[The Storytelling human: Lithuanian folk tradition today. Lina Būgienė]

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Document Type:
Recenzija / Book review
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
[The Storytelling human: Lithuanian folk tradition today. Lina Būgienė]
Authors:
Kockel, Ullrich
In the Journal:
Lietuvos etnologija, 2022, 22 (31), p. 167-169
Recenzuojama knyga: The Storytelling human: Lithuanian folk tradition today / compiled and edited by Lina Būgienė Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020. xvii, 270 p.
Summary / Abstract:

ENIn an academic world exceedingly dominated by anglophonie, work published in languages other than the ubiquitous English tends to be dismissed by a primarily monoglot anglophone readership as parochial almost by definition. As an early career researcher, this reviewer was once informed by a well-meaning colleague: ‘If it is important, it is published in English.’ By that token, any research, for its value to be recognised, has to be translated into English. With that in view, Indiana University Press in the 1980s and 1990s produced the series ‘Folklore Studies in Translation’, which featured Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology (1992) by Algirdas Greimas. ‘Lithuanian Studies without Borders’ continues that laudable endeavour with a broader disciplinary remit, and it is good to see folklore studies featuring in that portfolio. [...].

DOI:
10.33918/25386522-2231010
ISBN:
9781644694237
ISSN:
1392-4028
Subject:
Etnologija / Ethnology
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2024-03-17 18:22:27
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