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Torghandlaren i Stockholm
Get PDFThis article is based on fieldwork carried out among men working in a food and vegetable market in Stockholm. The focus is on oral and bodily practices in the market. My theoretical tools for the interpretations come from gender and post-colonial studies. Keywords are masculinities, practices, positions and situations. I have worked with and interviewed men to get their view of their encounters with people at the market. The examples in the article focus on male strategies and practices. The purpose of this study is to investigate how concepts such as gender, ethnicity, âwhiteâ and âblackâ masculinity are used and become relevant in these encounters
Kurt Braunmüller & Christoph Gabriel (eds.): Multilingual individuals and multilingual societies.
Get PDFMultilingualism is a fundamental characteristic of modern society. As highlighted by the editors of the volume, Kurt Braunmüller and Christoph Gabriel, in contemporary reality multilingualism is far more prevalent than monolingualism on a global scale represented by a variety of phenomena like diglossia, plurilingualism or receptive bilingualism. Multilingualism has been studied by linguists, psychologists, educational professionals, and social scientists, all of whom have endeavored to generate the state-of-the-art scientific understanding that may disclose potential and challenges that multilingualism poses for the individual in the context of her family, school, other institutions, and society in general. Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies is the thirteenth book volume published in the series Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism. The present book volume provides a multidimensional perspective on contemporary research in multilingualism with a special focus on individual and societal aspects of this phenomenon. The volume consists of 25 contributions organized into three thematic blocks: (1) the acquisition of multilingualism, (2) historical aspects of multilingualism and variance, and (3) multilingual communication. Each block addresses a variety of issues as they relate to language acquisition, language change and language use in multilingual settings
Semantiske og pragmatiske aspekter ved trykklett visst
Get PDFI denne artikkelen ser vi på betydningen til trykklett visst og viser hvordan man kan utføre korpusundersøkelser av semantiske og pragmatiske aspekter ved denne typen ikke-sannhetsfunksjonelle ord. Vi foreslår at de mange bruksmåtene for ordet kan sammenfattes under ett semantisk oppslag, og med utgangspunkt i relevansteorien (Sperber & Wilson 1995) viser vi hvordan denne semantikken interagerer med generelle prinsipper for pragmatisk beriking og fører til ulike fortolkninger i ulike kontekster. Vi hevder videre at enkelte pragmatisk betingede fortolkninger av visst opptrer så systematisk at de utgjør det Ariel (2008; 2010) kaller âprominente diskursmønstreâ, og vi argumenterer for at det å identifisere prominente diskursmønstre er viktig i studier av denne typen ord
Jon Røyne Kyllingstad 2004: Kortskaller og langskaller. Fysisk antropologi i Norge og striden om det nordiske herremennesket
Get PDFJon Røyne Kyllingstad har omarbeidet hovedoppgaven sin fra 2001 til boken Kortskaller og langskaller: Fysisk antropologi i Norge og striden om det nordiske herremennesket. Bak den omfattende tittelen finnes en godt dokumentert og godt fortalt historie om en utdødd vitenskapsgren som i sin tid hadde stor legitimitet. Om man i tillegg tar i betraktning at det nettopp er en hovedoppgave som ligger bak, er det et ganske imponerende stykke arbeid. Fysisk antroÂpologi var den delen av antropologien som kombinerte komparasjon og morfologi i sin innfallsvinkel til mennesket, og som i tillegg kunne legge et historisk perspektiv til denne innfallsvinkelen. Det vil si at den vitenskapelige metoden bestod i en samÂmenligning av menneskers fysiologiske form, særlig i forhold til hodets form, og på bakgrunn av denne sammenligningen en dedusering av menneskehetens utvikling. Den fysiske antropologien hadde gjerne i tillegg en normativ slagside, i og med at utviklingens foreløpige høydepunkt bestod av hvite og lyshårede nordeuropeiske menn (av den langskallede typen). De fysiske antropologene befant seg selv gjerne i denne gruppen
Kuriositeternes storhed, fald og mulige genkomst
Get PDFIn the early history of museums the collection and study of curiosities became an independent scholarly project. Later the understanding of curiosity was transformed in such a way that it eventually came to stand for the opposite, viz., anything ridiculous and non-scientific. The aim of this article is to show how and why this transformation took place. Taking the learned Danish antiquarian, naturalist and physician Ole Worm (1588-1654) and his famous curiosity cabinet in Copenhagen as the point of departure, the story of the rise, fall and reinvention of the curious object in the history of museums will be unfolded. The story of curious objects involves not only an understanding of the historical references and traditions embodied in todayâs museum institution, but also the demonstration of the ability of contemporary museum culture to change, thus pointing to new ways of understanding the role of museum and collected objects
Liv Emma Thorsen, Hund! Fornuft og følelser
Get PDFFörsommarens VM i fotboll 2002, som gick av stapeln i Sydkorea och Japan, skapade som väntat en ny hunddebatt i Europa och Nordamerika. Historien upprepas varje gång det är internationella idrottstävlingar i Ãstasien. I Korea, liksom i Kina och flera andra östasiatiska länder, föder man av hävd upp hundar för köttets skull. Det har gammal hävd. För mänÂniskor i dessa länder är det inte märkligare att äta hundkött än att vi äter en rad andra djurarter (nordamerikaner reagerar exempelvis fortfarande mycket negativt på att vi äter hästkött i form av bl.a. korv och pålägg för att inte tala om de onyanserade reaktionerna på intresset för valkött i Västnorden). Reaktionerna från hundägarhåll blev exempelvis starka när en svensk journalist under fotbolls-VM tog reda på hur hund tillagades och hur det smakade (jag har smakat hundkött under mina fältarbeten i Kina på 1980-talet och kan intyga att det är fullt ätbart, men någon särskilt sensationell smakupplevelse var det inte). Den svenska lyssnarreaktionen var emellertid en mild västanfläkt jämfört med de protester, ibland med en obehaglig rasistisk underton, som förekom på andra håll i väst mot koreanernas smakpreferenser. Koreanerna stod nu inte passiva inför denna oförtäckta eurocentriska och kulturimperialistiska hatkampanj mot sina kosttraditioner utan passade istället på att bjuda utländska gäster på smakprov av denna i deras ögon fina delikatess
Redaksjonelt
Get PDFOslo-redaksjonen har levert sitt foreløpig siste nummer av Tidsskrift for kulturforskning, og en ny redaksjon i Bergen har tatt over tafettpinnen. En stor takk til Oslo-miljøet og spesielt til Inger Johanne Lyngø og Anne Melgård, hhv. avtroppende redaktør og redaksjonssekretær
Western Ideas about Elephants - a Commentary
Get PDFAn elephant is a strange creature. While at home in eastern and southern climatic zones, it also has a rich Western cultural history. This history, or more precisely Western ideas about elephants, is the theme of Nigel Rothfelsâs article. The author introduces the reader to an interesting history and not the least rich source material from the presentation of elephants in bestiaries (collections of animal fables) from the Middle Ages through French natural philosopher Comte de Buffonâs Histoire Naturelle (1749-1804) to controversial American photo artist Andres Serranoâs elephant pictures. What kind of elephant do we see in these and other presentations? Which contexts were they part of and what may they tell us today? These are among the questions asked by the author
A Zoo-logical Nature
Get PDFIn 2007 a new Africa-section opened in Kristiansand Zoo and Amusement Park, with four lions as the chief attraction. In the article the constructed Africa is analysed as a display of living nature. With nearly 700Â 000 annual visitors, the Zoo is a major contributor in the shaping of attitudes towards wildlife. A central concept in the analysis is the term zoo-logical nature, a term that is coined in an analytical intent to embrace different, often contradicting and paradoxical aspects of the Zoo enterprise. Business, profit, moral and love of nature interact with the strategically planned design of buildings, enclosures and landscapes, and the presentation of real and mediated animals. Together these aspects contribute in producing specific relations between the animals and humans, as well as morally acceptable positions for humans in wildlife. In Kristiansand Zoo you meet the lion as a mythical figure, as an individual with a fun personality as well as a specimen â and the mediated lions seem to interact with the real lion in such a way that the captivity is concealed. Instead the animals appear to be protected and free, and the visitors as caring and distanced. The Zoo, then, can be seen as a privileged site to study the meanings we ascribe to wildlife
Editorial
Get PDFHow has nature been put on display in different rooms and by different means â in museums, in private homes, by visual technologies or in textbooks? This was the point of departure for a seminar arranged by the project âNature and the Naturalâ in Oslo 24. October 2008. This issue of Tidsskrift for kulturforskning presents three of the papers given at the seminar. These articles elucidate museum displays of nature and nature transferred to the private home. The other two discuss respectively the display of nature in zoos and the display of nature as a text