Songs of the Border People : Genre, Reflexivity, and Performance in Karelian Oral Poetry
69: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. In her comprehensive study of Karelian oral poetry Lotte Tarkka places this tradition within historical and ethnographic realities, contexts of local and elite ideologies, and the system of folklore genres. The songs of the border people emerge as praxis, the communicative creation.....

