Volume 23.2: The Power of Examples

Guest Editors: Anne Eriksen and Kyrre Kverndokkn

Introduction

Antti Lindfors

Evidential Exemplarity and the Science-Driven Self-Spirituality of the Wim Hof Method

Kyrre Kverndokk

The Greta Story and the Narrative Authority of the Exemplar

Audun Kjus

Between the Crisis Ladder and the Utopia of Frugality: Negotiating Exemplarity in Current Imagined Futures

Anne Eriksen

The Epistemology of Examples: Models and Numbers in the Folklife Studies of Eilert Sundt (1857)

Marit Ruge Bjærke

Between Formlessness and Form: A Red King Crab on the Brink of Exemplarity

Response: Barbro Blehr

Additional Thoughts: Contextual Aspects of Examples and Exemplarity

Volume 23.1: Encountering Uncertainties in Ethnology and Folklore

Guest Editors Hande Birkalan-Gedik, Katre Kikas and Konrad J. Kuhn

Encountering Uncertainties in Ethnology and Folklore: Actors – Milieus – Strategies. An Introduction

Hande Birkalan-Gedik

Fieldwork in Times of Uncertainty: Hayrünnisa Boratav, Pertev Naili Boratav, and Their Collaboration in Folklore

Katre Kikas

Uncertainties of Modernity and the Folklore Collectors in the Last Decade of the Nineteenth Century Estonia

Sanna Kähkönen

“Following the Victors”? Uncertainties in Defining the Societal Influence of Ethnological Knowledge in Wartime Finland, 1941–1944.

Ave Goršič

Uncertainties in the Early 1990s for Estonian Folkloristics and the Estonian Folklore Archives

Kelly Fitzgerald

The Irish Folklore Commission and the Irish Civil War: Uncertainties in Silence (1923–1935)

Response: Kaisa Langer

The Legacy of Folklore Collections: Navigating Historical Uncertainties and Contemporary Relevance

Response: Dani Schrire

Uncertainty in Folklore and Ethnology in the Age that Trusted in the Future

About Cultural Analysis

Cultural Analysis is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture. The journal features analytical research articles, but also includes notes, reviews, and cross-disciplinary responses.

Established in 2000 in the Berkeley Folklore Archives, Cultural Analysis has published over 19 volumes and hosts a global editorial board and collective.

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    Cultural Analysis is global in scope, with an international editorial board.

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