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Second edition of Verzeichnis der altbömischen Exempel

Petja Kauppi — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:00:17 +0000

It is thanks to folklorist Jan Luffer and medievalist Kamil Boldan that an international edition of the Czech exempla index has finally been realized. The latter made contacts with Dvorák as a young scholar during his research into a manuscript in the Czech national library, Historiae variae moralisatae, written in the end of the fourteenth century. The 230 exempla texts there were not included in the first edition but were incorporated into the present edition by Dvorák and Boldan in collaboration, a work that was completed by Boldan after Dvorák’s death.

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Historical Oral Poems and Digital Humanities

Petja Kauppi — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:53:26 +0000

In this essay, we describe early experiments in a computational folkloristics project FILTER aimed at studying formulaic intertextuality, thematic networks and poetic variation across regional cultures of Finnic oral poetry.

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Covid Conspiracies

Petja Kauppi — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:37:02 +0000

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 aspects of both rumor (which can be seen as a hyperactive transmission state of legend) and of conspiracy theory (Rosnow and Fine 1976; Tangherlini 1990; Fine et al. 2005). If we conceptualize folklore at least in part as the informal circulation of cultural expressive forms on and across social networks, thereby incorporating both the performance aspects of folklore and its dependence on social interactions embedded both in time and space, it should be of little surprise that the current situation has engendered a great deal of storytelling.

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The Corona Cocoon

Petja Kauppi — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:25:47 +0000

From the perspective of folklore, this is a fascinating time. New types of performance, customs and meaning-making are developing all around us and being negotiated in countless networks simultaneously. What will happen when we break from the Corona cocoon remains an open question: there is a dream of a return to the way things were, yet our world is moving through a metamorphosis that makes some type of change inevitable. In tandem with the world entering a period of transformation, FF Communications and FF Network have been gestating in a cocoon of their own.

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