The Storytelling Human

Lina Būgienė is a researcher in Lithuanian traditional and contemporary folk narratives, oral history, and folk belief. She is the author of over two dozen scholarly articles and co-author of two edited collections (in Lithuanian) on local identity and folk memory.

Foreword
Part One. HISTORY AND TRADITION IN A CHANGING WORLD
1. Predominant Modes of Perception and Folk Narrative, Aelita Kensminienė
2. Taking Shelter in Memoir Amid the Turmoil of History: Reconstructing Mental Landscapes in Autobiographical Narratives, Radvilė Racėnaitė
3. The Dead Want to Come Home: Stories about the Repatriation of Siberian Deportee Remains to Lithuania, Daiva Vaitkevičienė
4. Borderland Lives: Historical Reflections in Eastern Lithuanian Life Stories, Lina Būgienė
Part Two. TRADITIONAL FOLKLORE AND MODERNITY
5. Life in Folktales or Folktales in Life? How Storytellers Influence Folk Traditions, Jūratė Šlekonytė
6. The Contemporary Consumer and Creator of Proverbs, or Why Do We Need Proverbs Today?, Dalia Zaikauskienė
7. Homo ridens: The Joking Human in Lithuania from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Centuries, Salomėja Bandoriūtė
8. Between Culture and Subculture: The Case of Lithuania's Basketball Fans, Povilas Krikščiūnas
Bibliography
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