European University Institute Library

Mapping the history of folklore studies, centres, borderlands and shared spaces, edited by Dace Bula and Sandis Laime

eng

Includes bibliographical references

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Mapping the history of folklore studies

bibliography

973517603

edited by Dace Bula and Sandis Laime

centres, borderlands and shared spaces

This collection of articles provides rich and diverse insights into the historical dynamics of folkloristic thought with its shifting geographies, shared spaces, centres and borderlands. By focusing on intellectual collaboration and sharing, the volume also reveals the limitations, barriers and boundaries inherent in scholarship and scholarly communities. Folklore scholars from Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, and the USA reflect upon a range of related questions, including: To what extent and in what sense can folklore studies be regarded as a shared field of knowledge? Which lines of authority have held it together and what forces have led to segmentation? How have the hierarchies of intellectual centres and peripheries shifted over time? Do national or regional styles of scholarly practice exist in folkloristics? The contributors here pay attention to individual personalities, the politics and economics of scholarship, and forms of communication as meaningful contexts for discussing the dynamics of folklore theory and methods. --, Provided by publisher