{"title":"The Connection of Viena Karelian Ritual Specialists to Communicative and Origin Incantations","authors":"Tuukka Karlsson","doi":"10.1080/0015587X.2022.2064058","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Researchers in the field of Kalevala-metric poetry have regularly connected types of incantations called communicative and origin incantations with Finno-Karelian ritual specialists known as the tietäjät. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with this view, the assumption has never been empirically tested. This article reports a methodological experiment aimed at investigating the connection between ritual specialists and the two incantation types, based on an index of users of incantations from Viena Karelia. The analysis shows that a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods facilitates empirical investigation of the phenomenon. The results of the analysis give some empirical support to general assumptions made in earlier research, but also demonstrate difficulties of such etic categorizations. In addition, the methodology could potentially be used with materials extending beyond those examined in the present article.","PeriodicalId":45773,"journal":{"name":"FOLKLORE","volume":"12 1","pages":"526 - 542"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"FOLKLORE","FirstCategoryId":"1092","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.2022.2064058","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FOLKLORE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Researchers in the field of Kalevala-metric poetry have regularly connected types of incantations called communicative and origin incantations with Finno-Karelian ritual specialists known as the tietäjät. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with this view, the assumption has never been empirically tested. This article reports a methodological experiment aimed at investigating the connection between ritual specialists and the two incantation types, based on an index of users of incantations from Viena Karelia. The analysis shows that a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods facilitates empirical investigation of the phenomenon. The results of the analysis give some empirical support to general assumptions made in earlier research, but also demonstrate difficulties of such etic categorizations. In addition, the methodology could potentially be used with materials extending beyond those examined in the present article.
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A fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. Folklore is one of the earliest journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The Folk-Lore Record in 1878. Folklore publishes ethnographical and analytical essays on vernacular culture worldwide, specializing in traditional narrative, language, music, song, dance, drama, foodways, medicine, arts and crafts, popular religion, and belief. It reviews current studies in a wide range of adjacent disciplines including anthropology, cultural studies, ethnology, history, literature, and religion. Folklore prides itself on its special mix of reviews, analysis, ethnography, and debate; its combination of European and North American approaches to the study of folklore; and its coverage not only of the materials and processes of folklore, but also of the history, methods, and theory of folkloristics. Folklore aims to be lively, informative and accessible, while maintaining high standards of scholarship.