White Field, black seeds: Nordic literacy practices in the long nineteenth century

Egodocuments and History: A Short Account of the Longue Durée

“…67 project initiated by Anna Kuismin. 68 Indigenous Americans and other peoples whose culture is indifferent to alphabetic writing have also been the subject of study. The literature scholar Hertha Wong analyzed pre-Columbian Native American oral and pictographic "autobiography" texts in her pioneering 1992 study, Sending My Heart Back Across the Years; before this another literature scholar, Arnold Krupat, formulated the concept of "original bicultural composite composition" to describe the complex relations of authorship and selfreference in "autobiographies" ascribed to analphabetic Native Americans, but actually written down and published by non-indigenous settlers in the nineteenth century.…”

Reforming oral tradition by Elias Lönnrot and Otto Manninen

“…This article 1 draws on the international scholarly discussion of oral and written cultures and their overlapping relationship (Perraudin & Cambell 2017;Bak et al 2015;Kuismin & Driscoll 2013;Baycroft & Hopkin 2012;Leerssen 2008). Our knowledge of oral cultural heritage is based on written documentations or literary representations even though the collected material transcribed directly from the oral tradition and oral sources has generally been regarded as exhibiting the most authentic part of culture or heritage.…”

Meenutatud keel ja unustatud kiri: rahvalikud keelekorraldajad J. Hurda rahvaluulekogus

“…Selle terminiga saab kõige üldisemalt viidata kirjutamispraktikatele, mis on kerkinud esile väljaspool kirjutamist levitavaid institutsioone (Barton & Hamilton 2003;Fabian 1993). Mõiste iseenesest on lai ja hõlmab nii üldise kirjaoskusega ühiskondades levinud igapäevaelulisi kirjakasutusi (vt Barton & Hamilton 2003;Sheridan & Street & Bloom 2000) kui ka seda, mida teevad eliidist väljapoole jäävad vähesed kirjaoskajad veel mitte täielikult kirjalikustunud ühiskondades (Fabian 1993;Barber 2006aBarber , 2007Van Toorn 2006;Laitinen & Mikkola 2013;Kuismin & Driscoll 2013). Käesolevas artiklis olen tuge leidnud just viimasesse rühma kuuluvatest uurimustest.…”