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Inari Sami folklore : stories from Aanaar / August V. Koskimies and Toivo I. Itkonen, revised by Lea Laitinen ; edited and translated by Tim Frandy.

Van Pelt Library GR201.I63 K6713 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Koskimies, Aukusti Valdemar, 1856-1929, author.
Itkonen, T. I. (Toivo Immanuel), 1891-1968, author.
Contributor:
Laitinen, Lea, editor.
Frandy, Tim, editor, translator.
Standardized Title:
Inarinlappalaista kansantietoutta. English
Language:
English
Finnish
Inari Sami
Subjects (All):
Folk literature, Sami--Finland--Inari (Lapin lääni).
Folk literature, Sami.
Inari Sami dialect.
Folk music.
Sami (European people).
Music.
Finland--Inari (Lapin lääni).
Folklore--Finland--Inari (Lapin lääni).
Folklore.
Sami (European people)--Finland--Inari (Lapin lääni)--Folklore.
Sami (European people)--Finland--Inari (Lapin lääni)--Music.
Folk music--Finland--Inari (Lapin lääni).
Inari Sami dialect--Texts.
Sami (European people)--Music.
Genre:
Folklore.
Texts.
Physical Description:
liii, 249 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2019]
Summary:
This anthology of folk tales, legends, joik-songs, proverbs, riddles, and omens represent the most comprehensive collection of Sámi oral tradition available in English to date. Collected in 1886 by A.V. Koskimies in the small arctic village of Aanaar (Inari), Finland, and later augmented by Toivo Itkonen and Lea Laitinen, it includes more than 150 stories and songs, and hundreds of proverbs, omens, and riddles, from nearly two dozen storytellers. It paints a picture of late nineteenth-century life in Aanaar, showing important changes occurring within the community, the hopes and fears of local people, and the complex web of social relations that existed both inside and outside the community.
Contents:
Songs
Animal tales
Fairy tales
Short tales
Humorous stories and anecdotes
Belief legends
Historical and regional legends
Stories about Cudit
Peeivih vualappa
Stories about the Skolts
Hunting stories
Personal experience narratives
Proverbs and figures of speech
Riddles
Omens and signs
Appendices.
Notes:
Originally published as Inarinlappalaista Kansantietoutta (Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 1978).
Translated from the Finnish and the Inari Sami.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780299319007
0299319008
OCLC:
1032290913

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