Rethinking Ethnology and Folkloristics.(Book Review)

From: Folklore | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Edited by Pille Runnel. Vanavaravedaja No. 6. Tartu: Taru Nefa Ruhm, 2001. 266 pp. 29.00 [euro] (pbk). ISSN 1406-0795. ISBN 9985-78-218-6

The "rethinking of ethnology and folkloristics" has never stopped since the folklorism debate of the 1950s. At a meeting in Jyvaskyla in 1969, etnologi was voted a worthy replacement for folk liv, and in 1970, a group of younger German scholars boldly took their Abschied vom Volksleben (Farewell to Folk Life). Yet with incredible resilience, folk life continues to haunt us, and sometimes seems to get in the way of neat and tidy answers to ...

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