Reconstructing the Past and the Present: the Ethnographic Films Made by the Estonian National Museum (1961–1989) Liivo Niglas, Eva Toulouze To cite this version: Liivo Niglas, Eva Toulouze. Reconstructing the Past and the Present: the Ethnographic Films Made by the Estonian National Museum (1961–1989): Reconstruire le passé et le présent: les films ethno- graphiques réalisés par le Musée national estonien (1961–1989). Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, University of Tartu, Estonian National Museum and Estonian Literary Museum., 2010, 4 (2), pp.79-96. hal-01276198 HAL Id: hal-01276198 https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01276198 Submitted on 19 Feb 2016 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. RECOnstruCtinG THE PAst AND THE Present: THE ETHNOGR APHIC Films MADE BY THE EstOniAN NAtiONAL Museum (1961–1989) LIIVO NIGLAS MA, Researcher Department of Ethnology Institute for Cultural Research and Fine Arts University of Tartu Ülikooli 18, 50090, Tartu, Estonia e-mail:
[email protected] EVA TOULOUZE PhD Hab., Associate Professor Department of Central and Eastern Europe Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) 2, rue de Lille, 75343 Paris, France e-mail:
[email protected] ABstrACT This article* analyses the films made by the Estonian National Museum in the 1970s and the 1980s both from the point of view of the filming activity and of the content of these films.