Scholarly books from finland 2015

Scholarly Books from Finland

Scholarly Books from Finland 2015

Bookstore Tiedekirja serves Finnish learned societies by distri足 buting their books and journals domestically and internationally.

This catalogue contains their recent international titles focusing on various themes such as Viking Age, Dead Sea Scrolls, sociolin足 guistics and interdisciplinary methods. We hope that you enjoy the selection.

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HISTORY

Edited by Joonas Ahola, Frog & Jenni Lucenius

The Viking Age in Åland Insights into Identity and Remnants of Culture

The Viking Age in Åland presents a mystery. Who were these people who lived there and developed the culture and language of the area?

It is difficult even to define exactly when the Viking Age occurred in Åland. The period is generally considered having started in the ninth and tenth centuries AD and ended in the eleventh century. The book shows earlier interpretations, presents current views and offers exploratory investigations that will interest both specialists and devotees.

Publisher: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters • Series: Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Humaniora 372 • ISBN 978-951-41-1098-6 • ISSN 1239-6982 • 427pp. • Soft • 2014 • EUR 40

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Edited by Joonas Ahola & Frog with Clive Tolley

Fibula, Fabula, Fact The Viking Age in Finland The 19 chapters of this book provide introductions to the sources, methods and perspectives of diverse disciplines examining the Viking Age in Finland.

Discussions are presented from the fields of archaeology, folklore studies, genetics, geopolitics, historiography, language history, linguistics, palaeobotany, semiotics and toponymy. Each chapter is intended to be accessible to specialists from other fields, specialists from outside Finland, and to non-specialist readers who may be more generally interested in the topic.

Publisher: Finnish Literature Society • Series: Studia Fennica.

Historica 18 • ISBN 978-952-222-603-7 • ISSN 1458-526X • 519pp. • Soft • 2014 • EUR 43

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Joonas Korhonen

Social Choreography of the Viennese Waltz The Transfer and Reception of the Dance in Vienna and Europe, 1780–1825

Tauno Saarela

Finnish communism visited Finnish communism was one of the largest communist movements in Europe. It was deeply rooted in Finnish society and the traditions of the Finnish labour movement, but it also had strong ties with Soviets. In 1918–1944 the movement was active in Finland as well as in the Soviet Union. The articles of this book discuss the contacts between the Communist International and Finnish communism, the relations between Finnish and Scandinavian communists, and the American impact on Finnish communism.

This book focuses on the socio-cultural and economic circumstances in which the Viennese waltz developed at the turn of the 19th century.

Through an examination of the production, dissemination and consumption of the waltz in Vienna and Europe during the period of 1780–1825, the book shows that the Viennese waltz became one of the first commodities of the culture industry. It was first adopted by the elite, but soon it was taught to the lower classes in the suburban dance schools and dance halls.

Publisher: Finnish Society for Labour History • Series: Papers on Labour History VII • ISBN 978-952-5976-18-2 • 233pp. • Soft • 2015 • EUR 25

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Publisher: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters • Series: Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae.

Humaniora 370 • ISBN 978-951-41-1096-2 • ISSN 1239-6982 • 228pp. • Soft • 2014 • EUR 35

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Vesa Vahtikari

Tragedy Performances outside Athens in the Late Fifth and the Fourth Centuries BC At the end of the fifth century and during the fourth century BC, both tragedies and comedies were performed in the demes of Attica at the Rural Dionysia.

During that time theatres were built in all major Greek cities. This study answers the questions of which individual tragedies were performed outside Athens, when the spread of tragic performances began on a wide scale, in which cities and on what kind of occasions tragedies were performed, and how were the arrangements for the tragic performances carried out in practice?

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Publisher: Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens • Series: Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens XX • ISBN 978-952-67211-8-7 • ISSN 1237-2684 • XII+334pp+32app. • Soft • 2014 • EUR 30

Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto

Her Own Worth Negotiations of Subjectivity in the Life Narrative of a Female Labourer This book opens up a window in the life of a female labourer who lived and worked in a small ironworks village in central Finland.

Her life touches upon many of the core aspects of 20th-century social change in Finland: increasing educational opportunities, social mobility, the emergence of new technologies and the transformation of gender roles. The research focuses on experiences related to gender, class and work, and on the changes occurring in these aspects of life.

Publisher: Finnish Literature Society • Series: Studia Fennica. Ethnologica 16 • ISBN 978-952222-609-9 • ISSN 1235-1954 • 215pp. • Soft • 2014 • EUR 43

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Edited by Nina EdgrenHenrichson. Translations David McDuff

Dolce far niente in Arabia Georg August Wallin and his travels in the 1840s In the 1840s, the Finnish Orientalist Georg August Wallin travelled in the Middle East where he collected material on Arabic dialects. In order to make contact with the local inhabitants he assumed a Muslim identity and disguised himself as the physician ‘Abd al-Wali from Central Asia. His unique material is preserved in diaries and letters. Wallin’s life and travels in Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula and Persia are described here by four scholars of Middle Eastern culture and history.

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Publisher: Society of Swedish Literature in Finland • ISBN 978-951-583-290-0 • 144pp. • Soft • 2014 • EUR 18

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Riika J. Virtanen

Tibetan Written Images A Study of Imagery in the Writings of Dhondup Gyal Tibetan writer Dhondup Gyal (1953–1985) is regarded as the founder of modern Tibetan literature. There is a real wealth of imagery both in his poems and prose. Nature imagery is especially prominent. His writings contain images of flowers, animals, water, wind and clouds, the heavenly bodies and other environmental elements. A special feature of Gyal’s style of writing is that he wrote using many styles: part of his poetry uses more traditional structural and metric forms and part of it is written in modern free verse.

Publisher: Finnish Oriental Society • Series: Studia Orientalia 115 • ISBN 978-951-9380-86-5 • ISSN 0039-3282 • XIII+332pp. • Soft • 2014 • EUR 24

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Tomi Mäkelä

Friedrich Pacius Ein deutscher Komponist in Finn­land. Mit einer Edition der Tagebücher, Briefe und Arbeitsmaterialen von Silke Bruns Pacius, der ab 1835 in Helsinki lebte, prägte das skandinavische Kulturleben wie kein anderer deutscher Komponist. Er komponierte die finnische Nationalhymne und 1852 die erste finnische Oper. Das Buch stellt Pacius’ Leben und Werk im kulturhistorischen, insbesondre nordeuropäischen Kontext dar. Im zweiten Teil des Buches werden Tagebücher, Briefe und andere Dokumente aus dem Nachlass des Komponisten veröffentlicht und von Silke Bruns kommentiert.

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Publisher: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland • Series: Skrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland 787 • ISBN 978-951-583-2795 • ISSN 0039-6842 • 552pp. • Hard • 2014 •EUR 40

Edited by Olli Matikainen & Satu Lidman

Morality, Crime and Social Control in Europe 1500– 1900 This book explores key themes in European history through case studies about the much-debated concept of “social control” from its exercise within the family and local communities to interventions at the highest state level. A wide range of regulated practices and institutions can be treated as manifestations of social control.

Their common feature is the way they develop a set of practices and rituals.

Publisher: Finnish Literature Society • Series: Studia Historica 84 • ISBN 978952-222-572-6 • ISSN 0081-6493 • 362pp.

• Soft • 2014 • EUR 45

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THEOLOGY

Edited by Mika S. Pajunen & Hanna Tervanotko

Crossing Imaginary Boundaries The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Context of Second Temple Judaism

Antti Laine

Ecumenical Attack against Racism The Anti-Racist Programme of the World Council of Churches, 1968–1974 The social and political changes of the 1960 set a test for the World Council of Churches (WCC), the foremost organization of the modern ecumenical movement.

This study concentrates on the WCC’s answer to the worldwide call for social justice: the Programme to Combat Racism (PCR). The PCR marked a turning point in the history of the WCC. It signalled a clear change from the WCC’s prior tendency of issuing the general statements of agreement to engaging in controversial action.

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Publisher: Luther-Agricola-Society • Series: Schriften der Luther-Agricola-Gesellschaft 68 • ISBN 978-951-9047-76-8 • ISSN: 1236-9675 • 394pp. • Soft • 2015 • EUR 33

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Crossing Imaginary Boundaries challenges the reader to rethink critically the categories and interdisciplinary borders that are currently used in the study of ancient Jewish texts. The book demonstrates the importance of crossing the boundaries between disciplines to get a fuller understanding of these texts.

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Publisher: Finnish Exegetical Society • Series: Publications of the Finnish Exegetical Society 108 • ISBN 978-951-9217-63-5 • ISSN 0356-2786 • 278pp. • Soft • 2015 • EUR 30

LINGUISTICS & LITERATURE

Soili Nokkonen

Changes in the field of obligation and necessity in contemporary British English A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of semi-modal NEED TO This book investigates semimodal NEED TO and its semantic variation in Present-day British English. This topic is particularly relevant today, since the use of semi-modals, such as NEED TO, has increased in the field of obligation and necessity, while the frequencies of core modals such as MUST and NEED have decreased.

The link of modal change with the process of democratization, and the way the semi-modals offer a less authoritarian way of obliging, present an interesting background for a corpus-based sociolinguistic study.

Publisher: Modern Language Society • Series: Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki XCV • ISBN 978-951-9040-52-3 • ISSN 0355-0192 • XIV+251pp. • Soft • 2015 • EUR 45

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Tanja Säily

Sociolinguistic variation in English derivational productivity Studies and methods in diachronic corpus linguistics The research presented in this book explores sociolinguistic variation and change in the morphological productivity of the nominal suffixes –ness and –ity from Early Modern English to Present-day English. To do this, it employs robust methods to compare item frequencies over time and across social categories. In addition to research into individual linguistic features, the methods can be used to compare corpora and study genre continuity.

Publisher: Modern Language Society • Series: Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki XCIV • ISBN 978-951-9040-50-9 • ISSN 0355-0192 • XVII+284pp. • Soft • 2014 • EUR 45

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Edited by Heikki Koskenniemi unter Mitw. von Erkki Koskenniemi & Johannes Koskenniemi

Papyri Turkuenses (P. Turku) Die Papyri im Besitz der Universitätsbibliothek Turku.

Anne-Christine Gardner

Derivation in Middle English Regional and Text Type Variation Focusing on deadjectival and denominal formations, this study traces developments in the frequency and productivity of twelve abstract-noun forming suffixes of Germanic and Romance origin on the basis of selected corpora. The study reveals that during the period under investigation the suffixes are not differentiated semantically in a systematic manner. The occurrence of a particular suffix can be influenced by stylistic factors such as rhyme. A specific region and text type also reflects the suffix usage.

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Publisher: Modern Language Society • Series: Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki XCII • ISBN 978-951-9040-48-6 • ISSN 0355-0192 • 289pp. • Soft • 2014 • EUR 45

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Die Sammlung der Turkuer Papyri zählt ihren Anfang von dem Ankauf einer Gruppe von meist griechischen Papyri im J. 1977 aus Österreich. Nach der Holung der Dokumente wurde unter Leitung des ord. Professors der klassischen Philologie an der Universität Turku, Heikki Koskenniemi, eine Arbeitsgruppe für die Behandlungen und Untersuchung der neuerschaffen Papyri begründet. Die Papyrussamlung wurde schon früh auch im Ausland bekannt. In mehreren internationalen Kongressen wurde sie den Fachleuten mit Proben vorgestellt.

Publisher: Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten • Series: Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 131 • ISBN 978-951-653-402-5 • ISSN 0069-6587 • V+135pp+17pp. • Hard • 2014 •EUR 25

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VARIA

Edited by Michel Ekman. Aus dem Schwedischen von Regine Elsässer

Finnlands schwedische Literatur 1900–2012 Mit einem Essay von Clas Zilliacus In Finnland werden seit vielen hundert Jahren Bücher auf schwedisch geschrieben.

Ungefähr seit der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert existiert neben der finnischsprachigen Majoritätsliteratur eine vielfältige schwedischsprachige Minoritätsliteratur. Die vorliegende Literaturgeschichte behandelt die finnlandschwedische Literatur vom Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts bis heute. Behandelt werden nicht nur Fiktionsprosa, Lyrik und Dramatik, sondern auch populäre Literatur, Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Essays und Memoiren.

Publisher: Schwedische Literatur­ gesellschaft in Finnland • ISBN 978-951-583289-4 • 365pp. •

Hard • 2014 • EUR 34

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Pauli Sivonen

Eija-Liisa Ahtila In the Woods There is a Bird A central theme in Eija-Liisa Ahtila´s work is the relationship between humanity, animals and the natural world. The book explores Ahtila´s video works through a close reading of the nature relationship embedded in them. The meticulously crafted realistic worlds of her video installations explode into fantastic episodes, their narrative split between several projection screens.

Their thought-provoking stories take the reader on a journey into the depths of the human mind.

Publisher: Finnish Literature Society • Series: Kirjokansi 96 • ISBN 978-952-222630-3 • ISSN 2323-7392 • 191pp. • Hard • 2015 • EUR 45

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Edited by Joakim Donner & Juha Janhunen. Photo Editor Peter Sandberg

Kai Donner Linguist, ethnographer, photographer Kai Donner was a Finnish linguist, ethnographer, explorer, author and national activist who completed two journeys to Siberia in 1911–1913 and 1914. In the field, he took hundreds of photographs conveying the true spirit of his fieldwork. This book presents a selection of these photos as high-quality reproductions. The book also contains articles on various aspects of Donner’s legacy, with the focus on his role as a specialist in multidisc­iplinary Siberian studies within the paradigm of Northern Ethnography.

Publisher: Finno-Ugrian Society • Series: Suomalais-ugrilaisen seuran kansatieteellisiä julkaisuja 21. Suomen kansallismuseon näyttely- ja kokoelmajulkaisuja 1 • ISBN 978-952-5667-57-8 • ISSN 0359-7679 • 174pp. • Hard • 2014 • EUR 60

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Edited by Laura Gutman & Laura Kuurne

Pohjoinen uusrokokoo – Nyrokokon och Norden – Neo-Rococo and the North Neo-Rococo and the North opens up new perspectives on NeoRococo painting and sets the phenomenon within the wider admiration of the 18th century in Sweden and Finland. Neo-Rococo and its Nordic form Gustavian style are best known as interior design styles but the art works inspired by the Rococo era are less wellknown. The book highlights the cultural and political circumstances reflected in Neo-Rococo art.

Publisher: Finnish Literature Society • Series: Kirjokansi 69. Serlachius-museoiden julkaisuja 19 • ISBN 978-952-222-576-4 • ISSN 2323-7392 • 166pp. • Hard • 2015 • EUR 39

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Art Leete

Guileless Indigenes and Hidden Passion Descriptions of Ob-Ugrians and Samoyeds through the Centuries

Edited by Tapio Raunio & Hannu Nurmi

The Serious Game of Politics Festschrift for Matti Wiberg Politics is a serious game producing winners and losers among political actors from individual citizens to countries.

Institutions are the rules of the game, structuring decision-making from elections to parliaments and governments. To mark the occasion of internationally known and esteemed scholar of parliaments and political institutions, Matti Wiberg´s, 60th birthday, a group of his collaborators, colleagues and friends presents this collection of essays as a token of their appreciation of Matti Wiberg´s academic career so far.

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Publisher: Finnish Political Science Association • Series: Books from the Finnish Political Science Association 26 • ISBN 978-952-674723-1 • 243pp. • Soft • 2014 • EUR 30

This monograph discusses the views of the character of the Khanty, Mansi and Nenets by the authors of different periods.

Art Leete examines the image of northern peoples beginning from ancient Greek and Roman accounts of peoples, medieval sources, modern travel journals and ends up with the analyses of contemporary scholarly writings. The theoretical framework of this monograph is related to the dialogue between modern theories of identity and the historical modes of description.

Publisher: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters • Series: Folklore Fellows’ Communications 306 • ISBN 978951-41-1092-4 • ISSN 0014-5815 • 308 pp. • Hard • 2014 • EUR 40

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Monkgogi Lenao

Rural tourism development and economic diversification for local communities in Botswana The case of Lekhubu Island

Kari Alenius

Unselfishly for Peace and Justice – and against Evil The Rhetoric of the Great Powers in the UN Security Council, 1946–1956 The United Nations Security Council represented the most central forum for debating international crises after the Second World War. This study examines the rhetoric used by the great powers in the United Nations Security Council, in the context of the international crises that occurred between 1946 and 1956. The arguments of the great powers represent integral parts of those powers’ political agendas. To them the Security Council served as a public forum where they might justify their political positions.

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Publisher: Historical Association of Northern Finland • Series: Studia Historica Septentrionalia 71 • ISBN 978-952-9888-54-2 • ISSN 0356-8199 • 248pp. • Hard • 2014 • EUR 56

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This thesis draws attention to the important factors to consider when proposing communitybased rural tourism as a tool for economic diversification among local communities in Botswana.

Using the case of Lekhubu Island, the thesis investigates: the community’s levels of awareness and preparedness to participate in tourism development; the relationship between the state and the community in the communitybased tourism development process; the challenges facing this kind of tourism development and its use in rural development.

Publisher: Geographical Society of Northern Finland • Series: Nordia Geographical Publications 43:2 • ISBN 978-952-62-0630-1 • ISSN 1238-2086 • XI+123pp. • Soft • 2014 • EUR 29

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Edited by Hannu T. Heikkinen, Josephine Moate & MarjaKristiina Lerkkanen

Enabling Education Proceedings of the annual conference of Finnish Educational Research Association FERA 2013 Edited by Eldar Heide & Karen Bek-Pedersen

New Focus on Retrospective Methods Resuming methodological discussions: case studies from Northern Europe The articles in this volume concern the questions of whether, how, and to what extent late-recorded material can be used to shed light on historically much earlier periods. It is a fact that our sources for the study of pre-Christian times in Northern Europe are limited. It is possible to get new and relevant information if we broaden our spectrum of sources to include not only contemporary or nearcomtemporary material, but also material from subsequent, even much later, periods.

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Publisher: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters • Series: Folklore Fellows’ Communications 307 • ISBN 978-951-411093-1 • ISSN 0014-5815 • 230pp. • Hard • 2014 • EUR 35

The first chapter of the proceedings is the FERA2013 keynote lecture Education for Life given by professor Stephen Kemmis. The second section is entitled Being Educated to Educate. The final section of the proceedings is entitled Engaging in Education with reference to schoolbased experiences and initiatives intended to foster Education with a big E.

Publisher: Finnish Educational Research Association • Series: Research in Educational Sciences 66 • ISBN 978-952-540168-4 • ISSN 14581094 • 292pp. • Soft • 2014 • EUR 31

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Edited by Maria Lähteenmäki & Alfred Colpaert

Edited by Kari Alenius & Veli-Pekka Lehtola

NGP Yearbook 2014 East meets North

Transcultural Encounters

This special volume of NGP Yearbook contains papers derived from the East meets North conference arranged at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) in November 2013. From the discussions in the conference we can identify four strong areas of research connected with the northern and eastern borderlands: 1) cross-border historical, cultural and economic contacts, 2) welfare, 3) the people of the North and their rights, and 4) crises occurring in northern regions and their consequences. This book provides examples of these points.

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Publisher: Geographical Society of Northern Finland • Series: Nordia Geographical Publications 43:1 • ISBN 978-952-620629-5 • ISSN 12382086 • 116pp. • Soft • 2014 • EUR 26

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The book is based on the papers presented in the “Transcultural Encounters Symposium” that took place at the University of Oulu on December 12th–13th, 2013. It was the first international event organized by the new Transcultural Ecounters research community which was established in 2012, in the Faculty of Humanities at the same university. It convened nine research groups to the crossroads of history, archeology, cultural anthropology, literary research, cultural research, Sámi studies, language research, and sociolinguistics.

Publisher: The Historical Society of Northern Finland • Series: Studia Historica Septentrionalia 75 • ISBN 978-952-9888-58-0 • ISSN 0356-8199 • 287pp. • Soft • 2015 • EUR 56

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