From Collecting to Studying the Folklore of Siberian Estonians and Latvians

In December 2008, the joint conference of Estonian and Latvian researchers of culture, 'Compatriots in Siberia', was held at the Estonian Literary Museum (for the abstracts see The Estonian-Latvian Conference 2008). At the conference, an idea was put forward to compile a collection of articles based on the research of compatriots of these two countries in Siberia, to introduce the corresponding work and studies to a wider audience. The publication is now presented as a special issue of journal Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore. The articles published in this volume are authored by folklorists and ethnologists from Estonia and Latvia. Among the conference participants were also linguists and teachers Lidia Leikuma, Alekseis Andronovs, Kristine Zute and Mara Mortuzane, who have carried out a study on the Latgalian language in the Latgale region of Krasnoyarsk Krai; Eta Nikolaeva and Solveta Logina, who have analysed the activities of winter workshops in Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai; and ethnologist Igor Tnurist, who has studied folk music practices and folk musicians in Siberia. At the conference two documentaries were screened: Liene Linde and Dainis Juraga's No Country for Catholics, and Andres Korjus's On Foreign Lands: Native Estonians in Siberia. In the White Hall of the University

Archaeology · Ethnology · Folklore · Geography · Political science · European Linguistics and Anthropology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History

• Researchers-archivists and Siberian Correspondent Rosalie Ottesson

  Open Access•Anu Korb•Mäetagused•2013

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