Juha Pentikainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 225627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juha Pentikainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juha |
| FAMILY NAME | Pentikainen |
| SIGNATURE | PENTIKAINEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Shamanic Drum as Cognitive Map
Sur les tambours des chamanes Sâmes sont dessinées leurs représentations mythiques du monde. Ces cosmologies sont figurées autour d’un soleil central et sont structurées selon un modèle sacré tripartite. Ce sont de véritables cognitive maps utilisées lors des séances de transe chamanistique. La face interne de ces tambours est elle aussi porteuse de significations ésotériques et rituelles (le chasseur astral). L’article présente une riche iconogr…
Thinking Globally about Local Religious Societies
Globalization has affected indigenous peoples and their traditional cultures in significant ways. Throughout the world, some 190 million people are identified by religious cultures that are variously known as “native,” “indigenous,” “local,” and “ethnic” religions. These are the native people of North and South America, Siberia and Northern Europe, and the tribal peoples of Africa, India, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and …
Shamanism and Culture
Shamanism and Northern Ecology
Finno-Ugric Miijorities in Siberia: Extinction or Survival
Finno-ugrische Minderheiten in Sibirien: Aussterben oder Ùberleben? Beinahe die Halfte der sechsundzwanzig Sprachgruppen der nordlichen Sowjetunion sind vom Aussterben bedroht, Die Chanten und Mansi aus der finno-ugrischen Sprachfamilie konnten bald als Opfer wirtschaftlicher Veranderungen, die ihre traditionelle Lebensweise zerstôrt haben, von der Vôlkerkarte verschwinden. Die heutigen sowjetischen Behôrden sind zwar an der Erhaltung dieser Spra…
Child abandonment as an indicator of Christianization in the Nordic countries
In the Nordic countries, child abandonment seems to have been a commonly accepted social tradition until the acceptance of Christianity. When Christian influences reached the Far North, this old practice was gradually criminalized. When the old practice was criminalized by Christian sanctions and norms, the abandoned, murdered or aborted unbaptized children were experienced supernaturally. Their supranormal manifestations are described in Nordic …
Themes of Death and Violence in Lullabies of Different Countries
Lullabies are often divided into mourning songs describing the death or funeral of the child and threat songs which threaten the child with violence if he does not go to sleep. Threat songs are considerably more common then lullabies with death themes; according to results of the present survey, the former were found in many parts of the world. Lullabies with death themes are frequent in Finno-Ugric and Slavic cultures but not in most others. The…
Themes of Suicide in the Kalevala
The Kalevala, Finland's national epic, is one of the most crucial elements of Finnish cultural identity, and it still occupies an important position in Finnish culture. Violence, death, and suicide are oft-repeated themes in Finnish folklore. The Finnish national epic provides an insight into past attitudes towards death. Traditions passed on from one generation to the next have obviously influenced people's attitudes towards suicide
The Saami shamanic drum in Rome
What is the history of the drum, which once arrived from the Saami area in northernmost Europe to the collections of an Italian museum, L. Pigorini museum? At the moment, it is the only Saami drum the existence of which is certain in Italy. Saami drums were probably popular objects of export in the 17th and 18th centuries. Missionaries and explorers brought dozens of drums from various parts of Lappmark to be sold and shipped to the private colle…
The Human Life Cycle and Annual Rhythm of Nature in Finnish Folklore
No abstract available
Traditions in Contact and Change
Oral Repertoire and World View: An Anthropological Study of Marina Takalo's Life History
The symbolism of liminality
In this paper, the author discusses different understandings of the symbolism of liminality. According to Van Gennep’s definition, rites de passage are rites which accompany every change of place, state, social position and age. In primitive communities these changes are generally made public and their importance is hallowed by rites which follow a pattern. From the structural point of view, the liminal stage could also be regarded as a crucial p…
Life History and World View
No abstract available
The Encounter of Religions as a Religio-Scientific Problem
No abstract available
Revivalist movements and religious contracultures in Finland
The religious behavior of the Finns has usually been characterised as an extremely static phenomenon which is further colored by a strong ecclesiastical tradition. This may be seen in that over 92 % of the Finnish population belongs to the Evangelical-Lutheran Church and that the largest religious movements function within this church. This conception seems to receive additional support by the fact that, with the exception of the most recent neo-…
Communication
Quellenanalytische Probleme der religiösen Überlieferung
No abstract available
The Nordic Dead-Child Tradition: Nordic Dead-Child Beings
The Dead without Status
No abstract available
Grenzprobleme zwischen Memorat und Sage
No abstract available
Oral Repertoire and World View: An Anthropological Study of Marina Takalo's Life History
Shamanism and Culture
Traditions in Contact and Change
The symbolism of liminality
In this paper, the author discusses different understandings of the symbolism of liminality. According to Van Gennep’s definition, rites de passage are rites which accompany every change of place, state, social position and age. In primitive communities these changes are generally made public and their importance is hallowed by rites which follow a pattern. From the structural point of view, the liminal stage could also be regarded as a crucial p…
Grenzprobleme zwischen Memorat und Sage
No abstract available
The Dead without Status
No abstract available
Quellenanalytische Probleme der religiösen Überlieferung
No abstract available
The Nordic Dead-Child Tradition: Nordic Dead-Child Beings
Communication
Revivalist movements and religious contracultures in Finland
The religious behavior of the Finns has usually been characterised as an extremely static phenomenon which is further colored by a strong ecclesiastical tradition. This may be seen in that over 92 % of the Finnish population belongs to the Evangelical-Lutheran Church and that the largest religious movements function within this church. This conception seems to receive additional support by the fact that, with the exception of the most recent neo-…
The Encounter of Religions as a Religio-Scientific Problem
No abstract available
Life History and World View
No abstract available
The symbolism of liminality
In this paper, the author discusses different understandings of the symbolism of liminality. According to Van Gennep’s definition, rites de passage are rites which accompany every change of place, state, social position and age. In primitive communities these changes are generally made public and their importance is hallowed by rites which follow a pattern. From the structural point of view, the liminal stage could also be regarded as a crucial p…
Traditions in Contact and Change
Oral Repertoire and World View: An Anthropological Study of Marina Takalo's Life History
The Human Life Cycle and Annual Rhythm of Nature in Finnish Folklore
No abstract available
The Saami shamanic drum in Rome
What is the history of the drum, which once arrived from the Saami area in northernmost Europe to the collections of an Italian museum, L. Pigorini museum? At the moment, it is the only Saami drum the existence of which is certain in Italy. Saami drums were probably popular objects of export in the 17th and 18th centuries. Missionaries and explorers brought dozens of drums from various parts of Lappmark to be sold and shipped to the private colle…
Themes of Suicide in the Kalevala
The Kalevala, Finland's national epic, is one of the most crucial elements of Finnish cultural identity, and it still occupies an important position in Finnish culture. Violence, death, and suicide are oft-repeated themes in Finnish folklore. The Finnish national epic provides an insight into past attitudes towards death. Traditions passed on from one generation to the next have obviously influenced people's attitudes towards suicide
Child abandonment as an indicator of Christianization in the Nordic countries
In the Nordic countries, child abandonment seems to have been a commonly accepted social tradition until the acceptance of Christianity. When Christian influences reached the Far North, this old practice was gradually criminalized. When the old practice was criminalized by Christian sanctions and norms, the abandoned, murdered or aborted unbaptized children were experienced supernaturally. Their supranormal manifestations are described in Nordic …
Themes of Death and Violence in Lullabies of Different Countries
Lullabies are often divided into mourning songs describing the death or funeral of the child and threat songs which threaten the child with violence if he does not go to sleep. Threat songs are considerably more common then lullabies with death themes; according to results of the present survey, the former were found in many parts of the world. Lullabies with death themes are frequent in Finno-Ugric and Slavic cultures but not in most others. The…
Finno-Ugric Miijorities in Siberia: Extinction or Survival
Finno-ugrische Minderheiten in Sibirien: Aussterben oder Ùberleben? Beinahe die Halfte der sechsundzwanzig Sprachgruppen der nordlichen Sowjetunion sind vom Aussterben bedroht, Die Chanten und Mansi aus der finno-ugrischen Sprachfamilie konnten bald als Opfer wirtschaftlicher Veranderungen, die ihre traditionelle Lebensweise zerstôrt haben, von der Vôlkerkarte verschwinden. Die heutigen sowjetischen Behôrden sind zwar an der Erhaltung dieser Spra…
Shamanism and Northern Ecology
Shamanism and Culture
Thinking Globally about Local Religious Societies
Globalization has affected indigenous peoples and their traditional cultures in significant ways. Throughout the world, some 190 million people are identified by religious cultures that are variously known as “native,” “indigenous,” “local,” and “ethnic” religions. These are the native people of North and South America, Siberia and Northern Europe, and the tribal peoples of Africa, India, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and …
The Shamanic Drum as Cognitive Map
Sur les tambours des chamanes Sâmes sont dessinées leurs représentations mythiques du monde. Ces cosmologies sont figurées autour d’un soleil central et sont structurées selon un modèle sacré tripartite. Ce sont de véritables cognitive maps utilisées lors des séances de transe chamanistique. La face interne de ces tambours est elle aussi porteuse de significations ésotériques et rituelles (le chasseur astral). L’article présente une riche iconogr…
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