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ETHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ

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Publisher Summary This chapter presents ethnological research and teaching at the University of Jyvaskyla. The center of the administrative district of Central Finland, Jyvaskyla, is located in the center of the population of Finland, somewhat north of the place where three large water routes empty into the northern end of Finland's longest lake, Paijanne. Higher Finnish-speaking culture was now even officially acknowledged, which, among other things, led to the situation in which one of the main strongholds of the new culture received its location in Jyvaskyla, which from time to time competed successfully with the capital city for the position of the Finnish-speaking cultural center. In 1858, Finland's first Finnish-language secondary school was founded in Jyvaskyla. In 1863, Finland's first college for elementary school teachers was founded and first Finnish-language college preparatory girls' school a year later. In the year 1863, the Society for the Advancement of Public Education, which has a significant place in the cultural history of Finland, was founded in Jyvaskyla. Although many of the studies of the Ethnological Institute of the University of Jyvaskyla fall outside the scope of normal ethnology such as the lake study in which the starting point is an element of nature rather than that of culture, they still have the rationality that ethnology can outline a picture of the present by experimenting from all aspects.