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This reprint of a collection of articles addresses the challenges
that European ethnology is facing. Representing a variety of
localities, they give new insights and perspectives to the
importance of doing empirical fieldwork and of seeing the emergence
of new patterns as well as the remaking of old ones.
"Explains brilliantly the structures and processes of middle-class
culture in historical perspective."--Robert Nye, Rutgers University
" This] illuminating study of the Swedish middle class around the
turn of the century . . . is one welcome sign that bourgeois, too,
are once again recognized as parts of society worth studying . . .
to be understood rather than to be savaged. Culture Builders is a
welcome sign of yet another development: the ease with which
historical studies may be integrated with neighboring
disciplines."--Journal of Modern History "The authors take an
impressively broad intellectual perspective. . . . The everyday
routines of bourgeoisie, peasantry, and working class are
dramatically portrayed through a skillful weaving together of
excerpts from ethnological archives, schoolbooks, memoirs, novels,
and etiquette manuals . . . provides insight into the sociocultural
complexities, conflicts, and contradictions that are ignored in
widely held national stereotypes."--American Anthropologist "Unites
historical and ethnological approaches so as to present a way of
life that will be of interest not only to scholars of Scandinavia
but to historians, sociologists, and everyone trying to describe
and interpret the bourgeois Western culture during the nineteenth
century."--Ethnos Jonas Frykman and Orvar Lofgren teach in the
Department of European Ethnology at the University of Lund, Sweden.
Some objects stand out as personal and important to us. A packed
suitcase, an inherited vase, the remains from a humanitarian aid
package - things can induce affects. In this book the authors focus
on material culture and on practice - on what affect does. Some of
them place the issue of sensitivity in a wider from of professional
interest in innovation and culture-tourism. The volume is a
contribution to the upcoming field of affect research that has so
far has been mainly explored psychology and cultural studies. In
their texts the ethnologists and anthropologists involved show how
established ways of analysing culture benefit from achievements in
this field. They use fieldwork to examine how people project
affects onto material objects and explore how objects trigger
affects. The editors hope that this book will be read across
disciplines, not only to promote the value of ethnographic work,
but also to encourage theoretically informed creative empirical
approaches to affect and material culture.
A group of ethnologists and anthropologists demonstrate creative
ways of relating phenomenology to the study of culture. In a
detailed introduction the reader is given an overview of how
perspectives like 'being' and 'life-world' can be applied to
studies of everyday life. The historical background as well as the
value of fieldwork and the importance of simply 'being there' are
also presented. Seven scholars write-about diaspora,
multiculturalism, xenophobia, and violence; about Nordic theme
parks, European regionalism, and the celebration of national
holidays. Experience, body, emotions, place, action and material
culture are key concepts in this book. The authors show how culture
can be understood from how it 'happens', more than what it 'is',
how the world became filled with meanings rather than
interpretations. The book is intended for a broad spectrum of
readers within the fields of cultural and behavioural sciences.
Contributors include Nils Gilje, professor of philosophy and
cultural studies, Michael Jackson, renowned professor of
anthropology, and Jonas Frykman, professor of ethnology.
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