanc
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Paved-over Graveyards in Bosnia: The Agency of the Dead, Personal Experience Narratives, and Legends in the Media
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An Overlooked Storytelling Tradition: Teyo Pehlivan and the Turkish Tall Tale
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Exploring the Elements of Spirituality in the Folklore of Odisha: A Select Study
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Ritual Labour and Maintenance of Tradition in a Village Temple: An Occupational Folklore Approach to Chinese Religion
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“I Thank Folklore for Everything”: On the Anniversary of the Udmurt Folklorist Galina Glukhova
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Jawaharlal Handoo, a Legendary Hero of Folklore Studies in India
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“To Hear The Mermaids Sing”: Visual Figuration, Myth and Desire in the Case of The Waterwoman
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Ethnography of the Balkan Cults in Abruzzi and Molise (Italy): Two Case-Studies
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Distinguishing Between Proverbs and Sayings According to Josef Mlacek’s Classification in Dictionaries and Paremiological Collections: The Case of Explanations of Meaning in Two Slovenian Dictionaries
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Ukrainian Folk Dumy: Problems of Historical Development and Modern Performance
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The Wedding Water (Neke Sui) and the Blending of Ancestral and Islamic Rituals in the Kazakh Traditional Marriage
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Integration of Traditional Chinese Folk Music Culture into Music Education at Middle Schools
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Chinese National Motifs in the Folk Song Mo Li Hua: Influence on Modern Chinese Music
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Some Aspects of Food Security/Insecurity of Ukrainian Society: The Socio-Economic Dimension
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News in brief
Irina Sedakova 70. - Editorial board of the journal Folklore:EJF [251]
DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2025.95.n01
Nordic and Baltic Digital Humanities Conference “Digital Dreams and Practices”, March 3–7, 2025, in Tartu. - Mari Väina [253]
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Folklore vol. 94
Guest Editors:
Liina Saarlo, Janika Oras, Kristin Kuutma
2024
ISSN 1406-0949
Journal DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2024.94
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Introduction: The Potential and Constraints of Cultural Transfer through Voice, Connection, and Message
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Traditional Songs and Their Messages in the Corona Period: An Experience from Serbia
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“Letters from America”: Songs of Lithuanian Immigrants in the USA
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As Much as Necessary and as Little as Possible: The Interplay of National and Soviet in a Wedding Performance at the 1960 Folk Art Evening of the Estonian Song Festival
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Ainu Puri as a Compass: From Yukar Musical Epics to a Contemporary Context of Transnational Indigeneity of the Ainu
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She Sang in a Beautiful Light Voice: Musical Qualities of Runosong Performances in Fieldwork Reports
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Melancholic, Joyful, and Outlaw Voices: Finnish Rhymed Couplets and Writers’ Archival Materials
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Bridging Northern and Southern Traditions in the Finnic Corpus of Oral Poetry
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Exploring the Semantics and Structure of Vocatives in Ukrainian Folk Songs
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Corpus-Based Research of Semantic Aspects of Laul-Stem Words in Estonian, Focused on Past Newspaper Texts and Folk Song Lyrics
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Success Story or Traumatic Experience? An Attempt to Integrate Trauma Theory with Oral History Research for the Interpretation of First-Person Stories
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Archtypology of the Figural Antagonist in Classical Fairy Tales and Other Culture-Forming Stories
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Youth Identity Development on the Basis of Traditional Kazakh Folk Music
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The Bowed Lyre of Estonia’s Swedes: Origin, Diffusion, Decline, Revival
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Humorous Reactions to Controversies in the Estonian Public Sphere: Form, Content, Mechanisms and Comments
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Ritual, Risk, and Danger: Avoidance Rituals among Antiquity Looters
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Traditional Beliefs and Real Influence of Full Moon Days on the Behavior of Community Pharmacy Customers in Estonia
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Ethno-Graphics: Folklore and Baltic Printmaking in the Period of Late Socialism
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In Memoriam
Albena Georgieva - Irina Sedakova [245]
Book review
Nordic Everyday Popular Storytelling. - Anders Gustavsson [247]
Folklore vol. 92
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Representations of Gender in Estonian Graffiti and Street Art
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Adopting or Dodging the Heroic Model: Professional Trajectories of Estonian Women Architects
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“Wooing Werewolve: Girls’ Genius, Feminine, and Initiation in Angela Carter’s and Märta Tikkanen’s Versions of “Little Red Riding Hood”
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The Wild Woman Archetype: A Comparative Study of Motif Correspondence Between “Bluebeard” and the Turkish Fairy Tale “İğci Baba”
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An Archetypal Analysis of the Queen Mother of the West in Chinese Mythology
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Traces of a Greek Myth (?) in Subcultures of Lur-Inhabited Regions of Western Iran
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The Structures of Dialect as the Founding Element of Social Identity: The Case of Bursa City
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News in brief
Impressions from a World Conference of Ethnologists and Anthropologists in India. - Reet Hiiemäe, Andrus Tins [223]
Book review
What Can We Know of the Minstrels’ Songs? - Jonathan Roper [226]
Folklore vol. 91
Guest Editors:
Mari Sarv, Ave Goršič, Risto Järv
April 2023
ISSN 1406-0949
Journal DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2023.91
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Performing an Archive: Aims, Interests, Ideologies and Expectations
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Aleksei Peterson in the Southern Veps Villages in 1965–1969: A Chapter from the History of Soviet Estonian Ethnography
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If Oskar Kolberg Had Had the Phonograph… Or How to Read the Oldest Archival Notes of Polish Traditional Music through the Prism of Phonographic Experience
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“The History of the Formation of Folklore Collections in Belarus
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Folklore Activities of the Lithuanian Science Society: Utopian Goals or Insightful Ideas?
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The Contradictory Foundation of the Estonian Folklore Archives: Traditionality and Modernism, Unification and Segregation, and Basics of Authenticity
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How to Participate in Participatory Music Making at a Contemporary Folk Music Festival: Runosong Nests at the Viljandi Folk Music Festival and Pelimanni Evenings at the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival
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Archives and the Bodily Dimension of Traditional Dance Knowledge
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Opening Archives to Society: The Experience from the Folklore Archive at Rovira i Virgili University
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Combining Archival and Academic Research in Dissident Manuscripts: The Ostrobothnian Mystics Project (Finland)
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Udmurt Folklore Material in the Folklore Archives of the Estonian Literary Museum and Its Collectors: A Brief Review
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Book review
Siberian Mordvin Folklore Traditions. - Galina Soldatova [238]
Folklore vol. 90
Special Edition for CEES
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Heroes and Villains in Memes on the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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“I Am Like Green Firewood – Not Going Out, Not Catching Fire!” A Prisoner’s Self-Portrait in Letters
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The Estonian Language and Its Influence on Music: A Cognitive Sciences Approach
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Gender Perspectives in the Study of Estonian Society and Culture: Current State and Challenges
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The Popular Ballad, Rumours and Memories as a Special Narrative Format
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Developmental Changes in Acoustic Characteristics of Speech of Estonian Adolescents
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Layers of Folkloric Variation: Computational Explorations of Poetic and Narrative Text Corpora
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Book review
How the Internet Changed Humor. - Liisi Laineste [267]
Folklore vol. 89
Guest Editors:
Kirsi Laurén, Virpi Kaukio, Pauliina Latvala-Harvilahti
February 2023
ISSN 1406-0949
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Experiences of Mire Sports: Sensory Encounters in Nature
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Figures in the Mire: Towards Transformative Art and a Respectful Mire Relationship
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Messy Affairs with Imagined Swamp Creatures: The Human-Nature Relationship in Swamp Monster Narratives
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Multi-Use of Cranberries (Vaccinium Spp.): Heritage and Pharmaceutical Results
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“Here and There One Seed Sprouts, and Then It Seems We Have Done Something”: Nurturing Creativity in Elementary Schools
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Motif Index of Prophetic Dream Narratives: Methods of Compilation
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Narrating Ethnicity in Oral History Interviews: Life Stories of People Resettled from Estonia to Germany in 1941
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In Memoriam
Dan Ben-Amos 167
Mare Kõiva
News in brief
New Pilgrimages in Norway. - Anders Gustavsson [219]
Book review
Folklore vol. 88
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Traditional Healing Expectations in Light of Placebo and Performance Studies
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‘Have You Heard of Kalevauva.fi Yet?’ Modern Folklore, Humour, and Gender in the Lyrics of the Finnish Folk Troubadour Duo Kalevauva.fi
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Messages Behind Self-Gifting Practices: A Phenomenological-Anthropological Approach
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The European Bear’s Son Tale: Its Reception and Influence on Indigenous Oral Traditions in North America
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Melting in the Melting Pot: The Acculturation Experience of the Ahiska Turks in the US
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The Status and Roles of Women in Terms of Gender in Ancient Turkish History and Culture Based on the Dīwān Lughāt Al-Turk – The First Turkish Dictionary
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Political Meanings Hidden Behind Enchanting Melodies: How China Delivered Ideological Messages in the Song Cycle “Four Seasons of Our Motherland”
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DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2023.88.zhao_zhao
News in brief
Book review
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Migration. - Mare Kõiva [238]
Folklore vol. 87
Guest Editors:
Irina Sedakova, Nina Vlaskina & Laurent S. Fournier
March 2022
ISSN 1406-0949
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Ritual Rules in Changing Circumstances: Break, Adapt or Maintain? An Introduction
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Calendric Feast Bans and the Punishment for Violating Them in the Bulgarian Traditional Culture
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The Mute: Ritual and Transgressive Meanings of the Masked Character in the Romanian Căluş Ritual
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The Ritual Year of the Nekrasov Cossacks in Turkey and in Russia: Reflecting on the Adaptation to New Environments
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Easter Traditions among Slovenes in Italy (Natisone Valley)
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Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Innovation and Tradition in the World of Quarantine Weddings
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Vindications and Customs: Women’s Participation in Local Festive Rituals in Spain
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The Life of Rituals during the Pandemic: The Ritual Year SIEF WG Roundtable at the SIEF 2021 Congress
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Rules and Norms, Freedom, and Regulation: The 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF)
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News in brief
On the Jubilee of Emily Lyle. - The SIEF Ritual Year Working Group [243]
The 14th Annual Conference of the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies, and the 5th International Conference “Balkan and Baltic States in United Europe: History, Religion and Culture V”. - Ralitsa Savova [245]
Workshop “Art in COVID-19 Humour”. - Anastasiya Fiadotava [253]
Doctoral Dissertation about Life in the Lhopo Community. - Davide Torri [256]
Book review
Staged Otherness and Performed Identity. - Carlo A. Cubero [261]