Publisher: Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum

Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore

Frequency: irregular and other / Country: Estonia

Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore (ISSN 1406-0957, e-version ISSN 1406-0949) is a peer-reviewed journal published three times a year by the Department of Folkloristics at the Estonian Literary Museum. Full texts of articles are published both in a printed version and electronically. Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore welcomes unpublished articles by scholars of any country on any aspect of cultural studies in the broadest sense, all genres of folklore and comparative religion and related fields, including articles on mythology, religion and tradition, paremiology, narratives, poetic folklore, ethnomusicology, archaeology, etc.

In Search of the Self: Reconciling the Past and the Present in Immigrants’ Experience

Author(s): Larisa Fialkova,Maria Yelenevskaya / Language(s): English

This book is a follow-up to our project devoted to personal narratives of ex-Soviets in Israel. Our original plan was to collect previously published articles dealing with immigration issues but differing from the main themes of our book Ex-Soviets in Israel: From Personal Narratives to a Group Portrait (Fialkova & Yelenevskaya 2007). The themes of immigrants in the city, attitude to law, immigrants’ literature and humor were touched upon but not developed in depth in that volume.They were researched in a number of papers written later (Fialkova &Yelenevskaya 2006, 2006a, 2011, 2012, Yelenevskaya & Fialkova 2006,2008) and discussed in our presentations at 11 scholarly conferences.However, when we re-read the articles we realized that the situation in the Russian-speaking community was so dynamic that studies conducted three-five years ago should be seriously revised and updated.

Mäetagused. Hüperajakiri

Frequency: irregular and other / Country: Estonia

Mäetagused. Hyperjournal (ISSN 1406-992X, e-version ISSN 1406-9938) is published three times a year (plus a special fourth issue each year) since September 1996 and is available in print and as an e-publication in Estonian with English summaries (http://www.folklore.ee/tagused). The free online issue is available for universities and research institutions all over the world. The journal is prereviewed by an international board, the board is elected for five years. Mäetagused publishes scholarly studies in folkloristics, comparative religious studies, cultural anthropology and related fields from international authors. In addition to the Estonian articles written by Estonian authors, the journal introduces translated articles by international authors written specifically for publishing in Mäetagused. The journal also includes translations of leading research articles with a purpose to expand Estonian terminology in the field. Mäetagused is the only interdisciplinary prereviewed journal in the Baltic States and in Estonian that interrelates folklore and religious studies as well as other cultural anthropological disciplines. Since 1996 the online version of the journal includes extensive video, audio and other illustrations. The journal is prereviewed and indexed in MLA International Bibliography, Ulrich’s, IVB, DOAJ, CEEOL.

Through the Ages I. Folklore as a Common Expression of Lingual, Figurative, Emotional and Mental Memory

Author(s): Mare Kõiva / Language(s): English

Written Cancer Narratives. An Ethnomedical Study of Cancer Patients’ Thoughts, Emotions and Experiences

Author(s): Piret Paal / Language(s): English

Above all, this work is about patients and their points of view. It concentrates on patients’ ‘voicings’, which are important in order to make the cancer experience understandable and ‘open’ in the current cultural and societal setting. When following this thesis one should bear in mind that it is the work of a folklorist who is specialised in illness narratives and traditional traits occurring in narrative representations. Particularly in the written narratives, the natural world and the glimpses of tradition become bound together with one general aim – to tackle the illness and mediate its meanings.