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The Academic Folklore Society has been awarding annual prizes in folkloristics since 2011. On May 25, 2017, this year's prize was given to Reet Hiiemäe.
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Olli (Olga Ottilie) Kõiva (85), Tiiu Salasoo (85), Mall Hiiemäe (80), Luule Krikmann (80), Kristi Salve (75), Igor Tõnurist (70), Rein Saukas (70), Janīna Kursīte (65), Merike Kiipus (60), Vilve Asmer (60), Ülo Valk (55), Mari Sarv (45), Andreas Kalkun (40)
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Ruth Mirov (90), Heino Räim (85), Edgar Saar (80), Anne Hussar (75), Asta Õim (75), Ülo Siimets (70), Kazuto Matsumura (65), Triinu Ojamaa (65), Andres Kuperjanov (60), Krista Aru (60), Eda Kalmre (60), Mall Leman (55), Peter Pomozi (55), Karin Maria Rooleid (55), Janika Kronberg (55), Kärt Summatavet (55), Janika Oras (55), Anzori Barkalaja (50), Jaan Tamm (50), Astrid Tuisk (50), Liisi Laineste (40).
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The article analyzes the events which took place in a small Karelian town of Kondopoga in 2006 and are known as the first ethnic pogrom in the post-Soviet Russia. The town’s name became entrenched in the Russian language as a symbol of intolerance towards Caucasian nations. The analysis of today’s ethnic relations has been conducted on the basis of the press and internet forums from the perspective of an anthropologist of culture. With the example of the history and contemporary life of a small Karelian town, the author described the process of the local identity of its inhabitants being replaced by the ethnic identity (Kondopoga --- a Russian town) and analyzes the causes of the process. He shows, among others, how a clash of what is regional with the ethnically “foreign” leads to ideological justification for racist ideas, which in the official idiom of the authorities are interpreted as “ethnic conflicts”, “natural” in a multi-ethnic state, such as Russia.
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The article deals with the situation which arose after the democratic changes in the community of Romanian Old Believers (i.e. Lipowanie), where apart from traditional organizations a whole range of lay institutions also became active. In effect, the process of the revival of this ethnic minority is two-directional. The competition between new, nationalistically-minded Old Believers and traditional religious leaders results in the US --- THEM opposition being manifested as juxtapositions of the concepts of sin and piety, education and old dogmas, the literary variety of Russian and the dialect of Lipowanie etc.The new economic and social situation results in closer relations between the religious and secular culture of Lipowanie. At the same time, the traditional mechanisms upholding the religious culture, of which the most significant one is migration, allows for the emergence of new places inhabited by US: Old Believers in the united Europe.
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The paper examines specific discursive realizations of “folk identities” in a north Dalmatian ethnographic account from the end of the nineteenth century in the context of early South Slavic institutional-ethnographic practice. Texts such as these were produced as part of academic programmes involving the production of local and regional ethnographies by “literates from the people” in response to standardized elaborate questionnaires. Adopting a pragmatic/discourse-analytic perspective, our analysis deals with a number of relevant fragments and indicated those aspects of linguistic/textual discourse that are significant for constructing group identities as “us--our” vs. “them--of the other”. The analysis reveals the different levels and processes of discursive identity formation that emerge from the text, and suggests that systematic attention to such processes is indispensable if a reliable historical pragmatics of “ethnographic reality”, including the notion of “identities”, is hoped for.
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The mentality it is important determinant of the economic, political, cultural development of country. Study of its main components will provide answers to the questions: «Who are the Ukrainians, and what does they want?»
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The content of the strategic partnership relations between Azerbaijan and Bulgaria and the political, economic, cultural and scientific activities and suggestions for further cooperation are analyzed in the article. Based on the studies, as a member of the European Union, Bulgaria`s friendly relations with Azerbaijan, as well as joint participation in many projects in which Azerbaijan is one of the key partners of the Southern Gas Corridor, have involved in research. The convergence among different areas has played a major role in strengthening the positions of both countries and has identified directions for future joint cooperation.
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The article is devoted to the study of the institution of civil society. The article analyzes the role of the civil society institution and provides a broad analysis of this institution in Europe and Azerbaijan.In modern reality, the “rule of law” and “civil society” are not only integral parts of a single whole, but also determine mutual development. The interaction of the “rule of law” and “civil society” occurs in accordance with the action of the universal philosophical category of “content and form”. In this case, the rule of law acts as a “form”, an external shell, within which civil society exists as a “content”, internal content.The concept of “civil society” is as old as the concept of “state”. For more than two millennia, these two phenomena of objective reality exist and interact. All this time scientists who sometimes put forward contradictory theories about their origin and existence have studied them.Also, in the article, based on a comparative political and legal analysis, the role of state bodies in the development of civil society is investigated. Analyzing the formation of the ideas of civil society in Europe and Azerbaijan, it concludes that civil society, as an ideal type is the differentiation of state and public life, the differentiation of general and private interest, the differentiation of law, religion, morality and individual morality. The problems of differentiation of public, state and private life actualizes the problems of necessary (or sufficient) consolidation by the state, which does not abolish public, corporate, individual freedoms and options for public consolidation.
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In the nineteenth century in Azerbaijan literature new intellectual atmosphere was emerged. The emergence of new creative literary forces reflected in itself the synthesis of traditional Islamic and contemporary Russian-European culture as a social and cultural phenomenon. Azerbaijani culture is a unique culture that combines cultures of Caucasian peoples, Turkic-Muslim peoples, European peoples, and has emerged at the junction of the related religions and ideologies of great civilizations like the East and the West, small and numerous nations of the world. That is, "Caucasian, Russian, European, and Persian cultural values are united in Azerbaijani culture" (Dashdamirov 1996: 11). The complex approach, logical-historicism, the principles of comparative approach, systematic analysis methods constitute theoretical-methodological basis of the article. The author has referred to the works of European, French, Russian and Azerbaijani literary scholars while working on the research.
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The article examines the attitudes towards wolves reflected in Estonian folklore and their etiological and religious motifs: the emergence of wolves, wolf incantations, wolves’ food from heaven / from the ruler, pieces of clouds, and taboo names of wolves as expressions of mythological and religious relations. The number of grey wolves (Canis lupus), whose habitat once covered the entire Northern Eurasia including India, Japan, and Arabian Peninsula, has declined in most of central and southern North America, as well as almost all of Western Europe, and they are no longer known in Scandinavia, India, the United Kingdom, and Japan. The article demonstrates the parallels between Slavic and Finno-Ugric traditions.
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Since time immemorial, humans have lived in a mutual relationship with animals, and have, indeed, been dependent on them, that is, their help with domestic work, protection, the food and clothing they provide. The close link between animals and humans throughout history has been reflected in various forms of expressive culture such as ritual, dance, religious practices, art, and so forth, as well as in material culture and other everyday practices. Folklore around the world also reflects the close interrelation between humans and animals in various ways. In cosmogonic myths, animals are sometimes ascribed the role of the creators of the universe; in tales of magic they often figure as supernatural helpers to heroes and heroines on their journey towards a happy ending; they can mimic and mock human characters in animal tales; animals are sometimes addressed with requests in incantations, etc. This issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore therefore features seven papers that were presented at the BNN conference in Ragusa. They approach the topic of human-animal relationships from very different perspectives and angles, and within various genres of folklore.
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At the beginning of September, the Estonian Literary Museum held the 9th annual conference of the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies (CEES) under the heading “Perception and Performativity in Arts and Culture in the Age of Technological Change”. During the conference we had a great chance to listen to a presentation by a famous cultural analyst Mieke Bal, who is also well-known for her visual artistic approaches. Mieke Bal works at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and gives lectures all around the world. Her interventions in visual art have been influential.
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