Explorations in the violence of traditions and traditions of violence / edited by Pertti J. Anttonen in collaboration with Niina Hämäläinen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anttonen, Pertti, editor.

Hämäläinen, Niina, editor.

Folklore Fellows. Summer School 2021 : Online)

Series:

FF communications ; no. 328.

FF communications, 0014-5815 ; no. 328

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Folklore.

Violence.

Physical Description:

382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Helsinki : Kalevala Society Foundation, 2025.

Summary:

"Violence in culture and society is widely studied and hotly debated issue. Researchers of vernacular traditions or folklore have a special entrance point into studying violence, as many forms of violence are based on traditions and are justified with a reference to tradition. Some of these violent traditions are openly supported in their respective communities, but others call for research to explain how they survive when they are not explicitly and intentionally sustained or why they persist while being perceived as negative, oppressive, or degrading. The challenging point in understanding violence is that it is not always clear what counts as violence. he present volume explores a variety of issues in research into traditions of violence from all over the world and through the ages. The book contains an introduction and thirteen chapters with diverse and complementary perspectives, written by both younger and more established scholars in research into traditions"--publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction : When Tradition and Violence Become Linked / Pertti J. Anttonen

I. Humans and Other-than-Humans in Narrative Violence. Wildly Ours : Narrative Violence and Non-Violence Towards Wildlife / Sadhana Naithani

When Violence Moves across Species / Charles L. Briggs

Traditions of Violence and the Supernatural Procedural / Amelia Mathews-Pet

II. Violence in Oral-Derived Literature, Art and Drama. Heritage, Harassment, and the Epic Heroine : Articulations of Violence in the Kalevala's Aino Poem / Niina Hämäläinen & Lotte Tarkka

"Triumph of Good Over the Evil" : Violence Redefined in Masked Dance Dramas of India / Ayantika Chakraborty

The Violence of the Mask : From Greek Tragedy to the Avatar / Terry Gunnell

III. Socially Structuring Conflicts from Country to Cosmos. Violent Displays/Mediatised Violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh War / Nona Shahnazarian

Contexts of Violence : Revisiting Aztec Human Sacrifice Rituals / Malay Bera

The Duality of Creation and Destruction : Violent Myths as Transitions in the Cosmological Timeline of Old Norse Mythology / Jesse Barber

Charivari at Shrovetide in Ireland : Carnivalesque Responses to Modernity / Fionnán Mac Gabhann

IV. Violence of People and Culture on the Move. The Waiting Women of Rajasthan : Violence and Subversion in Songs and Tales of Separation / Surabhi Jiwrajka Mawandia

Violence and Everyday Interactions : Estonian Return Migrants' Narratives of Difference and Sameness / Pihla Maria Siim

Narratives and Northern Colonialities : Genealogies of Sámi Folklore Collection in Norway / Stein R. Mathisen.

Notes:

"This volume draws its materials from the 10th Folklore Fellows' Summer School, organized at the School of Humanities in the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) in Joensuu, Finland on June 7-18, 2021... Due to the then-ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Summer School was held as an online event. The chapters in this volume have been selected from among the lectures and papers that were presented and discussed at the Summer School event and in its workshops. The authors' contributions have been developed and refined since that time to form the present book"--page [11].

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9529534159

9789529534159

OCLC:

1572075282