Titel: Researcher    Address:   Finnish Literature Society, Folklore Archive (Joensuu), P.O. Box 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu, Finland    Tel:   +358-(0)13-2512467    Fax:   +358-(0)13-2514606    Email:  Links:   jyrki.poysa@finlit.fi Finnish Literature Society   Research: Reseach in history and traditions of forest work. Dissertation, based on folklore archive sources, focused on the social classification of lumberjacks in a regional context (Eastern Finland). Present interests: the expressive culture of the lumber camps and interpretation of different folklore phenomena. 1999-2000 has also done fieldwork (oral history interviews and visual documentation) among Russian Karelians about local forestry history during the Soviet time.   Publications include: Dissertation: Pöysä, J. (1997) Jätkän synty: Tutkimus sosiaalisen kategorian muotoutumisesta suomalaisessa kulttuurissa ja itäsuomalaisessa metsätyöperinteessä. Summary: The birth of the lumberjack: the historical formation of a social category in Finnish culture and Eastern Finnish folklore about lumberjacks (jätkä). Helsinki, SKS. Articles: Pöysä, J. (1999) Sanan voimalla savotassa: Metsä- ja uittotyömaiden sananparret työsuhteiden kuvastajina. In Parikka, R. (ed) Suomalaisen työn historiaa: Korvesta konttoriin. Helsinki, SKS. Pöysä, J. (1999) Variation in Archived Anecdotes. Folklore Fellows' Summer School 1999 preprints no. 23. Turku, FFSS. Pöysä, J. (2000), Savotan musiikillinen maisema. To be published in Vuosilusto 98-99. Punkaharju, The Finnish Forest Museum. Pöysä, J. (2000), Jätkä ja suomalainen maskuliinisuus. To be published in journal Työväentutkimus.

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