Letonica Nr. 14

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

• Dace Bula. Latvia's regions: Traditions, texts, identities

ARTICLES

• Anda Beitāne. Traditional singing in Northern Latgale: Contexts, personalities, variants
• Sanita Bērziņa-Reinsone. Wedding in Northern Vidzeme in ten Adam’s stories
• Mārtiņš Boiko. Traditional music of Latgale and Lalgalian identity
• Ieva Garda. Stories of personal experience in aspect of modern folklore: Case of Alsunga
• Lilija Jakubenoka. Mythological stones and folk-tales connected with them - witnesses about the chtonic deities
• Angelika-Juško Štekele. Ethnic stereotypes in Latgalian folklore
• Baiba Krogzeme-Mosgorda. The archive of the Salacgrīva museum in folklorists' perspective
• Aigars Lielbārdis. Sorcerers’ tradition in modern-day Latgale
• Ieva Maiga Markausa. Characteristic features of a time-period in children's games and plays
• Elga Melne. A collection of folklore materials as a reflection of regional characteristics
• Guntis Pakalns. Lives of some ghost stories from Džūkste
• Ieva Pīgozne-Brinkmane. Costume of the late iron age in Vidzeme today
• Aldis Pūtelis. The one's own and the aliens: Drawing of the mythological border
• Una Smilgaine. Children's folklore in Aizpute: A field study
• Iveta Tāle. Das traditionelle Singen als Bestandteil der Identität Nordlettgallens
• Rita Treija. Texts structure of Latvian epitaphs: Main outlines
• Māra Vīksna. Collecting folklore material in Sventāja
• Ieva Vītola. Money stones in Latgale

REVIEW OF THE LATEST LITERATURE

• Māra Vīksna. New collection of folklore from Latvia's regions
• Anda Beitāne. Folklore at school
• Māra Vīksna. Crown to life-work and love
  
• Beatrise Reidzāne. Goddesses... from ancient times or the Middle Age?
  

PERSONALIA

• Dace Bula. Melnis, a folklorist
• A magnificent and rich anniversary
• Salute to Jadviga Darbiniece

SCHOLARLY LIFE

• Jolanta Upeniece. A dissertation on totemic symbolism in Latvian folksongs
• Sandis Laime. An expedition to Latvian villages in Siberia

CONFERENCES

• Ieva Vītola. Researchers of folktales meet in Iceland
• Jolanta Upeniece. A conference of Letonists at the University of Latvia
• Māra Zirnīte. Cooperation between the researchers of oral history from the Baltics and the Nordic countries
  
• Aldis Pūtelis. From Wunderhorn to the Internet
  
• Inta Gāle-Karpentere. Regular conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
  

IN MEMORIAM

• Māra Vīksna. In memoriam Jānis Rozenbergs

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