Peoples' lives
Subtitle: songs and stories, magic and law
By: [editors: Art Leete, Ülo Valk]
Contributors: Symposium "Sacred and Profane in the Dialogue of Cultures" (2002 : Tartu, Estonia)
Series: Studies in folk culture -- v. 2; Studies in folk culture -- v. 2.
Publisher: Tartu University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Tartu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Folklore; Congresses; Research; Nentsy; Customary law; Estonian Folk songs; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Papers from the international symposium "Sacred and Profane in the Dialogue of Cultures : Ritual and Genetic Aspects", organized by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, and Department of Ethnology, University of Tartu, in April, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Eden and the Animal Languages : a comparison between the paradise narrative and AT 670 / Torsten Löfstedt; title: On Forest Nenets narrative genres / Eva Toulouze; title: Notes on customary law and worldview / Collin Hakkinen, Art Leete; title: The case of "A cat and a dog in a well" : motifs, folk inquiry and metafolkloristic interpretation (on Udmurtian folk beliefs) / Tatyana Minniyakhmetova; title: The heritage of Estonian folk singer Kadri Kukk from Karksi Parish in the light of feminist research : the ache and authority of one's gender. Questions and not only answers. Feminist folklore research and the interviews conducted by folklorists with Kadri Kukk from the point of view of an "armchair scientist" / Kristiina Ehin; title: Cultural differences of narrating life-stories / Merili Metsvahi.