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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 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

by

Laurent S. Fournier

Irina Sedakova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.87.introduction

Calendric Feast Bans and the Punishment for Violating Them in the Bulgarian Traditional Culture

by

Irina Sedakova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.87.sedakova

The Mute: Ritual and Transgressive Meanings of the Masked Character in the Romanian Căluş Ritual

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Anamaria Iuga

Georgiana Vlahbei

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.87.iuga_vlahbei

The Ritual Year of the Nekrasov Cossacks in Turkey and in Russia: Reflecting on the Adaptation to New Environments

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Nina Vlaskina

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.87.vlaskina

Easter Traditions among Slovenes in Italy (Natisone Valley)

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Gleb Pilipenko

Maria Yasinskaya

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.87.pilipenko_yasinskaya

105

Mediated Easter: Constructing Religious Rituals in a Lockdown

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Daria Radchenko

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.87.radchenko

125

Pilgrimages in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Romania

by

Irina Stahl

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.87.stahl

155

Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Innovation and Tradition in the World of Quarantine Weddings

by

Judit Balatonyi

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.87.balatonyi

177

Vindications and Customs: Women’s Participation in Local Festive Rituals in Spain

by

Lidia Montesinos Llinares

Margaret Bullen

Begoña Pecharromán Ferrer

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.87.spain

201

The Life of Rituals during the Pandemic: The Ritual Year SIEF WG Roundtable at the SIEF 2021 Congress

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Irina Stahl

Nina Vlaskina

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.87.stahl_vlaskina

229

Rules and Norms, Freedom, and Regulation: The 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF)

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Alexander Novik

Irina Sedakova

Anastasia Kharlamova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.87.sief15

News in brief

News

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]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 86

February 2022

ISSN 1406-0949

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Introduction: Earlier Experience of Collecting and Researching School Lore in Estonia and Slovenia

by

Saša Babič

Piret Voolaid

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.86.introduction

Collecting Slovenian School Lore Via E-Questionnaire: Analysis of the Collected Material and Revision of the Questionnaire

by

Saša Babič

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.86.babic

Play and Folklore in Children’s Peer Cultures

by

Barbara Ivančič Kutin

Katarina Šrimpf Vendramin

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.86.turk_srimpf

Children as Agents, Targets, and Intermediaries of Family Humour

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Anastasiya Fiadotava

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.86.fiadotava

Representations of Distance Learning in the Memes of the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic:: Humour as a Coping and Self-Defence Strategy

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Piret Voolaid

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.86.voolaid

111

Children as Consumers and Co-Creators of Cultural Products: The Impact of Foreign Films on Estonian Children’s Culture in the 1950s

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Astrid Tuisk

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.86.tuisk

133

Suicide Games, Abandoned Houses, and Thirst For Danger: The Youth’s Personal Experience Narratives and the Media’s Moral Panics about Semi-Supernatural Challenges in Estonia

by

Reet Hiiemäe

Andrus Tins

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.86.hiiemae_tins

149

Slovenian Folk Lullabies: Analysis of the Lullaby Texts and Their Functions

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Vanja Huzjan

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.86.huzjan

187

An Experienced Ethnologist’s Thoughts on Digitalization, Open Access, and Open Data as New Research Assets

by

Anders Gustavsson

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.86.gustavsson

193

Folklore and Greek Hagiography: Some Preliminary Notes

by

Giulia Gollo

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.86.gollo

203

The Romani in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation

by

Aleksandr Rusakov

Anastasia Kharlamova

Alexander Novik

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.86.review

News in brief

News

The 35th Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference “Re:22”. - Anastasiya Fiadotava [221]

Doctoral Dissertation on the Tradition of Majuli Sattras. - Lidia Guzy [224]

Borderline Issues Concerning the Autonomous Island of Åland in the Baltic Sea. - Anders Gustavsson [229]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 85

January 2022

ISSN 1406-0949

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Jin Ping Mei: A Story of Guanxi

by

Ruihui Han

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.85.han

The Simiots of Catalan Folklore: Neither Are Reminiscences So Old, Nor Are They So Strange Beings

by

Jordi Ardanuy

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.85.ardanuy

Female Genital Cutting in Ịjọland: Context, Performance, and Songs

by

Imomotimi Armstrong

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.85.armstrong

Tata Liba Ceremony for Reconciliation and Healing (Palu’e Island, Eastern Indonesia)

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Stefan Danerek

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.85.danerek

Fictional Folklore: On the Paremiology of A Game of Thrones

by

Luis J. Tosina Fernández

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.85.tosina

115

Personal Songbooks: Imprints of Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Lithuanian Written Culture

by

Jurgita Ūsaitytė

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.85.usaityte

141

Nursing Queen Archetype in the Context of Changes in Estonian Society: A Retrospective View

by

Merle Talvik

Taimi Tulva

Ülle Ernits

Kristi Puusepp

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.85.nursing

161

Plots of Gothic Origin in Ukrainian Folklore Prose

by

Mykhailo Rakhno

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.85.rakhno

181

Gender Role Perceptions in Selected South-African Folktales

by

Mehari Yimulaw Gebregeorgis

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.85.gebregeorgis

201

When a Crisis Opens New Academic Perspectives: The New Webinar Series of the SIEF Ritual Year Working Group

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Irina Sedakova

Irina Stahl

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2022.85.sedakova_stahl

News in brief

School Lore Competition for Canadian Estonians Concludes with Preliminary Results. - Piret Voolaid, Piret Noorhani [215]

Book review

Books

A Field for Further Investigation. - Jonathan Roper [218]

Historical Overview of Folklore Studies in Three Baltic Countries. - Aimar Ventsel [221]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 84

December 2021

ISSN 1406-0949

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Do Bulgakov’s Hella (Gella), Azazello, Behemoth, and Abadonna Have Ancient Near Eastern Origins?

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Vladimir Sazonov

Sirje Kupp-Sazonov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.84.sazonov_kupp-sazonov

Rumours in a Situation of Political Conflict: Catalonia and Its Referendum of Self-Determination

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Emili Samper

Carme Oriol

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.84.samper_oriol

The Image of the German, the Pole, the Latvian, and the Lithuanian in Lithuanian and Latvian Folklore

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Laima Anglickienė

Antra Kļavinska

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.84.anglickiene_klavinska

Challenging Hegemonic Gender Norms in Emma Donoghue’s “The Tale of the Rose” and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

by

Priyanka Banerjee

Rajni Singh

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.84.banerjee_singh

Women of the Twilight: The Narrative Spaces of Women in the Icelandic Rural Community of the Past

by

Júlíana Th. Magnúsdóttir

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.84.magnusdottir

127

Analysis of the Worldwide Distribution of the ‘Man or Animal in the Moon’ Motifs

by

Marc Thuillard

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.84.thuillard

145

Motifs of Inanimate Nature and Atmospheric Phenomena in Polish Folktales

by

Marcin Lisiecki

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.84.lisiecki

167

Exploring the Transformative Power of Play in African Children’s Games

by

Kennedy C. Chinyowa

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.84.chinyowa

News in brief

News

The Annual Young Researchers’ Conference “Young Voices” 2021. - Danila Rygovskiy [183]

Doctoral Thesis on Vernacular Theories and Practices. - Grégory Delaplace [184]

Book review

Joking about the Fear of Joking. - Elisabeth Kovtiak [188]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 83

Guest Editors:

Sergey Troitskiy, Leena Kurvet-Käosaar, Liisi Laineste

August 2021

ISSN 1406-0949

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Introduction: From Conceptual Debates to Practical Applications

by

Sergey Troitskiy

Leena Kurvet-Käosaar

Liisi Laineste

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.introduction

Trauma and the Victim Economy

by

Sergey Troitskiy

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.troitskiy

Traumatization of the Past and Martyrological Thinking in the Soviet Union and the Post-Soviet Space

by

Daniil Anikin

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.anikin

Historical Trauma between Event and Ethics: Aleida Assmann’s Theory in the Context of Trauma Studies

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Kseniya Kapelchuk

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.kapelchuk

Materialized Trauma Narratives of Border Crossings

by

Tuulikki Kurki

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.kurki

105

After the War and Repressions: Mediating of Traumatic Experiences in Estonian Life Stories

by

Tiiu Jaago

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.83

123

What We Remember and What We Forget: Selective Memory in the Holocaust

by

Maya Camargo-Vemuri

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.camargo_vemuri

135

One Trauma, Two Narratives: Adamah versus Tomorrow’s a Wonderful Day

by

Liat Steir-Livny

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.steir_livny

155

Card Index of Former Latvian SSR KGB Agents: Trauma and the Path to Public Reconciliation

by

Uldis Krēsliņš

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.kreslins

179

Routes to Forming an Affiliative Postmemory about Difficult Pages in History (Based on the Example of the Era of Political Repression)

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Yulia V. Zevako

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.zevako

207

Hospital Clowning as a Way to Overcome Trauma

by

Alyona Ivanova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.ivanova

235

Illness: Narratives, Imagery, and Politics

by

Daniele Monticelli

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.monticelli

News in brief

Mare Kõiva, Leading Researcher of the Estonian Literary Museum, Elected as Member of Academia Europaea. - Piret Voolaid [251]

Book review

Books

The Many Faces of Lithuanian Folklore. - Anastasiya Fiadotava [252]

A Multinational History of Catalan Folk Studies. - Jonathan Roper [255]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 82

Health & Pandemic

Guest Editors:

Reet Hiiemäe

February 2021

ISSN 1406-0949

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Introduction into Health-Related Folklore and Its Research: From First-Hand Experiences to Second-Hand Narrating Models

by

Reet Hiiemäe

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.introduction

Vernacular Reactions to COVID-19 in Estonia: Crisis Folklore and Coping

by

Reet Hiiemäe

Mare Kalda

Mare Kõiva

Piret Voolaid

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.estonia

The General, His Fandom, and a Participatory Pandemic

by

Angelina Ilieva

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.ilieva

COVID-19 and the Traditional Culture of the Udmurts

by

Nikolai Anisimov

Galina Glukhova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.anisimov_glukhova

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Faith in the Times of COVID-19: Integrating Religion in the Fight against COVID-19 in Tanzania

by

Thomas J. Ndaluka

Magolanga Shagembe

Jonas Kinanda

Vendelin Simon

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.tanzania

135

Online Coping with the First Wave: Covid Humor and Rumor on Dutch Social Media (March – July 2020)

by

Theo Meder

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.meder

159

Early Days of the Novel Coronavirus: Public Response in Social Media during the First Month of the Outbreak

by

Maris Kuperjanov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.kuperjanov

183

From “Unbelievable Stupidity” to “Secret Clues for Staying Healthy”: CAM Landscape and Boundary-Work in Estonian and Finnish Mainstream Media in April 2020

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Reet Hiiemäe

Terhi Utriainen

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.hiiemae_utriainen

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“Doctors Just Don’t Care about People!” How Medical Specialists Are Depicted in a Vaccine-Critical Estonian Facebook Group

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Marko Uibu

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.82.uibu

News in brief

News

Autumn School Concentrated on Interdisciplinary Dialogues with Health. - Reet Hiiemäe [239]

Doctoral Thesis on the Use of Observational Documentary Film in Visual Anthropological Research. - Pille Runnel [241]

Book review

Assembling Therapeutics. - Reet Hiiemäe [244]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 81

History matters

Guest Editors:

Tõnno Jonuks

January 2021

ISSN 1406-0949

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Instead of Introduction: How Old Is Sacredness?

by

Tõnno Jonuks

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.81.introduction

Technology Creating a New Human: The Alchemical Roots of Transhumanist Ideas

by

Kurmo Konsa

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.81.konsa

From Nature Romanticism to Eco-Nationalism: The Development of the Concept of Estonians as a Forest Nation

by

Atko Remmel

Tõnno Jonuks

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.81.remmel_jonuks

Sustaining and Substituting the Sacred: Coin Trees in Britain and Ireland

by

Ceri Houlbrook

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.81.houlbrook

A Joke, Mockery, or Something More? The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster – an Invented Religion or a New Movement?

by

Siarhei A. Anoshka

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.81.anoshka

101

Buried Alive: The Phenomenon of Apparent Death in Estonian Tradition

by

Eda Kalmre

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.81.kalmre

121

Jizō in Action: The Role of Jizō Statues in Temple Atmosphere, Seen through the Eyes of Sendai Temple Abbots

by

Alīse Eishō Donnere

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.81.donnere

157

Legends of Places as Part of the Sustainable Development of Regions

by

Barbara Ivančič Kutin

Monika Kropej

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2021.81.ivancic_kropej

News in brief

Pavel Limerov Defended His Doctoral Dissertation. - Mare Kõiva [179]

Book review

Mission Possible: Online Book Presentation. - Anastasiya Fiadotava [181]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 80

Birthlore and childhood

Guest Editors:

Irina Sedakova & Nina Vlaskina

March 2020

ISSN 1406-0949

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Birthlore and Childhood in Archaic and Modern European Cultures: An Introduction

by

Irina Sedakova

Nina Vlaskina

Rituals of Social Legitimization in the Lithuanian Childbirth Customs System: Traditions and Innovations

by

Rasa Paukštytė-Šaknienė

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.80.paukstyte_sakniene

The Structure and Genesis of One Type of Magic Spell Against Children’s Insomnia among Slavic Peoples

by

Tatiana Agapkina

Andrei Toporkov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.80.agapkina_toporkov

Unlived Life: The Death and Funeral of a Child in Slavic Traditional Culture

by

Irina Sedakova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.80.sedakova

Child in the Natal Narratives of Modern Ukrainian Mothers: Folkloric Symbols and Frequent Motifs

by

Oksana Labashchuk

Halyna Derkach

Tetiana Reshetukha

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.80.ukraine

“How I Gave Birth” (and Why I Am Writing about It): Women’s Narratives of First Childbirth Experiences from Internet Publications

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Natalia Gramatchikova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.80.gramatchikova

125

The Birth of a Child as Experienced and Narrated in the 1990s Finland

by

Lena Marander-Eklund

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.80.marander_eklund

151

The Rite of Male Circumcision among the Muslim Population in the Western Balkans

by

Alexander Novik

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.80.novik

169

A Local Midwife or a Doctor? Two Systems of Knowledge in Birthing Practices of Russian Old Believers

by

Natalia Dushakova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.80.dushakova

191

Taking Hold of the Future: Active Childbirth Practices and Beliefs in Romania (in the Home Country and in Migration)

by

Adina Hulubaş

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.80.hulubas

215

“Coming into the World: From Spirits to the Spirit”. The First Childhood Museum in Romania

by

Anamaria Iuga

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.80.iuga

231

Jews in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation

by

Anastasia Kharlamova

Alexander Novik

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.80.kharlamova_novik

News in brief

Joint Estonian-Belarusian Webinar “Mission Possible V: Adaptations, Transformations, and Fundamental Aspects of Vernacular Culture”. - Anastasiya Fiadotava [247]

Book review

Slavic Arboretum in the Light of Ethnolinguistics. - Irina Sedakova [251]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 79

Migration and Diasporas

Guest Editors:

Leena Kurvet-Käosaar & Triinu Ojamaa

February 2020

ISSN 1406-0949

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Towards New Methodologies in Migration and Diaspora Studies: An Introduction

by

Leena Kurvet-Käosaar

Triinu Ojamaa

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.79.introduction

An Ethno-Cultural Portrait of a Diaspora in Central Russia: The Formation and Culture of the Eastern Udmurt

by

Eva Toulouze

Nikolai Anisimov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.79.toulouze_anisimov

Seto People in the Expedition Diaries and Literary Works of a Russian Émigré Leonid Zurov

by

Irina Belobrovtseva

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.79.belobrovtseva

Situating Oneself Within the Estonian Language and World Literature: Ivar Ivask’s Relational Ways of Self-Understanding

by

Aija Sakova

Marin Laak

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.79.sakova_laak

Literary Biographies Without a Fixed Linguistic Abode

by

Elina Mikkilä

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.79.mikkila

115

Graphic Aspects of Mobility: Folkloristic-Ethnological Drawings as a Starting Point for Discussing Mobility and Borders

by

Kari Korolainen

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.79.korolainen

137

German Migrants in Bulgaria and Their Social Networks

by

Tanya Matanova

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.79.matanova

157

Where the Structural Meets the Personal: Mother-In-Law Humor Between a Joke Cycle and Joking Relationships in Belarus

by

Anastasiya Fiadotava

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.79.fiadotava

183

Symbolic Capital as a Resource of Promotion of Provincial Cities: An Analysis of Place Branding Strategies of Ural Urban Destinations

by

Alexey Britvin

Irina Britvina

Liudmila Starostova

Marc Compte-Pujol

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.79.ural

203

“Still, I Can Hardly Believe It”: Reactions, Resources, and Religion in Conversations about Sexual Abuse of Children among Laestadians in Finland

by

Ulrika Wolf-Knuts

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.79.wolf_knuts

News in brief

News

Between Individual and Collective Trauma. - Aleksei Smirnov [219]

Doctoral Dissertation on the Negotiations over “Vedic” Tradition in Russia. - Kaarina Aitamurto [222]

Book review

Books

A Philosophical Inquiry of Trauma Studies. - Olga Bezzubova [226]

Romanian Everyday Life in the Uniting Europe. - Joanna Rękas [229]

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Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 78

Migration and Diasporas

Guest Editors:

Leena Kurvet-Käosaar & Triinu Ojamaa

January 2020

ISSN 1406-0949

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Conceptual Alignments and Debates in the Study of Mobility and Migration: An Introduction

by

Triinu Ojamaa

Leena Kurvet-Käosaar

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.78.introduction

The Kosovo Conflict and the Changing Migration Patterns of the Gorani Community: Continuities and Shifts

by

Ivaylo Markov

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.78.markov

From Mobility to “Exile”. Shifting Co-Presence: Narratives of Bulgarian-Syrian Families in Bulgaria

by

Desislava Pileva

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.78.pileva

Uncertainties of Transnational Belonging: Homeland Nationalism and Cultural Citizenship of Lithuanian Immigrants in the USA

by

Vytis Čiubrinskas

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.78.ciubrinskas

Emotional State and Inequality among Lithuanian Emigrants

by

Dainius Genys

Ilona Strumickienė

Ričardas Krikštolaitis

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.78.lithuanian

105

Estonian Diaspora in Sweden: An Analysis of the Collection “Life Destinies” at the Swedish Nordic Museum

by

Maija Runcis

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.78.runcis

119

Traces of Trauma in Estonian Women’s Life Narratives of World War II

by

Maarja Hollo

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.78.hollo

145

The Task of a Cultural Researcher: Telling the Story of Siberian Estonians

by

Anu Korb

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.78.korb

167

Deportation and the Crises of [Early Modern] Europe: A Brief Historical Introduction

by

Stephan Steiner

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.78.steiner

173

Through the Apulian Streets: The Liminal Space-Time of the Holy Week’s Processions

by

Vito Carrassi

DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2020.78.carrassi

Interview

Myths, Hashish, and Hindu Culture. Interview with Michael Witzel 197

Henri Zeigo

News in brief

The Thirteenth International Conference on Comparative Mythology: Discussions and Thoughts. - Marina Valentsova [203]

Book review

Books

Estonian Healing Words. - Ekaterina Anastasova [210]

How Punk is Related to Politics. - Aimar Ventsel [212]