Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura - Böcker

Riddles are a journey into a fascinating world rich in delightful metaphors and ambiguity. This book is based on material drawn from all over the world and analyses both traditional true riddles and contemporary joking questions. It introduces the...

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Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors. This colorful ar...

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The recent fascination in Finnish folklore studies with popular thought and the values and emotions encoded in oral tradition began with the realisation that the vast collections of the Finnish folklore archives still have much to offer the modern...

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Finland celebrated its 85th year of independence in 2002. It is one of the thirteen countries of the world that have preserved their democracy uninterrupted since the First World War. Despite its modest origins and difficult wartime experiences, t...

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This is an exploration into how town dwellers experience their environment in a complicated way. As people in urban milieus relate themselves to the environment, this takes place on many levels, where especially the time level becomes problematic....

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Six articles in 'Changing Scenes' represent the ongoing reassessment of fin de siecle literature in Finnish research. The period was seen in earlier research as something of a national renaissance or golden age and interpreted in the light of its ...

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This work explores the quantitative and qualitative development of homicide in eastern Finland in the second half of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth. The area studied comprised northern Savo and northern Karelia in eas...

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What are the most popular names of the Ambo people in Namibia? Why do so many Ambos have Finnish first names? What do the African names of these people mean? Why is the namesake so important in Ambo culture? How did the long independence struggle ...

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Anu Koivunen analyses the historicity as well as the intertextuality and intermediality of film reception by focusing on a cycle of Finnish family melodrama and its key role in thinking about gender, sexuality, nation, and history. Koivunen argues...

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The effects of globalisation and the momentous changes to the political map of Europe have led to a world in which multiculturalism and ethnic differences have become issues of increasing importance. In Nordic countries, relationships between new ...

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This book presents some of the most recent research on Finnish and Estonian pronouns and other minimal forms of reference. The articles deal with features particular to the pronoun systems of Finnish languages, such as logophoricity and the use of...

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When studying social practices that are regarded as traditional, 'tradition' is usually seen as an element of meaning. Whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning generated by those who study tradition or those who are being studied? In both cases, parti...

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The central question deals with the westward interaction between Russia and Europe from a Russian perspective: How has the tradition of Russia's culture and history set the conditions for its developmental and political choices?

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How do people tell of experiences, things and events that mean a lot to them and are unforgettable? Eight Nordic folklorists here examine personal experience stories and the way they are narrated in an attempt to gain an understanding of the peopl...

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Modernisation has been a constant theme in Russian history at least since Peter the Great launched a series of initiatives aimed at closing the economic, technical and cultural gap between Russia and the more 'advanced' countries of Europe. All of...

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In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices. The articles in thi...

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Miksi valtioilla on lupa tappaa? Sotia on käyty historian kaikkina aikoina, mutta miten ihmiset ovat niihin suhtautuneet? Vaikka menneisyyden sodat saattavat vaikuttaa mielettömiltä, ovat historian varhaisimmatkin aseelliset konfliktit vaatineet p...

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Transnational Death brings together eleven cutting-edge articles from the emerging field of transnational death studies. The collection highlights European, Asian, North American, and Middle Eastern perspectives, and reflects on people's changing ...

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This volume analyses the societal legacy of Lutheranism in Finland by drawing on a multidisciplinary perspective from the social sciences and humanities. Involving researchers from a wide range of such fields has made it possible to provide fresh ...

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This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. The primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social practice. The case studies con...

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Keisarit ja kurtisaanit vie lukijan kiehtovalle aikamatkalle antiikin Roomaan. Teos sukeltaa yhteiskunnan tärkeimmän yhteisön, perheen, kulissien taakse. Perhesuhteilla oli Roomassa valtava sosiaalinen merkitys: keisarit korostivat perheensä asema...

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Suomen suuret nälkävuodet 1867-1868 olivat läntisen Euroopan viimeisin rauhanajan elintarvikekriisi. Vuonna 1867 hallat tuhosivat viljasadon, ja seuraavan talven ruokavarastot menetettiin. Kevääseen 1868 mennessä suomalaisista menehtyi lähes joka ...

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Responsibility and Language Practices in Place investigates 'responsibility' in and through language practices as inspired by the roots of the (English) word itself: the ability to respond, or mount a response to a situation at hand. It is thus a ...

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Länsimaisessa kulttuurissa ihminen on perinteisesti esitetty omalakisena ja itseriittoisena toimijana, vaikka yhteiskunta on aina rakentunut monilajisen vuorovaikutuksen varaan. Eläimet voidaan kuitenkin nähdä toimijoina, joilla on ollut ja on yhä...

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Millaisin menetelmin kulttuurin kuvallisuutta voidaan tutkia? Kuinka visuaaliset sisällöt kytkeytyvät ihmisen, kulttuurin ja yhteiskunnan parempaan ymmärtämiseen? Visuaalisesti havainnoitavissa oleva kulttuurinen todellisuus on liian monimuotoista...

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Kun kirjoitat - viran puolesta tai huvin vuoksi -, pyrit vuorovaikutukseen: tavoittelet lukijaa, olipa tämä aikalainen tai kaukana tulevaisuudessa. Muinoin kirjoitettiin kiveen tai papyrukselle, nyt paperille ja ruudulle, yhä kehittyvin välinein -...

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Miksi julkiselle kulttuuripolitiikalle on edelleen tarvetta? Teoksessa kulttuuripolitiikkaa avataan kapeasta institutionaalisesta lokerosta kohti monisyisempää arvojen kamppailua ja hallinnan pyrkimystä. Kirjassa esitetyt kulttuuripoliittiset kysy...

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Versification describes the marriage of language and poetic form through which poetry is produced. Formal principles, such as metre, alliteration, rhyme, or parallelism, take precedence over syntax and prosody, resulting in expressions becoming or...

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Turun romantiikan elinkaari oli lyhyt, mutta sitäkin kiihkeämpi. Yliopistoaktivismi, varhainen akateeminen joukkotoiminta ja katulevottomuudet olivat osa 1800-luvun alun ylioppilaselämää. Teos esittelee Keisarillisen Turun yliopiston opiskelijoide...

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