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- Doesburg, Charlotte, et al.
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‘Have You Heard of Kalevauva.fi Yet?’ : Modern Folklore, Humour, and Gender in the Lyrics of the Finnish Folk Troubadour Duo Kalevauva.fi
- 2023
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Ingår i: Folklore. - : Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum. - 1406-0949. ; 88, s. 69-94
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the lyrics of the Finnish folk duo Kalevauva.fi. The duo uses extracts from online forums and other social media. We argue that this method of song-writing is a prime example of modern folklore as it reflects the collective, anonymous creativity of people and is reminiscent of the compilation of the Finnish national epic Kalevala. The humour in the lyrics is used to create a sense of community and discuss taboos. It rises from incongruity, for example by mismatch between melodies and lyrical content. We relate the lyrics to internet memes, and examine stereotypical and alternative representations of Finnish men. We place Kalevauva.fi in the context of the Kalevala process as well as contemporary music making.
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- Berglund-Lake, Håkan
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Among Others in a World of One’s Own. Appropriation of Space in Modern Apartment Houses in the Early Post-War Period
- 2008
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Ingår i: Folklore. - 1406-0949. ; :39, s. 109-220
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- After the Second World War an intense period of modern housing construction started in Sweden, which suddenly changed the circumstances of everyday life for a great number of the Swedish population. The tenants were offered apartments equipped with central heating, kitchen with fridge and electric cooker, and bathroom with bathtub. These dwellings gave rise to new experiences for everyone who moved in. By ordering their things and establishing new everyday routines and habits, people appropriated this new and unfamiliar space and made it one with their ongoing life. In this process of spatial organisation and routinisation new borderlines were drawn and new meanings were given to categories such as private-public, indoor-outdoor, home-outer world, us and them. Applying a theoretical approach from phenomenology, based on life story interviews with people who experienced these modern apartments in their capacity as the first tenants, the article elucidates how people through their daily habitual actions, in interaction with things and consociates both delimited and positioned themselves in connection with a wider world. Namely, how theyestablished a relationship between private and public realms, home and not-home, inside and outside, “us” and “them”, and, furthermore, how they transformed an unfamiliar space into a familiar place, a place they could call their own.
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- Cocq, Coppélie
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Traditionalisation for Revitalisation : Tradition as a Concept and Practice in Contemporary Sámi Contexts
- 2014
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Ingår i: Folklore. - : Estonian Literary Museum. - 1406-0949. ; 57, s. 80-100
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates the use of ‘tradition’ as a concept in indigenous discourses and as a label of practices within revitalisation processes, using the case of the Sámi in Sweden as an example. By approaching emic applications of the concept, the article aims at emphasising processual and consequential aspects of ‘tradition’.This study illustrates how traditionalisation takes place through the processes of negotiation of identities, globalisation and authority, as well as through the institutionalisation of vernacular practices. It is a double-edged process, including and excluding, which is balanced with creative initiatives striving for keeping traditions alive rather than frozen in time.
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- Eklund, Britt, et al.
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Folk Costumes during the Ritual Year and Changes in Life, in a Parish in Dalecarlia, Sweden : Continuity, Values, Revitalisation
- 2016
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Ingår i: Folklore. - 1406-0949. ; :66, s. 155-164
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the parish of Boda, like in many other parishes in the county of Dalecarlia, there used to be a kind of dressing that was thoroughly local and homogeneous. This dressing tradition was still alive until far into the 20th century. We hesitate to call the dressing folk costume as there were no other clothes besides these locally peculiar garments. Everyone followed the same rules of dressing as well as the variations throughout the year (dressing calendar) and in different stages of life. There were hundreds of rules for how to dress on Christmas Day, during Lent, on Easter Day, on a 'normal' Sunday in the summer and in the winter, on Prayer Days always with differences depending on one's life status: married or not, confirmed or not and of course on different occasions like weddings and Holy Communion, not to mention everyday and working clothes. It was not possible to break the rules, in which every garment had its own meaning and symbol. This very homogeneous dressing has its demographic, social, and economic explanations. The population was extremely homogeneous, every family being land-owners and nobody poorer or richer than anyone else. In the last decades there has been an increasing interest in old clothing traditions, from before the 20th century. The paper will discuss the nature of this growing interest on the basis of rich archival material and a collection of authentic garments from the 19th century.
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- Heith, Anne
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Ethnicity, Cultural Identity and Bordering : A Tornedalian Negro
- 2012
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Ingår i: Folklore. - 1406-0949. ; 52, s. 85-108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines how experiences of internal colonialism may be expressed in literary writing, through an analysis of Bengt Pohjanen's poem Rattipaat (Ragheads). The article discusses the poem and its embedding in a Meankieli (Tornedalian Finnish) grammar book, Meankielen kramatiikki (Pohjanen & Kentta 1996). The theme explored is the tensions arising between homogenising modernity in a Swedish nation-building context and the particular situation of the Tornedalian Finnish minority in northern Sweden. Colonial complicity and vernacular cosmopolitanism are key concepts used in describing these tensions. The article proposes that the poem represents a remapping of the 'national' and the 'international' as allegiances are established between the Swedish national minority of the Tornedalians and migrants in European metropolitan centres. Hence the Tornedalians in the northern borderlands are presented as symbolic citizens in new migrant cartographies. This implies that a new myth of belonging is created, which unifies national minorities with metropolitan migrants.
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- Mjönes, Staffan
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Shaman, psychoanalyst or obstetrician : a critical reading of Claude Levi-Strauss' essay "The efficiency of symbols"
- 2010
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Ingår i: Folklore. - : Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum, Estonian Literary Museum. - 1406-0949. ; :45, s. 7-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article intends to clarify the obstetric, medical-psychological and ethnological credibility of a well-known essay in structural anthropology. Claude Levi-Strauss claims that it is possible to heal a person with an acute, life-threatening, physical, medical condition, in this case a complicated delivery, with purely psychological or magical methods. His reasoning is based on an incomplete source as well as on a grave anatomical misunderstanding. An obstetric analysis of the complete source furthermore shows that the medicine man or shaman uses a combination of a manual intervention, drug treatment and psychological influence. Levi-Strauss' claim must therefore be refuted. The empirical basis is also insufficient for Levi-Strauss' far-reaching conclusions on the topography of the human mind, the function of the subconscious and the comparison between psychoanalysis and shamanism The medicine man is described by Levi-Strauss as a "noble savage". However, Levi-Strauss also points out the importance of the psychological support of the patient in a valuable way.
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- Runcis, Maija, 1952-
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Estonian Diaspora in Sweden : An Analysis of the Collection “Life Destinies” at the Swedish Nordic Museum
- 2020
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Ingår i: Folklore. - 1406-0949. ; 78, s. 105-117
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Runcis demonstrates how the archi- val collection produces a narrative about World War II refugees of Estonian origin in Sweden, which underlines their adaptation to Swedish society at the expense of other elements of identity, most importantly their Estonian identity. The author questions the widespread view generated by several researchers that Estonians as well as other Baltic peoples represent a well-integrated im- migrant group not only in Swedish multicultural society but in other Nordic countries as well (see, e.g., Raag 2004; Kyntäjä 1997). Runcis brings novelty to this discourse primarily due to its unique source material. In addition to interviews with exile Estonians, carried out by the Swedes as the representa- tives of dominant culture, the collection “Life destinies – Estonian diaspora in Sweden” also contains the interviewers’ notes and commentaries on the situa- tion in which the interview was conducted as well as the interviewees’ manner of behaviour, outfit, home design, etc.
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