Lauri Honko

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Lauri Honko (born March 6, 1932 in Hanko ; † July 15, 2002 in Turku ) was a Finnish folklorist and religious scholar and co-founder of empirical cultural research in Scandinavia .

Career

Honko received his doctorate in 1959 with the work disease projectiles. Investigation into a primal declaration of illness at the University of Helsinki . From 1961 to 1963 he was a lecturer in folklore and comparative religious studies there , then became an associate professor for these two subjects at the University of Turku and finally a full professor in 1971 . In 1996 he retired . In 1998 he founded the Kalevala Institute at the University of Turku for the planning, execution and publication of studies on international epics as well as on epic and ritual poetry.

From 1972 he was director of the Nordic Institute of Folklore in Turku ( NIF ; facility for the coordination and promotion of research into folk traditions in Scandinavia) and from 1974 to 1989 President of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research . In addition, he was editor-in-chief of the Folklore Fellows' Communications (from 1969), of Temenos (1965 to 1968, 1975 to 1990), the NIF Newsletter (from 1972) and of Studia Fennica (1981 to 1989).

In 1990, as head of a Finnish-Indian research group at Udupi in the southwest of the Indian state of Karnataka, he recorded the tulus-language epic Siri paddana , which forms the basis for the annual Siri jatre ritual of possession . The entire text was published in 1998 in two volumes.

Publications

  • Disease projectiles: investigation into a primordial explanation of disease. Helsinki 1959 (Folklore Fellows' communications, 178.)
  • Belief in ghosts in Ingermanland. Helsinki 1962. (Folklore Fellows' communications, 185.)
  • Textualizing the Siri epic. Helsinki 1998. (Folklore Fellows' communications, 264. Vol. 118.)
  • Together with Chinnapa Gowda, Viveka Rai, Anneli Honko (eds.): The Siri Epic as performed by Gopala Naika I – II. (Folklore Fellows' Communications 265–6.) Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1998. ISBN 951-41-0814-0

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SURNAME Honko, Lauri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish folklorist and religious scholar as well as co-founder of empirical cultural research in Scandinavia
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanko
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 2002
Place of death Turku