Petja Kauppi, Author at Folklore Fellows

FFC 330

Petja Kauppi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:38:58 +0000

This book presents the first edition and translation of Ólafur Sveinsson's treatise on elves that makes its text accessible in the way how it was laid out by Ólafur himself. The text is accompanied by an analysis of its social, literary, and economic context that shows the rich contributions which Ólafur’s unique testimony can make to our understanding of the workings of pre-industrial folk belief in a sparsely settled North Atlantic landscape.

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FFN 60

Petja Kauppi — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:02:01 +0000

Editorial: "Whether we view the era of ideologies that are being struggled with today as mainly belonging to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries or to a period of five centuries, it is only ‘five minutes of fame’ in the scope of human history. Modernity should be engaged as the provincial phenomenon that it is, approaching it on equal footing with alternatives, rather than making modernity the measure of all things."

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FFC 328

Petja Kauppi — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:24:14 +0000

Researchers of vernacular traditions or folklore have a special entrance point into studying violence, as many forms of violence are based on traditions and are justified with a reference to tradition. The challenging point in understanding violence is that it is not always clear what counts as violence.

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FFN 59

Petja Kauppi — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:23:42 +0000

Download FFN 59 – Spring 2025 Contents Will ICH Replace Tradition? Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä 11th Folklore Fellows’ Summer School Interdisciplinarity and Involvement: Enduring and Emerging Sites of the Vernacular More a Lore than a Literature Jonathan Roper Biomimetic Figurations in Contemporary Biohacking Antti Lindfors Book Review: The God Perkūnas of the Ancient Lithuanians Daiva Vaitkevičienė […]

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FFC 284–286 (2024 edition)

Petja Kauppi — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:52:51 +0000

Hans-Jörg Uther's "The Types of International Folktales" presents an essential index of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther tale-type system, or ATU, which is one of the most widely recognized and enduring infrastructures developed in folklore research.

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FFN 58

Petja Kauppi — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:48:54 +0000

FFN 58: Changing of the guard at the Folklore Fellows' Network

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FFC 327

Petja Kauppi — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:01:36 +0000

Nijolė Laurinkienė's "The God Perkūnas of the Ancient Lithuanians" is the most thorough and extensive work on the Lithuanian thunder god to date. This book’s nineteen chapters follow the god’s Indo-European origins through the evidence in histories, place names, and diverse forms of folklore, as well as how these relate to archaeological evidence and aspects of material culture.

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FFC 296 & 297, 2nd Printing

Petja Kauppi — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:39:26 +0000

Clive Tolley Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic, Vol I The Kalevala Society Folklore Fellows’ Communications 296 First published 2009, reprinted with minor corrections and with additions 2023 Helsinki 2023 613 pages ISBN 978-952-9534-06-7 Available at the Tiedekirja bookstore, 58 € (The set of vols I & II, 70 €) Medieval Norse written sources, ranging […]

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FFN 57

Petja Kauppi — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:09:19 +0000

FFN 57: Welcome to the New Editor, Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä!

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FFC 326

Petja Kauppi — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:45:16 +0000

Francisco Vaz de Silva sets out to reveal the symbolic framework of wondertales as a genre. The study underlines the stability of symbolic patterns in tales across space and time, as well as the evolution of the texts in tune with their contexts.

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