Letonica Nr. 16

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

• Dace Bula. Childhood experience: Cultural aspects

ARTICLES

• Dace Bula. Fishermen's children: Channels of experience in narrated memories of Mangaļsala inhabitants
• Iveta Dukaļska. Children’s opportunities to learn playing music in the 1940s-1960s
• Angelika Juško-Štekele. Repercussions of infanticide in Latgalian folklore
• Baiba Krogzeme-Mosgorda. Memories about childhood in a Purvciems backyard in the 1940s—1950s
• Iveta Leitāne. Die religiösen Komponenten des Kindheitskonstruktes und sein intensionaler Gebrauch um die Jahrhundertwende (19.-20. Jh.) in Lettland
• Ieva Marga Markausa. Assessment of childhood games and plays in adults' memories
• Elga Melne. Finger names in children's folklore
• Gatis Ozoliņš. Dievturi baptism ritual
• Inga Sarma. Children's toys, games and hobbies in the 20th century
• Ilva Skulte. Children and reading: myths, texts and popular culture
  
• Una Smilgaine. Traditions of children’s hair thrashing in the past and in modern times
  
• Bārbala Stroda. Maturation of the childlike hero: Changes of the fairy-tale canon in the latest children fantasy literature
  
• Rita Treija. Analogues of baptism rituals in Soviet traditions
  
• Māra Vīksna. Vilma Greble - a life dedicated to science and children
  

REVIEWS

• Rūta Muktupāvela. Collection "Cultural Intersections" [Kultūras krustpunkti. 3. laidiens]
• Māra Vīksna. Beginning of the Aknīste Encyclopaedia [V. Ancītis. Aknīstes grāmata II]
• Beatrise Reidzāne. Heritage of Umurga [Senos laikos Umurgā. Ed. E. Melne]
• Dace Bula. The rich colours of a mirror image [Dzīvesstāsti: vēsture, kultūra, sabiedrība]

SCHOLARLY LIFE

• Sandis Laime. Belarus - the distant and the close
• Rita Treija. Expedition "In the Footsteps of Courland's Ķoniņi" in Turlava and its area
• Dace Bula. Doctoral theses in ethno-musicology
• Anda Beitāne. First year of the new studies program "Ethno-Musicology" at the Latvian Academy of Music
• Ilze Stikāne. "White Wolf's Books" - a program for the development of children and youth literature in Latvia
• Janta un Ilmārs Meži. On a follower of folksong traditions from Sventāja

CONFERENCES

• Una Smilgaine. Eduard Wolteris' conference in St. Petersburg
• Māra Zirnīte, Baiba Krogzeme-Mosgorda. Memories and the narrative: oral history studies in the North European context
• Jolanta Stauga. Lettonists meet at the 65th conference of the University of Latvia
• Aigars Lielbārdis. Gathering of the researchers of sorcery traditions
• Rita Treija. International academic conference in Tartu

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