title: Folklore: traditsion, identity and globalization
reg no: SF0032472s03
project type: targeted financing
subject: 6. Humanities
status: accepted
institution: Estonian Literary Museum
head of project: Mare Kõiva
duration: 01.01.2003 - 31.12.2007
description: Research teams of the Dep. of Folkloristics will continue the previous line of interdisciplinary research, treating folkloristic traditional material (the language and rhetoric means of heritage texts, fictional and non-fictional narratives, folk belief, traditions and rituals) with different methodological methods. Research teams have had in the past decade a strong bias towards using the research methods of linguistics (incl. cognitivistics), cultural and social anthropology, psychology, sociology, religion history, philosophy, etc.
Topics in focus include the processes and changes of globalisation as well as its opponents and the forming of opposing, local and group heritage. Intense research into genre, structure and typology will be continued. Scripts, schemas, quals, formal and informal networks in heritage will find treatment. The development of the theory of rhetorics and phraseology is a key interest. As acute topics of the day, migration, integration and conflict as expressed in narratives and belief accounts as well as the reflection of mental models - categorisation and stereotypisation ¿ are observed in heritage material. The relations between fiction and reality and the mechanisms in oral and written heritage, cross-cultural communication and changes in recent decades are highlighted. Applicational research will focus on heritage historiography and the problems of integrating and of automated text search, etc. in the case of big text corpora.

project group
no name institution position  
1.Madis ArukaskEstonian Literary Museumteadur 
2.Anneli BaranEstonian Literary Museumteadur 
3.Reet HiiemäeEstonian Literary Museumteadur 
4.Anne HussarEstonian Literary Museumtoimetaja 
5.Tõnno JonuksEstonian Literary Museum 
6.Anne KaaberEstonian Literary Museumassistent 
7.Salle KajakEstonian Literary Museumprojektitäitja 
8.Mare KaldaEstonian Literary Museumteadur 
9.Katre KikasEstonian Literary Museumassistent 
10.Natalja KolegovaEstonian Literary Museumprojektitäitja 
11.Arvo KrikmannEstonian Literary Museumvanteadur 
12.Luule KrikmannEstonian Literary Museumtoimetaja 
13.Alari KruusmaaEstonian Literary Museumprogrammeerija 
14.Andres KuperjanovEstonian Literary Museumtoim. 
15.Maris KuperjanovEstonian Literary Museumassistent 
16.Nikolai KuznetsovEstonian Literary Museumteadur 
17.Mare KõivaEstonian Literary Museumvanteadur 
18.Eva-Kait KärblaneEstonian Literary Museumassistent 
19.Kairika KärsnaEstonian Literary Museumassistent 
20.Liisi LainesteEstonian Literary Museumassistent 
21.Kaur MägiEstonian Literary Museumteadur 
22.Harri William MürkEstonian Literary Museumtõlk-uurija 
23.Karin Maria RooleidEstonian Literary Museumteadur 
24.Kristi SalveEstonian Literary Museumvanteadur 
25.Rein SaukasEstonian Literary Museumteadur 
26.Kait TammEstonian Literary Museumtõlk 
27.Laas ToomEstonian Literary Museumprogrammeerija 
28.Aimar VentselEstonian Literary Museumvanemteadur 
29.Liisa VesikEstonian Literary Museumassistent 
30.Piret VoolaidEstonian Literary Museumassistent 
31.Asta ÕimEstonian Literary Museumvanteadur 
32.Katre ÕimEstonian Literary Museumteadur