Ü Valk
Biographic Data
| ID | 65998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ü Valk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ü |
| FAMILY NAME | Valk |
| SIGNATURE | VALK Ü |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2981-0173 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Magia, participación y género: Experiencias narrativas de lo sobrenatural
El presente artículo analiza la magia y lo sobrenatural desde una perspectiva folclórica, como fenómenos culturales construidos verbalmente. Se parte del concepto de participación de Lévy-Bruhl, que se interpreta como el involucramiento en la narración, sea como hablante o como oyente, que puede evocar experiencias extraordinarias. La leyenda pertenece a los géneros de encantamiento que penetran mundos materiales, sociales y psicológicos, y los v…
Vilmos Voigt, folklorist and semiotician (1940–2025)
Vilmos Voigt, folklorist and semiotician (1940–2025)
The Instrumental Vernacular
Written as a response to professor Simon Bronner's critical analysis of the concept vernacular and its uses, published in the Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (2022), the article highlights the functionality of the term 'vernacular'. It has become a folkloristic category, binding conceptual domains such as 'folk' and 'institutional', 'folkloric' and 'authored', 'oral' and 'literary', 'belief' and 'knowledge', which have often been set apart…
Storied and Supernatural Places: Studies in Spatial and Social Dimensions of Folklore and Sagas
This book addresses the narrative construction of places, the relationship between tradition communities and their environments, the supernatural dimensions of cultural landscapes and wilderness as they are manifested in European folklore and in early literary sources, such as the Old Norse sagas. The first section “Explorations in Place-Lore” discusses cursed and sacred places, churches, graveyards, haunted houses, cemeteries, grave mounds, hill…
Shrines, stones, and memories: The entangled storyworld of a goddess temple in Assam
The article explores the place-lore of a small goddess temple in Silghat in Nagaon district, Assam, and is based on fieldwork conducted during four site visits from 2009 until 2016. The temple was established by Ahom King Pramatta Simha in 1745 and is dedicated to Kamakhya, a local goddess, who has been affiliated with pan-Indian pauranik mythology. Three Brahmin families have been serving in the temple since its foundation and their stories reve…
Koost lagunev või uuenev folkloristika? Filoloogilisi vaateid
Eesti teadustraditsioonis on rahvaluulet pikka aega peetud filoloogia valdkonnaks. Eesti folkloriste on eelkõige huvitanud sõnakunst, mis varieerub ja ringleb vabalt suulistes ja kirjalikes suhtluskanalites. Lisaks pärimuslikule tekstile põhilise uurimisobjektina on eriala ühtsust kujundanud retrospektiivne vaateviis, soov säilitada kaduvat ja otsida tõde minevikust. Et teaduslikud otsingud kipuvad alati varasemaid piire ületama, oleks siiski tar…
Kui muistendist saab fiktsioon
MUISTEND KUI ŽANR JA SELLE DISKURSIIVSED KONTEKSTID Muinasjutt, müüt ja muistend on need kolm suurt jutužanri, millele on üles ehitatud folkloorse proosa rahvusvaheline põhijaotus (Bascom 1984). See esinduslik kolmik hakkas kujunema juba Jakob ja Wilhelm Grimmi töödes, kusjuures muistendi (ingl legend, sks Sage) kui autonoomse žanri konstrueerimises sai põhiliseks kriteeriumiks vastandus muinasjutule (ingl folktale, sks [...]
Discursive Shifts in Legends from Demonization to Fictionalization
The relationship between vernacular genres and their discursive, social, and historical context is one of the major problems of folkloristic scholarship. In order to understand generic expressivity we need to look into its communicative uses and surroundings, whereas it is often diffficult to identify genres, diffferentiate between them, and delineate the boundaries that would set them apart from the rest of discourse. Some verbal genres can easi…
Folkloristic Contributions towards Religious Studies in Estonia: A Historical Outline
The article outlines the historical development of the study of folk religion and mythology in Estonian scholarship. It shows how the changing ideological and political context and formation of folkloristics as an autonomous discipline have shaped the construction of its object – Estonian folk religion. The roots of conceptualizing folk religion as an inherited set of survivals of heathendom lies on the one hand in the systematic work of the Luth…
Mythic Discourses: Studies in Uralic Traditions
mentioned in the list of references.Earlier versions of a few sections of this article were also published in Anna-Leena Siikala & Oleg Ulyashev, Hidden Rituals and Public Performances.Tradition and Belonging among the Post
Caste Divisions in the Religious Folklore of Tamil Nadu
Anthropos , Seite 205 - 213
Superstition in Estonian Folklore: From Official Category to Vernacular Concept [1]
Superstition (ebausk), which was introduced into Estonia as an official religious category, has become a vernacular concept that is widely used nowadays to discuss and interpret supernatural beliefs and magical practices. The present article examines the history of the concept, its current usage, and dominant attitudes towards superstitions in Estonia
Ghostly Possession and Real Estate: The Dead in Contemporary Estonian Folklore
This article examines Estonian folklore about ghosts in generic, social, and historical contexts. It argues that the presumed expectations of the dead can become a coercive force on the behavior of the living, whose fears and anxieties are symbolically expressed in legends and memorates. Return of the restless dead in contemporary Estonian folklore manifests discrepancies between the values and norms of modern people and those of previous generat…
The Black Gentleman: Manifestations of the Devil in Estonian Folk Religion
The Significance of Baptism in Estonian Folk Belief
In Christian Europe baptism has traditionally occupied a central position in granting a child the right to live and accepting it into human society. It was not otherwise in Estonia. Though the ritual itself is short, lasting only a few minutes, it is of cardinal importance in shaping the fate of the child. The following is a short survey of how baptism has been interpreted in Estonian folk belief. Since baptism is closely connected with other iss…
Mythic Discourses: Studies in Uralic Traditions
mentioned in the list of references.Earlier versions of a few sections of this article were also published in Anna-Leena Siikala & Oleg Ulyashev, Hidden Rituals and Public Performances.Tradition and Belonging among the Post
The Instrumental Vernacular
Written as a response to professor Simon Bronner's critical analysis of the concept vernacular and its uses, published in the Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (2022), the article highlights the functionality of the term 'vernacular'. It has become a folkloristic category, binding conceptual domains such as 'folk' and 'institutional', 'folkloric' and 'authored', 'oral' and 'literary', 'belief' and 'knowledge', which have often been set apart…
Ghostly Possession and Real Estate: The Dead in Contemporary Estonian Folklore
This article examines Estonian folklore about ghosts in generic, social, and historical contexts. It argues that the presumed expectations of the dead can become a coercive force on the behavior of the living, whose fears and anxieties are symbolically expressed in legends and memorates. Return of the restless dead in contemporary Estonian folklore manifests discrepancies between the values and norms of modern people and those of previous generat…
The Black Gentleman: Manifestations of the Devil in Estonian Folk Religion
Superstition in Estonian Folklore: From Official Category to Vernacular Concept [1]
Superstition (ebausk), which was introduced into Estonia as an official religious category, has become a vernacular concept that is widely used nowadays to discuss and interpret supernatural beliefs and magical practices. The present article examines the history of the concept, its current usage, and dominant attitudes towards superstitions in Estonia
Discursive Shifts in Legends from Demonization to Fictionalization
The relationship between vernacular genres and their discursive, social, and historical context is one of the major problems of folkloristic scholarship. In order to understand generic expressivity we need to look into its communicative uses and surroundings, whereas it is often diffficult to identify genres, diffferentiate between them, and delineate the boundaries that would set them apart from the rest of discourse. Some verbal genres can easi…
The Significance of Baptism in Estonian Folk Belief
In Christian Europe baptism has traditionally occupied a central position in granting a child the right to live and accepting it into human society. It was not otherwise in Estonia. Though the ritual itself is short, lasting only a few minutes, it is of cardinal importance in shaping the fate of the child. The following is a short survey of how baptism has been interpreted in Estonian folk belief. Since baptism is closely connected with other iss…
The Black Gentleman: Manifestations of the Devil in Estonian Folk Religion
Ghostly Possession and Real Estate: The Dead in Contemporary Estonian Folklore
This article examines Estonian folklore about ghosts in generic, social, and historical contexts. It argues that the presumed expectations of the dead can become a coercive force on the behavior of the living, whose fears and anxieties are symbolically expressed in legends and memorates. Return of the restless dead in contemporary Estonian folklore manifests discrepancies between the values and norms of modern people and those of previous generat…
Superstition in Estonian Folklore: From Official Category to Vernacular Concept [1]
Superstition (ebausk), which was introduced into Estonia as an official religious category, has become a vernacular concept that is widely used nowadays to discuss and interpret supernatural beliefs and magical practices. The present article examines the history of the concept, its current usage, and dominant attitudes towards superstitions in Estonia
Caste Divisions in the Religious Folklore of Tamil Nadu
Anthropos , Seite 205 - 213
Mythic Discourses: Studies in Uralic Traditions
mentioned in the list of references.Earlier versions of a few sections of this article were also published in Anna-Leena Siikala & Oleg Ulyashev, Hidden Rituals and Public Performances.Tradition and Belonging among the Post
Folkloristic Contributions towards Religious Studies in Estonia: A Historical Outline
The article outlines the historical development of the study of folk religion and mythology in Estonian scholarship. It shows how the changing ideological and political context and formation of folkloristics as an autonomous discipline have shaped the construction of its object – Estonian folk religion. The roots of conceptualizing folk religion as an inherited set of survivals of heathendom lies on the one hand in the systematic work of the Luth…
Kui muistendist saab fiktsioon
MUISTEND KUI ŽANR JA SELLE DISKURSIIVSED KONTEKSTID Muinasjutt, müüt ja muistend on need kolm suurt jutužanri, millele on üles ehitatud folkloorse proosa rahvusvaheline põhijaotus (Bascom 1984). See esinduslik kolmik hakkas kujunema juba Jakob ja Wilhelm Grimmi töödes, kusjuures muistendi (ingl legend, sks Sage) kui autonoomse žanri konstrueerimises sai põhiliseks kriteeriumiks vastandus muinasjutule (ingl folktale, sks [...]
Discursive Shifts in Legends from Demonization to Fictionalization
The relationship between vernacular genres and their discursive, social, and historical context is one of the major problems of folkloristic scholarship. In order to understand generic expressivity we need to look into its communicative uses and surroundings, whereas it is often diffficult to identify genres, diffferentiate between them, and delineate the boundaries that would set them apart from the rest of discourse. Some verbal genres can easi…
Koost lagunev või uuenev folkloristika? Filoloogilisi vaateid
Eesti teadustraditsioonis on rahvaluulet pikka aega peetud filoloogia valdkonnaks. Eesti folkloriste on eelkõige huvitanud sõnakunst, mis varieerub ja ringleb vabalt suulistes ja kirjalikes suhtluskanalites. Lisaks pärimuslikule tekstile põhilise uurimisobjektina on eriala ühtsust kujundanud retrospektiivne vaateviis, soov säilitada kaduvat ja otsida tõde minevikust. Et teaduslikud otsingud kipuvad alati varasemaid piire ületama, oleks siiski tar…
Shrines, stones, and memories: The entangled storyworld of a goddess temple in Assam
The article explores the place-lore of a small goddess temple in Silghat in Nagaon district, Assam, and is based on fieldwork conducted during four site visits from 2009 until 2016. The temple was established by Ahom King Pramatta Simha in 1745 and is dedicated to Kamakhya, a local goddess, who has been affiliated with pan-Indian pauranik mythology. Three Brahmin families have been serving in the temple since its foundation and their stories reve…
Storied and Supernatural Places: Studies in Spatial and Social Dimensions of Folklore and Sagas
This book addresses the narrative construction of places, the relationship between tradition communities and their environments, the supernatural dimensions of cultural landscapes and wilderness as they are manifested in European folklore and in early literary sources, such as the Old Norse sagas. The first section “Explorations in Place-Lore” discusses cursed and sacred places, churches, graveyards, haunted houses, cemeteries, grave mounds, hill…
The Instrumental Vernacular
Written as a response to professor Simon Bronner's critical analysis of the concept vernacular and its uses, published in the Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (2022), the article highlights the functionality of the term 'vernacular'. It has become a folkloristic category, binding conceptual domains such as 'folk' and 'institutional', 'folkloric' and 'authored', 'oral' and 'literary', 'belief' and 'knowledge', which have often been set apart…
Magia, participación y género: Experiencias narrativas de lo sobrenatural
El presente artículo analiza la magia y lo sobrenatural desde una perspectiva folclórica, como fenómenos culturales construidos verbalmente. Se parte del concepto de participación de Lévy-Bruhl, que se interpreta como el involucramiento en la narración, sea como hablante o como oyente, que puede evocar experiencias extraordinarias. La leyenda pertenece a los géneros de encantamiento que penetran mundos materiales, sociales y psicológicos, y los v…
Vilmos Voigt, folklorist and semiotician (1940–2025)
Vilmos Voigt, folklorist and semiotician (1940–2025)
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