| title: | Creation, transmission and interpretation of folklore: process and institutions. |
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| reg no: | SF0032470s03 |
| project type: | targeted financing |
| subject: |
6. Humanities |
| status: | accepted |
| institution: | Estonian Literary Museum |
| head of project: | Aado Lintrop |
| duration: | 01.01.2003 - 31.12.2007 |
| description: | Folklore circulation is an integrated process and needs researching in its wholeness. By that very reason our studies within the research topic concentrate on the folklore communication and the participant agents engaged in it. Research activities are carried out in six subsections: 1. Baltic-Finnic Kalevala metre folk song (regilaul) in the past and at the present day. The objects of study include development and changes in regilaul, its content and function, producing techniques, poetic structure and language, variation and regional differences, singers¿ world view and attitude towards life. 2. Locality related folklore in transition, its regional peculiarities and functions, reflections of ecological relationships between landscape and human activities in folklore. Studies are based on locality bounded narrative plots, tradition accounts and toponyms in selected regions of Estonia, which are compared with folkloric data in neighbouring areas. 3. Contemporary legend in text, context and process. Studies concentrate on the interpretation of reality based legends in contemporary Estonian folklore and media. 4. Estonian settlements in Russia: folklore and its bearers. The objects of study include various Estonian communities in Russian Federation and re-migrant groups from Estonian settlements, mutual relationships between different ethnic groups, between individual and community as well as researcher and the groups under scrutiny. 5. Ritual institutions of the religious tradition in multiethnic society. Both comparative studies of ritual institutions and studies of one particular popular religion (Votian) are carried out. 6. The Estonian Folklore Archives in the history of Estonian folklore studies and its role as a national folklore archive of today. The development of the institution and its present day status is observed in the context of Estonian and international folkloristics. |
| project group | ||||
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Mall Hiiemäe | Estonian Literary Museum | vanemteadur | |
| 2. | Andreas Kalkun | Estonian Literary Museum | magistrant | |
| 3. | Eda Kalmre | Estonian Literary Museum | teadur | |
| 4. | Anu Korb | Estonian Literary Museum | teadur | |
| 5. | Kanni Labi | Estonian Literary Museum | doktorant | |
| 6. | Aado Lintrop | Estonian Literary Museum | vanemteadur | |
| 7. | Sirle Lorvi | Estonian Literary Museum | magistrant | |
| 8. | Janika Oras | Estonian Literary Museum | teadur | |
| 9. | Tuuli Otsus | Estonian Literary Museum | assistent | |
| 10. | Taisto-Kalevi Raudalainen | Estonian Literary Museum | doktorant | |
| 11. | Mari-Ann Remmel | Estonian Literary Museum | teadur | |
| 12. | Liina Saarlo | Estonian Literary Museum | teadur | |
| 13. | Mari Sarv | Estonian Literary Museum | teadur | |
| 14. | Einar Sinijärv | Estonian Literary Museum | videotehnik | |
| 15. | Jaan Tamm | Estonian Literary Museum | heliinsener | |
| 16. | Kadri Tamm | Estonian Literary Museum | arhivaar | |
| 17. | Indrek Tenno | Estonian Literary Museum | assistent | |
| 18. | Astrid Tuisk | Estonian Literary Museum | assistent | |
| 19. | Ergo-Hart Västrik | Estonian Literary Museum | arhiivijuhataja | |