New Special Issue of the Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (Vol. 8, No. 2) Now Online

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (JEF) has recently published its latest issue Vol. 8, No. 2 at http://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/issue/view/15. You are welcome to review the Table of Contents here and visit the web site to read and download articles (open access).

This special issue was compiled and edited by Art Leete and Aimar Ventsel. Contributors of the issue were scholars from Estonia, Sweden and Russia. Hard copies of the Journal are available at the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, the Estonian National Museum, the Estonian Literary Museum and the University of Tartu Book Shop.

Table of Contents:

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
Vol 8, No 2 (2014)

Articles
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Preface to the Special Issue: Departures and Returns in the North (pp. 3-6)
Art Leete, Aimar Ventsel

Coming Back to the Same Places: The Ethnography of Human-Reindeer Relations in the Northern Baikal Region (pp. 7-32)
Vladimir Davydov

Belonging to the Land in Tura: Reforms, Migrations, and Indentity Politics in Evenkia (pp. 33-51)
Olga Povoroznyuk

The Consequences of State Intervention: Forced Relocations and Sámi Rights in Sweden, 1919–2012 (pp. 53-73)
Patrik Lantto

Sakha Music: Selling 'Exotic' Europeanness in Asia and Asianness in Europe (pp. 75-94)
Aimar Ventsel

On the Edge of Space and Time: Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic (pp. 95-120)
Laur Vallikivi

Hyperborea: The Arctic Myth of Contemporary Russian Radical Nationalists (pp. 121-138)
Victor Shnirelman