This volume analyses the societal legacy of Lutheranism in Finland by drawing on a multidisciplin...

The Soviet Union was not renowned for its fashionable clothing. However, after the World War II t...

This book presents current discussions on the concept of genre. It introduces innovative, multidi...

Talk in interaction - Comparative dimensions is a collection of current conversation analytical w...

Natural disasters have long been a neglected subject in the study of history. At most they have b...

The recent fascination in Finnish folklore studies with popular thought and the values and emotio...

Riddles are a journey into a fascinating world rich in delightful metaphors and ambiguity. This b...

Versification describes the marriage of language and poetic form through which poetry is produced...

The arrival of the Reformation was the decisive impetus for literary development in Finland. The ...

Finland celebrated its 85th year of independence in 2002. It is one of the thirteen countries of ...

This book deals with 20th century resettlements in the western areas of the former USSR, in parti...

Between 1935 and 1970 the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann), under-funded...

This collection of articles addresses the narrative construction of places, landscapes and their ...

Six articles in Changing scenes represent the ongoing reassessment of fin de siècle literature in...

Identities in Practice draws a nuanced picture of how the experience of migration affects the pro...

Finland-Swedish writer Monika Fagerholm is one of the most important contemporary Nordic authors;...

A new interdisciplinary interest has risen to study interconnections between oral tradition and b...

The West has always been a resource for the Finns. Scholars, artists and other professionals have...

More than half a million Swedes - one in twenty - is of Finnish descent. This book explores Finni...

This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium ...

Mythic discourses in the present day show how vernacular heritage continues to function and be va...

Films are essential to national imagination and promotional publicity markets 'domestic films' no...

This volume is intended as a reader for students and scholars working in the field of grammar and...

Names in Focus delves deep into the vast field of Finnish onomastics, covering place names, perso...

White field, black seeds - who can sow? Although the riddle from which this these words are taken...

This work explores the quantitative and qualitative development of homicide in eastern Finland in...

Book culture has emerged as an extremely dynamic and border-crossing field of research, internati...

Modernisation has been a constant theme in Russian history at least since Peter the Great launche...

Society is never just a localized aggregate of people but exists by virtue of its members' narrat...

Personal Agency at the Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720 provides fresh insights into the state-...

How do people tell of experiences, things and events that mean a lot to them and are unforgettabl...

Literary Helsinki: a city of leisure and light, divided along the fault lines of gender, class an...

Were there Vikings in Finland? Fibula, Fabula, Fact - The Viking Age in Finland is intended to pr...

Since its emergence along with Western nationalism, historical fiction has been one of the key fo...

In present-day Africa chiefs interact fluently with modern states, international organizations, a...

Democracy is today a concept that is overwhelmingly positively evaluated almost everywhere. A lot...

The collection, first one ever on Aino Kallas in English, highlights her significance to the arti...

In the mid-19th century, letters to newspapers in Finland began to condemn a practice known as ho...

Marja-Liisa Vartio (1924-1966) is considered one of the foremost innovators of consciousness repr...

During the First World War, conflicts between the people's sacrifices and their political partici...

Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden presents new comparative perspectives on transnatio...

Dwelling in Political Landscapes contributes to the anthropology of landscape and the field of po...

The effects of globalization and the momentous changes to the political map of Europe have led to...

In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oc...

This volume considers the linguistic borders between a language and a dialect as well as the admi...

The book sheds light on the experiences of immigrants in different parts of the world and other i...

This book studies the 'grey area' of the success story of rural lending libraries in the Nordic c...

What are the most popular names of the Ambo people in Namibia? Why do so many Ambos have Finnish ...