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Cultural Mapping versus Thick Description: Recent Folkloristic Practices in Estonia through the Eyes of an Anthropologist
Volume 13 (2006): Studia Anthropologica, II: Defining Region: Socio-cultural Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Part 2, pp. 151–157
Torstein Bach  

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Pub. online: 20 December 2006      Type: Article      Open accessOpen Access

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20 December 2006

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During my anthropological fieldwork in Estonia in 1996–97 I approached various folkloristic traditions and practices at several occasions. My meeting with folklorists and their practices can be described as a ‘clash’ between academic disciplines. As an anthropology student I obviously reacted to how folklorists related to their research material. It is probably often so when people from different disciplines meet, that disagreements will arise about how research is done and fieldwork material is interpreted. Somehow we have to accept these differences, but sometimes it is also inspiring to get to know what people from other disciplines think about your own discipline. I want to give an account of folkloristic practices as seen through the eyes of an anthropologist. And it is related to a particular time and place: Estonia in the 1990ties at the time of my fieldwork. I guess, and I know, that changes have occurred since then, but I still hope that these reflections can be of interest.

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socio-cultural anthropology cultural mapping Finno-Ugric ancient traditions ethno-graphic fieldworks definition of region anthropological interest in kinship definition of kinship

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