Mapping the history of folklore studies :: centres, borderlands and shared spaces /

This collection of articles provides rich and diverse insights into the historical dynamics of folkloristic thought with its shifting geographies, shared spaces, centres and borderlands. By focusing on intellectual collaboration and sharing, the volume also reveals the limitations, barriers and boun...

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Other Authors: Bula, Dace (Editor), Laime, Sandis, 1982- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:This collection of articles provides rich and diverse insights into the historical dynamics of folkloristic thought with its shifting geographies, shared spaces, centres and borderlands. By focusing on intellectual collaboration and sharing, the volume also reveals the limitations, barriers and boundaries inherent in scholarship and scholarly communities. Folklore scholars from Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, and the USA reflect upon a range of related questions, including: To what extent and in what sense can folklore studies be regarded as a shared field of knowledge? W.
Item Description:This book "results from the conference organized by the Archives of Latvian Folklore to commemorate the approach of its 90th anniversary. Held in Riga [Latvia] on October 19-24, 2014, the event gathered together folklore scholars from Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, the USA and Latvia."--Page ix
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 376 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781443892674
144389267X

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