as a folklorist, i teach and research on a range of topics having to do with the way people think about and use the idea of tradition in their lives. most of my research focuses on nordic cultures, especially finnish and sami, although i am increasingly interested in the relations of nordic peoples with populations and ideas coming from elsewhere, particularly the celtic world.
Some of my research is available in open access format at my Academia.edu address:
https://wisc.academia.edu/ThomasADuBois
Below are the covers of my books. Click on any of the topics listed to the right to read more about my work on these topics.
Research Topics:
Books:
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Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala. New York: Garland Publications, 1995. |
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Nordic Religions in the Viking Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. |
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co-authored with Leea Virtanen. Finnish Folklore. Studia Fennica Folkloristica 9. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society in association with the University of Washington Press, 2000. |
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Lyric, Meaning and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2006. |
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edited. Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. |
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An Introduction to Shamanism. Introduction to Religion. Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
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co-edited with Susan Brantly. The Nordic Storyteller: Essays in Honour of NIels Ingwersen. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. |
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Translated. Johan Turi. An Account of the Sámi. Chicago: Nordic Studies Press, 2011. |
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