Second revised edition with an introduction by Ulrika Wolf-Knuts.
The eighteen articles of "Approaching Methodology" open broadly international and cross-disciplinary discussions on different aspects of methods and methodology. This volume brings many complementary perspectives on approaching and analyzing aspects of culture and cultural expression into dialogue, especially from fields of folklore studies, ethnology, philology, medieval studies, linguistics and semiotics. The introduction will be valuable for students and young scholars who are trying to orient themselves amid the questions, challenges and potentials associated with methods and methodologies.
Author(s): Frog, Pauliina Latvala, Helen F. Leslie (eds.)
Series: Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia / Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ, Humaniora, 368
Edition: 2
Publisher: Academia Scientiarum Fennica
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 432
City: Helsinki
Preface and Acknowledgements 5
Introduction 13
Ulrika Wolf-Knuts / The Omnipresent Method 15
Part I: Method in Practice 39
Method in Practice: An Introduction 41
Frog (in collaboration with Pauliina Latvala) / Opening Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue: A Virtual Workshop on Methodology 49
Espen Suenson / Method and Fieldwork in a Hermeneutical Perspective 69
Jill Bradley / Building a Visual Vocabulary: The Methodology of 'Reading' Images in Context 83
Frog / The Parallax Approach: Situating Traditions in Long-Term Perspective 99
Sonja Peterson-Lewis / The Ghost of Methodologies Past: untangling Methods, Methodologies, and Methodologists in Black Studies 131
Part II: Constructing Data 153
Constructing Data: An Introduction 155
Francisco Martínez Ibarra / Qualitative Research and the Study of Language Use and Attitudes 161
Venla Sykäri / Dialogic Methodology and the Dialogic Space Created 'after' an Interview 171
Erin Michelle Goeres / Editing Skaldic Verse and the Problem of Prosimetra 185
Dani Schrire / Ethnographic Questionnaires: After Method, after Questions 201
Part III: Culturally Sensitive Reading 213
Culturally Sensitive Reading: An Introduction 215
Rebecca M. C. Fisher / The Anglo-Saxon Charms: Texts in Context 221
Pauliina Latvala & Kirsi Laurén / The Sensitive Interpretation of Emotions: Methodological Perspectives on Studying Meanings in Oral History Texts 249
Thelma Lazo-Flores / Design 'Poiesis': An Inquiry on Outcomes in the Use of Method and Methodology 267
Helen F. Leslie / Younger Icelandic Manuscripts and Old Norse Studies 287
Fjodor Uspenskij / Ferocious Beast ('óarga dýr') between North and East 311
Part IV: Function, structure and statistics 323
Function, Structure and Statistics: An Introduction 325
Emily Osborne / Categorising Christ within an Age-'ǫld' Paradigm: The 'kenning System' and Shifting Cultural Referents 331
Haukur Þorgeirsson / Poetic Formulas in Late Medieval Icelandic Folk Poetry: The Case of 'Vambarljóð' 347
Mathias Nordvig / A Method for Analyzing World-Models in Scandinavian Mythology 377
Vladimir Glukhov & Natalia Glukhova / A System of Techniques and Stratagems for Outlining a Traditional Ethnic Identity 399
Indices 413
