Folklore in the Baltic History: Resistance and Resurgence is about
the role of folklore, folklore archives, and folklore studies in
the contemporary history of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania-together
called the Baltic countries. They were occupied by Russia, by
Germany, and lastly by the USSR at the end of the Second World War.
They regained freedom in 1991. The period under the rule of the
USSR brought several changes to their societies and cultures.
Individuals and institutions dealing with folklore-archives,
university departments, and folklorists-came under special control,
attack, and surveillance. Some of the pioneer folklorists escaped
to other countries, but many others witnessed their institutions
and the meaning of folklore studies transformed. The USSR did not
stop folklore studies but led the field to new methods. In spite of
all the pressure, folklore continued to be a matter of identity,
and folksongs became the marching songs of crowds resisting Soviet
control in the late 1980s. Since independence in 1991, folklore
scholars and institutions revamped and reconstituted folkloristics.
Today all three countries have many active scholars and
institutions. Sadhana Naithani recounts this resilient arc through
an intermedial and interdisciplinary methodology of research. She
combines the study of written works, archival documents,
life-stories, and conversations with folklorists, ethnologists,
archivists, and historians in Tartu, Riga, and Vilnius. She
recorded conversations on video, creating current reflections on
issues of the recent past. Based on the study of life-stories and
oral history projects, Naithani juxtaposes the history of
folkloristics and the life of the folk in the Soviet period of the
Baltic countries. The result is this dramatic, first-ever history
of Baltic folkloristics.
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