Folklore Fellows

FF Newsletter 60 (Winter 2025) is out!

CONTENTS

Provincializing Modernity 3
Frog

The UNESCO Process Led Kaustinen Fiddle Players to Fruitful Self-Reflection 4
Lauri Oino

Considering Text Ideology 7
Frog

World Philology Union – WPU 14

FFC 328: Explorations in the Violence of Traditions and the Traditions of Violence 16

FFC 329: Luc Lacourcière & Margaret Low: Le Catalogue raisonné du conte populaire français en Amérique du Nord – Les Contes d’animaux 16

FFC 330: Matthias Egeler & Jón Jónsson (eds.) The Treatise on Elves by Ólafur of Purkey: Cosmology and Folk Belief in Nineteenth-Century Iceland – Book & Symposium 17

CFP (DL 15 Feb 2026): 54th International Conference of the Kommission für Volksdichtung | 16th Conference on Traditional Singing 18

FFN 60 - Folklore Fellows Editorial: Whether we view the era of ideologies that are being struggled with today as mainly belonging to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries or to a period of five centuries, it is only ‘five minutes of fame’ in the scope of human history. Modernity should be engaged as the provincial phen...