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A Folklorist in the Soviet Spotlight

2019

Abstract The article seeks to illuminate the ideologically motivated circumstances of Latvian folklore studies during the period of unconditional Soviet totalitarianism. With the strengthening of the Soviet occupation regime in Latvia in the late 1940s, many interwar folklorists became victims of ideologically motivated disdain and subsequent career limitation. ‘Bourgeois’ scholarship and the methods applied in folklore studies during the interwar period were denounced and recognised as harmful to the new Soviet order. The central part of the article presents a case study of one individual folklorist of the time, Anna Bērzkalne (1891–1956). Both increasing criticism of Bērzkalne’s folklore …

Cultural and Social Anthropology Studies in Latvia and Eastern Europe: Discussing Practices and Methods

2020

In the last academic year, two international scientific conferences were held in Riga, focusing on the anthropological dimension in the field of social sciences. Baltic International Academy (Riga, Latvia) in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria), the Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation), the University of Oradea (Oradea, Romania) and the International Festival of Visual Anthropology Mediating Camera (Moscow, Russian Federation) organised an international scientific conference Social and Political Anthropology: Modern Scientific Approaches to Research (Riga, 18–19…

‘Something’s Not Right in Silverhöjd’: Nordic Supernatural and Environmental and Species Justice in Jordskott

2022

In the Swedish/Finnish/British/Norwegian television series Jordskott (2015–17) child victims’ mysterious disappearances signal that ‘something’s not right’ in Silverhöjd, a Swedish town. Three detectives uncover a conflict between the locals who depend on a local industry and preternatural human-like but non-human forest creatures familiar from Nordic tradition and fairylore. Both humans and semi/non-humans are ambivalent, but what sets the latter apart is their implication in caring for nature, protecting it, and punishing those who harm it. We analyse this series’ instantiation of a folkloristic popular green criminology, based in the idea that popular discourses’ representations of crime…

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION. ANNA BĒRZKALNE<br>MEDNARODNO SODELOVANJE. ANNA BĒRZKALNE</br>

2011

Cooperation among professional folklore researchers is a considerable issue for the history of the discipline. In the 1920s and 1930s, the most noteworthy Latvian partner in the then existing international collaboration network was Anna Bērzkalne (1891–1956). She was a representative of the historic-geographical method in Latvian folkloristics. Anna Bērzkalne was very enthusiastic about providing Latvian folklore materials to researchers abroad. She in return also received support to her studies and research. *** Sodelovanje med poklicnimi raziskovalci folklore je pomembno vprasanje v zgodovini discipline. V 20. in 30. letih 20. stoletja je bila v Latviji v mednarodnih stikih najopaznejsa A…

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2021

On some relations betweenkoklesstyles and contexts in the twentieth century

2000

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss traditional and modern styles for playing the kokles (the Latvian variation of the Baltic psaltery or board zither). To answer questions about the nature of kokles styles today and about their relation to earlier rural traditions, musical events are viewed in their personal, social, and cultural contexts. A scheme for the correlation of different styles is offered, according to which symbolic, artistic, folkloric, and post-folkloric groupings may be distinguished.

Cultural nationalism of the interwar period: Latvian visual art and folklore

2020

Figueroles d'Alcalatén. Balls i costums

1999

Figueroles és una població de l'Alcalatén coneguda per una dansa tradicional emparentada amb les danses o dansades meridionals i els balls plans de les comarques septentrionals del País Valencià: el ball de l'Anguila, també conegut com el ball de Figueroles, una dansa que es va ballar per última vegada el dia de Sant Mateu de 1932 abans de la seua recuperació auspiciada pel treball investigador d'Amadeu Porcar, un dels autors d'aquest llibre, a l’any 1980. A més de l'Anguila, el patrimoni corèutic de Figueroles inclou la dansa del Prim, el ball de jota i el ball de plaça. A totes quatre manifestacions dediquen els autors el present estudi amb una petita descripció de la indumentària tradici…

Chlebem – słowem – bronią, czyli chłopscy bohaterowie zmagań o wolną Polskę. Janusz Gmitruk, "Ludowcy w walce o niepodległość", Warszawa: Muzeum Hist…

2020

El folklore en la zarzuela costumbrista de Vicente Peydró: una propuesta para Educación Secundaria

2019

EI folklore ha estado siempre presente en las obras de Ios grandes compositores. Así, por ejemplo, Vicente Peydró se sirvió del folklore andaluz para componer los temas PrinciPales de su dilogía zarzuelista más destacada: Las carceleras y Rejas y votos. No obstante, la presencia del folklore en el currículo de Educación Secundaria sigue siendo meramente testimonial. En el siguiente artículo se ha llevado a cabo una propuesta didáctica para el alumnado del 4' curso de la ESO de un instituto público de la ciudad de Valencia. El objetivo es que el alumnado ahonde en el conocimiento del folklore de nuestro país para que pueda entender el significado que el pueblo le confiere' De esta manera, lo…