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Kansanperinteenkeruu ja muistitiedon keruuhanke : se oli täyttä työtä, melko rankkaa mutta antoisaa. Unohtumattomia kokemuksia --
2013
Investing in indigenous multilingualism in the Arctic
2018
Abstract This article explores the dynamics between language and identity categories and the boundaries produced in a changing multilingual, indigenous context in the Arctic region of Finland. In this moment of transition, indigenous multilingualism has high stakes. It can be a resource for political and economic development but also for management and regimentation, open to winners and losers. Drawing on a longitudinal critical discourse ethnography of producing language and identity categories in the Finnish Arctic, I discuss three circulating discourses relevant for the ways in which indigenous identity boundaries are made to matter, namely strategic, aspirational and affective multiling…
Terävyyttä etnologiseen tutkimusprosessiin
2016
Kirja-arvio teoksesta Jouhki, Jukka & Tytti Steel (toim.) 2016: Etnologinen tulkinta ja analyysi. Kohti avoimempaa tutkimusprosessia. Helsinki: Ethnos ry. 431 sivua. nonPeerReviewed
A Culturally Sensitive Approach to Promoting Initial Literacy Development in Africa : Ongoing and Planned Research and Development at the University …
2017
A four-year research and development program at CAPOLSA (the Centre for the Promotion of Literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa) was inspired by widespread dissatisfaction with poor literacy outcomes of mass basic schooling in Zambia and sought to test the generalizability of a scientifically grounded, computer-mediated instructional resource developed in Finland, for effective intervention in an African society where different linguistic and educational conditions obtain. Specific challenges and opportunities posed by the local sociocultural context included the prevalence of multilingualism, the relatively transparent orthographies of local languages, and poor infrastructure of the public school …
Social networks : promoting Mexican popular cultures and building a participatory culture
2012
For over 30 years, the General Direction of Popular Cultures has been in charge of promoting, preserving, and disseminating the cultural diversity of Mexico, regarding indigenous and popular cultural practices. With the increasing popularization of Social Networks, it has become almost indispensable to join Social Networks in order to exist digitally, weather you are an individual, an institution or government. Taking this fact in consideration, in 2011 the Direction of Popular Cultures joined the most utilized social Networks in México: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, as a way to keep users updated about the activities and general information generated by the Direction. Departing form the p…
The enchanted islands : a comparison of mythological traditions from Ireland and Iceland
2008
"Hikikylpymiehet" ja "luonnonlapset" : suomalaisten ja intiaanien kanssakäyminen, sosiaalinen asema ja näkemykset toisistaan Pohjois-Amerikassa n. 18…
2017
This Master’s thesis of general history focuses on the social interaction between ethnic Finns and Native Americans in North America c. 1850—1950. The research aims to cover the nature of the interaction phenomenon in question as well as the social statuses of both groups and the attitudes expressed by them concerning the other. The analysis is based on biographical source material supported by documents, interviews and academic literature emphasizing both the Finns and the Native Americans who were in contact with each other during the aforementioned era. The analysis conducted in this thesis highlights that the majority of the interaction between Finns and Native Americans took place in t…
Terrains of struggle : the Finnish forest industry cluster and corporate community responsibility to Indigenous Peoples in Brazil
2015
The problem of pinning down the process of interpretation and analysis in ethnology
2017
Jouhki, Jukka & Steel, Tytti (eds.) 2016. Etnologinen tulkinta ja analyysi. Kohti avoimempaa tutkimusprosessia. (Ethnological interpretations and analysis. Towards a more open research process) Helsinki: Ethnos. 2016. 431 pp. ISBN 978-952-68509-0-0. ISSN 0357-511X.