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Gamla kartor och nya världar: Om migration och platsskapande
Get PDFThe ability to create place is vital for people who have settled in new lands and wish to ensure cultural survival. This article describes and analyzes some of the symbolic practices and techniques through which transnational migrants transform unmarked spaces and create places charged with special meaning. Three cases are in focus. The first is a commemorative ritual in which Russian-speakers in Estonia â i.e. members of a former occupational power â transform a central urban space into their own place. The second concerns informal place-naming practices in a rural North American community founded by Swedish settlers in 1870. In this case features of the old country map are laid over the grid pattern created by American surveyors; in the 1990s the names continued to serve as reminders of a Swedish past. The third case is part of the celebration of the New Year (Nawruz) during which Iranian immigrants in Sweden transform an ordinary Swedish shopping mall (âa non-placeâ) and a football field into festive Iranian places charged with special meaning.âââIn all these re-territorializations, mental or actual maps formed in the old country are superimposed upon unmarked spaces in the new land and are given long-term significance through repetitions in rituals or daily life. Central to each of them is a sustained effort to maintain cultural survival
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Get PDF«Korleis held me på variasjon som ein viktig del av folkemusikken i ei tid der musikken kan reproduserast i detalj med datamaskinen?» Spørsmålet vart stilt under seminaret til Norsk folkemusikklag, som i år vart halde på Ole Bull Akademiet på Voss og hadde temaet «Teknologi». Dette spørsmålet viser ei mogleg utfordring ved det å bruka teknologi til å læra folkemusikk, og korleis teknologien kan vera med på å endra tradisjonen. På den andre sida representerer ny teknologi òg nye moglegheiter i formidling av, og forsking på, folkemusikken. Dei to første artiklane i 2014-utgåva av Musikk og tradisjon baserer seg på innlegg frå seminaret
Teknologien og tradisjonen: Noter og opptak, nok en gang
Get PDFThe paper discusses the use and effects on traditional music by the introduction of the technologies of music notation and music recording. Both of these technologies imply fixation and, therefore, also the possibility of recreation of a (musical) event split from its origin. Reference is made to Lordâs discussion of orality vs. literacy, and also to Schaferâs concept of schizophonia. Both these authors see the technologies in a perspective of cultural pessimism that is not shared by this author. The aim of the article is, therefore, not to argue for caution on the use of technologies nor to argue that traditional music becomes less âauthenticâ through the use of technology, but to describe in more detail possible views of the co-development of use of technology and change in aesthetic focus. Specifically it is argued that there might be a shift from a predominantly art-of-work orientation in the mid 19th century to a more performance-focused contemporary orientation
"Ja, vi tror på Snåsamannen"
Get PDFIn 2008, Gyldendal publishing house and the author Ingar Sletten Kolloen presented a biography about an 83-year-old clairvoyant healer called Snåsamannen. After publication, the media became aware of the man with the healing hands, and Snåsamannen was interviewed by various newspapers, and on television and radio stations. The book became a best-seller, and the massive attention in the media shows that folk medicine is a living part of our society. Previously stories about folk medicine have mostly been transmitted orally, and people have talked about their experiences in private. Today, both women and men talk openly to the media, about their encounters with healing and folk medicine , and during the last year many different types of newspapers have written about Snåsamannen
Redaksjonelt
Get PDFÃrets siste nummer av Tidsskrift for kulturforskning foreligger, og vi tilbyr tre artikler og en bokmelding som vi håper fremstår som spennende og interessante inntak til fagene våre. Den første artikkelen handler om skolehus. Leidulf Mydland skriver i artikkelen âSkolehuset som kulturminne: Lokale verdier og nasjonal kulturminneforvaltningâ om hvordan kulturminner tilskrives verdi i lokal kontekst. Overgangen til neste artikkel er stor. Håvard Hellerud Knoff skriver om fotball i âSportspolitisk sammenblanding av nasjonsbygging og kommersialisering i ikke-vestlige landâ. Her ser vi hvordan økonomiske og politiske motiver styrer disse sportslige mega events. Overgangen til den tredje og siste artikkel er også stor. Susanne Nylund Skogs âI det idela födandets gränsland. Normalisering av förlossningsberättelser i Sverige på 1990-taletâ har et folkloristisk fokus på hvordan tausheter og tale er med til å konstituere normalitet.Nummeret avsluttes med en bokmelding og en takk til de mange konsulenter som har vært med til å muliggjøre dette tidsskriftet i 2011
Nye rammer til glemte kunstverk
Get PDFHanne Weisser begir seg ut på et ambisiøst prosjekt når hun i Folkevisenes fortellinger. Helter, helgener, hverdagens hendelser vil kontekstualisere, analysere og reflektere over bruken av norske folkeviser i formidÂlingssammenheng. Det er et arbeid med et i utgangspunktet enormt omfang tekst- og melodimateriale. Ikke desto mindre er det et prosjekt Weisser fullfører, og resultatet er et lett tilgjengelig, kreativt og grensesprenÂgende verk om et lite utvalg spennende fortellinger som av mange grunner sjelden blir gitt oppmerksomhet
Birgitte Kragh 2003. Til jord skal du blive⦠Dødens og begravelsens kulturhisÂtorie i Danmark 1780-1990.
Get PDFDansk museumsvesen har gjennom mange år vist en betydelig vitalitet når det gjelder å igangsette og opprettholde dokumentasjon av forskning. Noen febrilsk fokusering på såkalt samtidsdokumentasjon â som man har sett tendenser til innenfor svensk og norsk museumsvirksomhet â har det imidlertid ikke vært snakk om. De danske âmuseumspuljerâ har utenfra sett hatt den fordel at de har vokst ut fra interesser ved de ulike museer og museumsmiljøer, og dermed har det blitt en betydelig spredning både tematisk og historisk når det gjelder hva de ulike âpuljeneâ har konsentrert seg om
Elden eller evigheten?
Get PDFThis article concerns collections, acquired by Swedes in the Congo State (1885-1908), and housed today at the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm and the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg. Museum items are approached in this article, not primarily as tokens of Congolese material culture, but as traces of cultural history involving Swedes as much as Congolese, and as points of entry to a critical museology. Drawing on case studies of collections created by men and women with differing roles in the colonial process, I discuss the ways in which artefacts have been selected, joined and charged with new functions and meanings in collections and museums of ethnography. My points of departure are a selected amount of objects that, analytically, have worked as what Roland Barthes (1980) calls punctum: the detail that disturbs and fascinates by force of seeming ungrammatical in relation to the larger context of which it forms part. Examining objects by hand, has allowed for an interpretive process inspired by all senses. By referring to the exemplified punctums as material, I want to stress the analytical and critical benefits to be gained by working with (virtually untouchable) museum items as multisensory phenomena
Norsk kulturhistorie i kontekst – et bidrag til genealogien
Get PDFThe article endeavours to give a broad historiographical overview of cultural history in Norway and to some extent in Scandinavia, covering a century from ca. 1880. The point of departure is the jungle of variants of ‘new cultural history’ and the fact that the roots of Scandinavian cultural history deviate considerably from other national traditions. The text briefly reviews the different concepts of culture as a background and then discusses the work of three Scandinavian pioneers who all published around 1880 (Troels Troels-Lund, August Strindberg and Yngvar Nielsen). Next is presented the local history move-ment with its academic elite researchers and its broad grass-root movement, as well as the open-air museum ‘paradigm’. The focus then shifts to the rich written literature of cultural history and the voluminous book series published during the century, some of them with a national Norwegian scope, some with a Nordic scope, and one with a global scope. Finally the text presents brief outlines of the two foremost cultural history disciplines (in addition to history and art history), namely ethnology and folklore. In all these fields and across these arenas of cultural history, with their porous frontiers and overlapping approaches, the Norwegian tradition appears as closely knit to themes like popular tradi-tions and beliefs, customs and usage, material culture, everyday life and work. It also appears that the roots of cultural history blend with national and local identity projects and a political nationalism
Sagnet om Steggel-Anna. Samisk fortid i norsk folkeÂminne og folkeglemsel
No full textThe old court books from Senjen in northern Norway bear witness of a trial from 1749, where three local people; two men and a young girl, were sentenced to death for the brutal murder of two young Sámi men. They were later beheaded near the place where the misdeed had been committed, and their heads were put on stakes, according to the law at that time. This historic incident became the raw material of several legends in the area, but the content and the perspectives of these narratives relate very different versions of what had happened, especially in relation to the possible ethnic conflicts between Sámi and Norwegians in the area. The article discusses this as different narrative strategies in coping with a situation where many people had a mixed ethnic background, and open ethnic conflicts between Sámi and Norwegians were evaded