Research Catalog

Title

Masks and mumming in the Nordic area / edited by Terry Gunnell.

Publication

Uppsala : Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gunnell, Terry, 1955-
• Kungl. Gustav Adolfs akademien (Uppsala, Sweden)

Description

840 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Series Statement

Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi, 0065-0897 ; 98

Uniform Title

Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi ; 98.

Subject

• Geschichte
• Masks > Scandinavia
• Mumming > Scandinavia
• Disguise > Scandinavia
• Masquerades > Scandinavia
• Rites and ceremonies > Scandinavia
• Disguise
• Manners and customs
• Masks
• Masquerades
• Mumming
• Rites and ceremonies
• Maske
• Scandinavia > Social life and customs
• Scandinavia
• Nordeuropa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references p. [771]-812) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Terry Gunnell -- Masks and mumming tradition in Norway: a survey / Christine Eike -- Masks and mumming tradition in Sweden: a survey / Eva Knuts, translated by Sue Glover Frykman -- Masks and mumming tradition in Denmark: a survey / Carsten Bregenhøj and Hanne Pico Larsen -- Masks and mumming traditions in the North Atlantic: a survey / Terry Gunnell -- Masks and mumming tradition in Finland and Karelia: an introductory survey / Urpo Vento, translated by Susan Sinisalo -- Masks and mumming tradition in Estonia: a survey / Ülo Tedre, translated by Maris Leponiemi -- Masks and mumming traditions in Greenland: a survey / Adriënne Heijen -- Talking about the mask of Ærø / Hanne Pico Larsen -- Disguise as ritualized humour in Norway, past and present / Christine Eike -- Eros in disguise: eroticism in mumming interaction / Annikki Kaivola- Bregenhøj, translated by Susan Sinisalo -- Mock brides, hen parties and weddings: changes in time and space / Eva Knuts, translated by Sue Glover Frykman -- Easter witches in Sweden / Fredrik Skott -- "May the star come in?" : the process of tradition in Grimstad, Norway / Ane Ohrvik, translated by Jean Aase -- Changes in the St Knut's Day mumming in Äetsä, Finland / Mari Kulmanen, translated by Susan Sinisalo -- Tjugondag Knut mumming on the Åland Islands, past and present / Siv Ekström and Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch -- Ash bags in the country, costumes in town: Ash Wednesday traditions in Iceland, past and present / Kristín Einarsdóttir -- Elves on the move: midwinter mummings and house-visiting traditions in Iceland / Vilborg Davíđsdóttir -- "Oven breakers": men's ritual visits during the season of Hallowmas and Christmas in Finnish-Karelian communities / Urpo Vento, translated by Sarah Schauss -- The killing of the Christmas goat / Reimund Kvideland -- Mumming in effigy around St Knut's Day in southern Sweden: an example of the popular exercise of justice / Nils-Arvid Bringéus, translated by Alan Crozier -- Carnival in the classroom: Icelandic pre-graduation mumming traditions at the upper-secondary school / Terry Grunnell -- Black elves and orcs in Swedish woods: examples of non-traditional masks in live role-playing games / Bodil Nildin-Wall -- Galoshins: the Scottish death-and-revival play performed by boys at Yule or Hallowe'en / Emily Lyle -- Aspects of the development of the Irish Christmas mummers' play / Séamas Ó Catháin -- Remembering the past: the marketing of tradition in Newfoundland / Paul Smith.

ISBN

• 9185352705
• 9789185352708

OCLC

• ocn183918848
• 183918848
• SCSB-1462030

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library