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Research Team

tarkka_lotteLotte Tarkka, project leader (Professor, Folklore Studies, University of Helsinki): skills in Kalevala-meter poetry, Finnish and Karelian oral traditions, contextualizing methodologies for archive material, symbolic anthropology, intertextuality, oral genre studies, metapoetic strategies in poetic registers.

 

 

frogFrog, research coordinator (Docent, Folklore Studies, University of Helsinki): skills in Kalevala-meter poetry, early Germanic poetries, comparative mythology in long-term perspective, oral poetics, semiotics, retrospective methods.

 

 

karina_lukinKarina Lukin, researcher (PhD, Folklore Studies, University of Helsinki): skills in Tundra Nenets ethnography, folklore, and narrative and religious traditions, religious studies, historical and linguistic anthropology, Siberian studies, ethnographic field work.

 

 

Eila Stepanova 2014

Eila Stepanova, researcher (PhD, Folklore Studies, University of Helsinki): skills in Finnic lament poetry, Oral-Formulaic Theory; Register Theory, ethnography.

 

 

 

siikala_portraitAnna-Leena Siikala, academic consultant (Academician of Science, Professor Emerita, Folklore Studies, University of Helsinki): skills in Uralic mythologies, comparative mythology, comparative religion, oral poetries, ritual studies, narratology, belief traditions, Kalevala-meter poetry, mythic images, ethnic processes in Post-Soviet Russia, culture theory.