He was an important investigator in the theory and methods of culture studies. When I began my own studies in ethnomedicine in Finland in 1981, I learned to know him. Living in Turku, he gave me advice at our yearly meetings until 1990's. Studying now musicology in Turku, I am again reading his articles about the practice and theory of ethnographic fieldwork.
I would be interested to know how you see his scientific impact at the moment ?
Piret, thank you. I see Lauri Honko as a specialist in folk narrative and belief systems and their typologies. Because I am myself more interested about field study and material analysis methods, his approaches - although so thoroughly thought and presented - are some far from my own focus area. He encouraged me especially during the first years of my study in the 1980's. I respected him but never got very close to him. - By the way, here at the Turku University, his old "castle", Fennicum, is not anymore the place for Turku folklorists. They have moved to an other building nearby.
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