by Petja Kauppi | Jan 18, 2021 | Article, FFN 54
Starting with a Finnish Corpus Kati Kallio Finnish Literature Society and University of Helsinki Eetu Mäkelä University of Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities Maciej Janicki University of Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities In this essay, we describe...
by Petja Kauppi | Jan 18, 2021 | Article, FFN 54
Timothy R. Tangherlini & Vwani Roychowdhury University of California, Berkeley and UCLA The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an explosion of storytelling—much of it framed as believable first-person accounts—across many media. A large number of these stories reflect...
by Folklore Fellows | Dec 4, 2019 | Article, FFN 53
Katherine Borland Recently, I have been exploring the significance of contradictory statements in oral personal narratives and what they might tell us about social identities on the one hand and about the limitations of our research methods on the other....
by Folklore Fellows | Dec 4, 2019 | Article, FFN 53
Charles L. Briggs Please join me on a whirlwind tour of the University of California’s Folklore Graduate Program. In 1957 William Bascom came to the Department of Anthropology. A specialist on African art, Bascom served as president of the American Folklore...
by Folklore Fellows | Dec 4, 2019 | Article, FFN 53
Coppelie Cocq “I found it on the internet.” I am convinced that I am not the only one who has received this answer when asking a student to specify the origin of her/his material. “The internet” is part of everyday life for most of us, to some extent and in...
