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dc.contributor.authorAnttonen, Pertti J.
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-31 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-02 19:51:21
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:58:34Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:58:34Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier617196
dc.identifierOCN: 1030816751en_US
dc.identifier.issn1235-1946
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32113
dc.description.abstract"In their study of social practices deemed traditional, scholars tend to use the concept and idea of tradition as an element of meaning in the practices under investigation. But just whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning generated by those who study tradition or those whose traditions are being studied? In both cases, particular criteria for traditionality are employed, whether these are explicated or not. Individuals and groups will no doubt continue to uphold their traditional practices or refer to their practices as traditional. While they are in no way obliged to explicate in analytical terms their criteria for traditionality, the same cannot be said for those who make the study of traditions their profession. In scholarly analysis, traditions need to be explained instead of used as explanations for apparent repetitions and replications or symbolic linking in social practice, values, history, and heritage politics. This book takes a closer look at ‘tradition’ and ‘folklore’ in order to conceptualize them within discourses on modernity and modernism. The first section discusses ‘modern’ and ‘traditional’ as modern concepts and the study of folklore as a modern trajectory. The underlying tenet here is that non-modernity cannot be represented without modern mediation, which therefore makes the representations of non-modernity epistemologically modern. The second section focuses on the nation-state of Finland and the nationalistic use of folk traditions in the discursive production of Finnish modernity and its Others. The insights are applicable worldwide in discussions on cultural representation. "
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudia Fennica Folkloristica
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of arten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6P Styles (P)::6PD Postmodernismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFN Nationalismen_US
dc.subject.otherpostmodernism
dc.subject.otherpostmodern
dc.subject.othernational identity
dc.subject.otherfolkloristics
dc.subject.othermodern
dc.subject.othertradition
dc.subject.otherFinland
dc.subject.otherFinnish language
dc.subject.otherFinns
dc.titleTradition through Modernity: Postmodernism and the Nation-State in Folklore Scholarship
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21435/sff.15
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy51db0f72-616d-4d86-b847-ade19380e08f
oapen.relation.isFundedByf2ba3da1-e4a8-41c9-9a78-bf7b19984191
oapen.relation.isbn9789522228147;9789522228154
oapen.series.number15
oapen.pages215
oapen.place.publicationHelsinki
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Finland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland; Finnish language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language; Finns - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finns; Folklore - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore; Modernity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernity; Nationalism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism
oapen.identifier.ocn1030816751


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