Narrating, Doing, Experiencing Nordic Folkloristic Perspectives

• Main Author: Palmenelt, Ulf (auth)
• Other Authors: Kaivola-Bregenhøj, Annikki (Editor), Klein, Barbro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Helsinki Finnish Literature Society / SKS 2006
• Series: Studia Fennica Folkloristica 16
• Subjects: True stories; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; experiences; memories: stories; intergenerational relations; conversation; miracle
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

How do people tell of experiences, things and events that mean a lot to them and are unforgettable? Eight Nordic folklorists here examine personal experience stories and the way they are narrated in an attempt to gain an understanding of the people behind them and to reveal how these people handle their history, their lives and their cultural memory. All the articles are based on interviews and narrator-researcher collaboration. The stories tell about birth, sickness and miraculous cures, intergenerational relations, war, and matters not normally talked about. The analyses complement one another and the work may be used as a university course book.