Visions and traditions
Subtitle: knowledge production and tradition archives
By: Lauri Harvilahti [and five others] (eds.).
Series: FF communications -- no. 315; FF communications -- no. 315.
Publisher: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9789514111266
Subjects: Folklore archives; Ethnological museums and collections; Archives; Technological innovations
Description: "This volume contains texts that in various ways discuss the political, methodological and ethical aspects of how tradition archives have been - and are - involved in the production of knowledge. The folklore studies of the 19th century, in the various forms they were performed, were concerned with not only imagining, but also sensing and experiencing the people. the early 20th century invention of the tradition archive, followed by the formations of folklore studies and ethnology as university disciplines, carried out fortifications, expansions and contestations as to who the people really were and how the people were to be seen and felt and experienced, and who had the authority to show us the people. The disciplinary rumbles and departures from the late 1960s gave profound insights in how folkloristics and ethnology had contributed to the creation and strengthening of political identities, and left many folklorists and ethnologists skeptical about ever getting involved in identity politics again. The agenda of Herder, to assist the people in seeing and feeling and experiencing itself, for many became a shameful agenda. They sought refuge in purer forms of science, be it cultural history, linguistics or phenomenology. They would say: 'to make the people visible is not our job. Let us leave them to it. But we will observe from safe distance.' In the wake of the digital revolution and the new and powerful information technologies, people (not the people this time, but just people) are exercising great new abilities to make themselves seen and felt and experienced. Do people need tradition archives or folklorists in these endeavors? The editors of this volume suspect the tradition archives have qualities that are strongly in demand right now, and that folklorists are needed both as facilitators and for critical reflection"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Tradition archives as memory institutions in the past and in the future: foreword  -- Clíona O'Carroll; title: The contested identity of folklore archives: folkloristics and archival studies at a crossroads  -- Maryna Chernyavska; title: Co-production of ethnographic knowledge in Estonia during the 1920s and 1930s  -- Marleen Metslaid; title: From personal letters to scientific knowledge: the creation of archived records in a tradition archive  -- Susanne Nylund Skog; title: Changing practices of folk song collection manifested in the estonian Kodavere regilaul corpus  -- Liina Saarlo; title: Capturing the Christmas goat: the collection of folk customs in three questionnaires in the early twentieth century  -- Åmund Norum Resløkken; title: The position of folk belief in Estonian folkloristics during the Soviet era  -- Ave Goršič; title: Dispersion, disorder and diversification: paradigm shift at the Institute for Dialect and Folklore Research in Uppsala  -- Agneta Lilja; title: High culture in the tradition archive: Swedish jazz history as a tradition archive topic  -- Alf Arvidsson; title: Individual aims, public purposes: creation of and access to tradition archives and vernacular publications in Finland and Ireland  -- Kelly Fitzgerald & Niina Hämäläinen; title: Visions, traditions and folklore collections: first steps of the Folklore Archives of the Finnish Literature Society  -- Lauri Harvilahti; title: Culture as political argument: collection policies and the production of knowledge by Swiss Volkskunde scholars  -- Konrad J. Kuhn; title: New perspectives on archival shortcomings: a note on self-perception, history and methodology within folkloristics, ethnology and cultural studies  -- Eldar Heide; title: 'Who told that story?' Archiving supernatural encounter narratives and the voices of the documents  -- Laura Jiga Iliescu; title: Participatory practices and tradition archives  -- Sanita Reinsone; title: Legacy folklore collections and the use of thesauri  -- Catherina Ryan & Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh; title: History in the making: the ethics and politics of net publishing  -- Fredrik Skott; title: Taking it slow, standing our ground, and apprehending the nature of 'talk': audio archives and the digital goldrush  -- Clíona O'Carroll; title: Principles for a future tradition archive: a foreseen by Norwegian ethnological research -- Audun Kjus.