"Culture Change and Worldview: Finno-Ugrians, Siberian Indigenous Peoples and the Others" will be held between 1st-3rd of October, 2004, in Tartu. The aim of the conference is to discuss different approaches to the interrelationship of worldview and culture change in different areas inhabited by Finno-Ugric peoples and small peoples of the Russian North. During the 20th century, political, social and cultural changes have influenced the life and survival of many Finno-Ugric and Siberian indigenous communities. At the same time the claims have been made that worldview has central position in peoples' mentality, one of the most stable parts of culture. So we try to find different ways for interpretating these two seemingly contradictory areas of culture. But at the same time, interrelationship between these two fields is complex and can not be easily explained by taken-for-granted scientific models. We hope that contributions to the conference will add some new insights to this problematics and afterwards we can go further in studies on folk mentality and worldview with better awareness about our ways of treating some important questions concerning change and stability in culture. Info: professor Art Leete, art.leete[at]ut.ee Etnoloogia õppetool Ülikooli 16 EE-50090 TARTU telefon (+372) 7375654 with the support of Finnish Institute in Estonia
