“Lest They Go Hungry”: Negotiations on Money and Survival

Tiina Seppä is a post-doctoral researcher in the Karelian Institute at the University of Eastern Finland. Her dissertation (2015) focuses on the project of collecting and producing folk poetry in Finland. In her ongoing research, which is part of the project “Russia as a Field and an Archive: Constructing Finnishness among Ethnographers of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Finland” (funded by the Academy of Finland and led by docent Jyrki Pöysä), she examines the processes and the material and immaterial conditions of National Romanticism and nation-making through the folklore collecting project. Seppä has also worked as the editor-in-chief of Elore, an open-access journal of folklore studies (2015–16). At the moment, Seppä is the president of the Finnish Folklore Society. In addition to several scholarly articles, Seppä has also written four artistic manuscripts based on the research for the Finnish Broadcasting Company, to explore and to broaden the understanding concerning folklore archives.