Lauri Harvilahti
Lauri Harvilahti is the Director of the Folklore Archives of the Finnish Literature Society. His research interests and activities include epic poetry, Finnish Kalevala poetry, folklore archive research, ethno-cultural worldviews, issues of cultural identity, and the history of folkloristics. He has carried out fieldwork in Russia, the Upper Altay in China, India, Bangladesh, and Kenya. His publications include four monographs, seven singly edited or co-edited volumes, and several dozen articles or book chapters, in various languages.
Articles by Lauri Harvilahti
The Production of Finnish Epic Poetry—Fixed Wholes or Creative Compositions?
Volume 7, Issue 1 (March, 1992)Epos and National Identity: Transformations and Incarnations
Volume 11, Issue 1 (March, 1996)Altai Oral Epic
Volume 15, Issue 2 (October, 2000)Folklore and Oral Tradition
Volume 18, Issue 2 (October, 2003)The SKVR Database of Ancient Poems of the Finnish People in Kalevala Meter and the Semantic Kalevala
Volume 28, Issue 2 (October, 2013)
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