Juha Y. Pentikainen

Broschiertes Buch

Kalevala Mythology, Revised Edition

Beschreibung

"Pentik inen's exceptional interdisciplinary study will richlyreward those interested in the dynamics of artistic creation and culturalconstruction, ethnic emergence and political nationalism, and shamanistic beliefsystems." -- American Anthropologist ..". a splendidcontribution to the literature on folk epics... " -- The Scandinavian-AmericanBulletin The Kalevala, created during the 1830s and 1840s, isbased on authentic folklore collected and compiled by Elias Lonnrot. It was theKalevala that initiated the process leading to the foundation of Finnish identityduring the nineteenth century and was, therefore, one of the crucial factors in theformation of Finland as a new nation in the twentieth century.

Autor

Juha Y. Pentikainen, Professor of Comparative Religion at Helsinki University and Docent in Folkloristics and Comparative Religion at the University of Turku, has published numerous articles and more than ten books, including Cultural Minorities in Finland, and the Chicago Folklore Prize-winner Oral Repertoire and World View.Ritva Poom writes about Finnish and Estonian culture. Her translations of Finnish and Estonian literature and ethnography have appeared in Literary Review, Scandinavian Review, Drama Review, and Ethnologia Fennica. Her translation Fog Horses received an award from the Columbia University Translation Center.

Produktdetails

• Folklore Studies in Translation
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Revised Edition
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780253213525
• ISBN-10: 0253213525
• Artikelnr.: 21824937