TY - BOOK ID - 80731672 TI - The Theory of Culture of Folklorist Lauri Honko, 1932-2002 AU - Kamppinen, Matti AU - Hakamies, Pekka PY - 2013 SN - 0773417990 9780773417991 9780773445437 0773445439 PB - Lewiston The Edwin Mellen Press DB - UniCat KW - Folklore. KW - Folklorist. KW - Honko, Lauri. KW - Culture KW - Folklore KW - Religion and sociology KW - Sociology & Social History KW - Social Sciences KW - Social Change KW - Religion and society KW - Religious sociology KW - Society and religion KW - Sociology, Religious KW - Sociology and religion KW - Sociology of religion KW - Sociology KW - Folk beliefs KW - Folk-lore KW - Traditions KW - Ethnology KW - Manners and customs KW - Material culture KW - Mythology KW - Oral tradition KW - Storytelling KW - Cultural studies KW - Study and teaching UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80731672 AB - Lauri Honko (1932-2002), the Finnish professor of folkloristics and comparative religion was a prolific and multitalented researcher, whose topics of research ranged from the study of folk beliefs, folk medicine and Ingrian laments to the general theories of culture, identity and meaning. He studied Finno-Ugric mythologies, Karelian and Tanzanian folk healing, and South Indian oral traditions. In this book we aim at explicating and analyzing his methodological assumptions as well as his specific theoretical contributions in the study of religion and folklore. Our central focus is on Honko's tr ER -