Approaching Methodology

Description

Second revised edition with an introduction by Ulrika Wolf-Knuts. The eighteen articles of "Approaching Methodology" open broadly international and cross-disciplinary discussions on different aspects of methods and methodology. This volume brings many complementary perspectives on approaching and analyzing aspects of culture and cultural expression into dialogue, especially from fields of folklore studies, ethnology, philology, medieval studies, linguistics and semiotics. The introduction will be valuable for students and young scholars who are trying to orient themselves amid the questions, challenges and potentials associated with methods and methodologies. Preface and Acknowledgements 5 Introduction 13 Ulrika Wolf-Knuts / The Omnipresent Method 15 Part I: Method in Practice 39 Method in Practice: An Introduction 41 Frog (in collaboration with Pauliina Latvala) / Opening Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue: A Virtual Workshop on Methodology 49 Espen Suenson / Method and Fieldwork in a Hermeneutical Perspective 69 Jill Bradley / Building a Visual Vocabulary: The Methodology of 'Reading' Images in Context 83 Frog / The Parallax Approach: Situating Traditions in Long-Term Perspective 99 Sonja Peterson-Lewis / The Ghost of Methodologies Past: untangling Methods, Methodologies, and Methodologists in Black Studies 131 Part II: Constructing Data 153 Constructing Data: An Introduction 155 Francisco Martínez Ibarra / Qualitative Research and the Study of Language Use and Attitudes 161 Venla Sykäri / Dialogic Methodology and the Dialogic Space Created 'after' an Interview 171 Erin Michelle Goeres / Editing Skaldic Verse and the Problem of Prosimetra 185 Dani Schrire / Ethnographic Questionnaires: After Method, after Questions 201 Part III: Culturally Sensitive Reading 213 Culturally Sensitive Reading: An Introduction 215 Rebecca M. C. Fisher / The Anglo-Saxon Charms: Texts in Context 221 Pauliina Latvala & Kirsi Laurén / The Sensitive Interpretation of Emotions: Methodological Perspectives on Studying Meanings in Oral History Texts 249 Thelma Lazo-Flores / Design 'Poiesis': An Inquiry on Outcomes in the Use of Method and Methodology 267 Helen F. Leslie / Younger Icelandic Manuscripts and Old Norse Studies 287 Fjodor Uspenskij / Ferocious Beast ('óarga dýr') between North and East 311 Part IV: Function, structure and statistics 323 Function, Structure and Statistics: An Introduction 325 Emily Osborne / Categorising Christ within an Age-'ǫld' Paradigm: The 'kenning System' and Shifting Cultural Referents 331 Haukur Þorgeirsson / Poetic Formulas in Late Medieval Icelandic Folk Poetry: The Case of 'Vambarljóð' 347 Mathias Nordvig / A Method for Analyzing World-Models in Scandinavian Mythology 377 Vladimir Glukhov & Natalia Glukhova / A System of Techniques and Stratagems for Outlining a Traditional Ethnic Identity 399 Indices 413