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- Gradén, Lizette, 1966-
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Crafting Nordic Spaces in Scandinavian in the United States
- 2011
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Ingår i: Current Issues in European Cultural Studies. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 9789175199931 ; , s. 277-284
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- How are Nordic Spaces crafted in the Nordic Countries and in the United States? How do such spaces give shape to cultural heritage? Drawing on theories of materialization and ritual performance; this paper discusses vernacular gifts as a form of materializing relationships; crafting bonds and delimiting boundaries between regions and museums in the wake of migration. By highlighting vernacular gifts from individuals and groups to Scandinavian museums in the United States; I would like to address how gift exchange maps out boundaries; between inside and outside; below and above; distant and close; near and far. The paper will show how gift exchange plays a creative role when Scandinavian museums craft relationships with particular regions; nations; and areas recognized as Scandinavia and Norden.
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- Gradén, Lizette, 1966-
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Dressed in a Present from the Past : The Transfers and Transformations of a Swedish Bridal Crown in the United States
- 2010
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Ingår i: Culture Unbound. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 2000-1525. ; 2, s. 695-717
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ever since the emigration from the Nordic countries the Old world and the New world have maintained an exchange of ideas, customs, and material culture. This cultural heritage consists of more than remnants of the past. Drawing on theories of material culture and performance this article highlights the role of gifts in mate-rializing relationships between individuals, families and organizations in the wake of migration. First, I build on a suggested coinage of the term heritage gifts as a way of materializing relationships. Thereafter, I map out the numerous roles which a Swedish bridal crown play in the United States: as museum object, object of display and loaned to families for wedding ceremonies in America. The trans-fers and transformations of the bridal crown enhances a drama of a migration her-itage. This dynamic drama brings together kin in Sweden and America and maps specific locations into a flexible space via the trajectory of crown-clad female bodies.
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- Gradén, Lizette, 1966-
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Performing a Present from the Past : The Värmland Heritage Gift, Materialized Emotions and Cultural Connectivity
- 2010
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Ingår i: Ethnologia Europaea. - : Berghahn Books. - 0425-4597 .- 1604-3030. ; 40:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on actor-network theory and theories of performance, this article discusses gift-giving as an expansive form of materializing relationships and delimiting boundaries between nations, regions, organizations and individuals in the wake of migration. Initially, I discuss gift-giving as a way of materializing relationships and building networks. Thereafter, I map out the social life of the Värmland Gift to America, a collection donated by the Värmland province in Sweden to the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis in 1952. I suggest the coinage of heritage gift as a term to describe gifts with dense biographies which contain and enact multiple performances that simultaneously create and recreate the idea of gift-giving in its role as an activity that binds people together. The analysis of the Värmland Gift shows how such a heritage gift kept on the move over time involves not one but a series of performances which have fostered dynamic transatlantic relationships for over fifty years.
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