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"Masculinities" in Sami studies
Get PDFSami masculinities must be understood as plural. This is the starting point for this article. There is little research done on gender and/in Sami society, especially concerning men and masculinity. The article deals with Sami masculinities as a field of research, and has two main goals. Firstly, the main trends in relevant research on gender in Sápmi in general and on Sami men in particular are presented and discussed. Secondly, a number of challenges related to doing research on Sami masculinities are explored. The theoretical perspectives are mainly drawn from the fields of gender studies and indigenous studies. The article will hopefully serve as a platform and a starting point for further research on Sami masculinities
Peter Fjågesund, The Dream of the North. A Cultural History to 1920 (Studia Imagologica 23), Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2014, ISBN 9789042038370; e-ISBN 9789401210829, 573 pp.
No full textLeila Mattfolk, Maria Vidberg & Pamela Gustavsson (eds.), Namn i stadsmiljö. Handlingar från NORNA:s 42 symposium i Helsingfors den 10–12 november 2011, Helsingfors & Uppsala
No full textReview of: Leila Mattfolk, Maria Vidberg & Pamela Gustavsson (eds.), Namn i stadsmiljö. Handlingar från NORNA:s 42 symposium i Helsingfors den 10–12 november 2011, Helsingfors & Uppsala: Institutet för de inhemska språken; NORNA-förlaget 2013 (Institutet för de inhemska språken. Skrifter 7; NORNA- rapporter 40), ISBN 9789525446821; ISSN 23234113; ISSN 03466728, 264 pp
Catarina Röjder, Ortnamnen i Göteborgs och Bohus län 19. Ortnamnen i Tanums härad. 1. Bebyggelsenamn
No full textReview of: Catarina Röjder, Ortnamnen i Göteborgs och Bohus län 19. Ortnamnen i Tanums härad. 1. Bebyggelsenamn, Göteborg: Institutet för språk och folkminnen, Dialekt-, ortnamns- och folkminnesarkivet i Göteborg 2013, ISBN 9789186959012; ISSN 02841908, XLII+ 239 + map
Diana Whaley (ed.), Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. Vol 1. Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1, Part 1–2, Turnhout: Brepols 2012, ISBN 9782503518961, CCXV pp. + 1206 pp.
No full textRegional Differentiation and National Uniformity: Norwegian Elementary School Legislation in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century
Get PDFPrevious research on Norwegian educational reforms after 1814, the year when Norway became a constitutional state, has emphasized the conservatism of the elementary education acts of 1816 and 1827. Contrary to expectations for a constitutional state, these acts did not reflect a concern for fostering politically active citizens. Neither did they follow up the enlightenment idea of teaching secular knowledge to the common people. We raise a new question concerning post-1814 educational legislation in Norway: was there an increased emphasis on national uniformity after 1814? A close reading of the earlier 1739/41 acts and the 1827 act, including the Plan and Instruction from 1834, studies of the debates in the Norwegian Parliament 1815–1827 and the temporary 1816 act on elementary education, show that policy after 1814 emphasised national uniformity more than before. Despite continued local funding of elementary schooling, national policy and legislation promoted uniformity
Making Wilderness: An Inquiry into Stig Wesslén’s Documentation and Representation of the Northern Swedish Landscape
No full textThe present article explores images of the Northern Swedish landscape, produced and mediated by Stig Wesslén (1902–1987) in the 1930s and 1940s. Trained as a forester, Wesslén gradually turned into a documentarist, focusing on the wilderness, notably big birds, predators and the mountain range in Lapland. Along with making a number of ambitious movies and embarking on intensive lecture tours, he was an active debater and writer and published six, richly illustrated books. These careers were interwoven, partly for practical reasons; income from lecturing and journalism financed his filmmaking and gave him time to write his books. It is argued in the article that Wesslén was driven by a strong feeling for wilderness and that he was against the way modern civilization exploited nature. The goal of his documentary work was ultimately to raise public awareness regarding the state of nature and he may thus be seen as a link between the preservationists of the early twentieth century and the environmentalists of the 1960s. In order to reveal the true essence of nature, Wesslén developed a “scientific” documentary technique, which he called “camera hunting.” The idea was to use the best camera equipment possible that would allow him to observe nature at a distance, not disturb the natural order of things, and present authentic images. Yet, as the article shows, Wesslén sometimes anthropomorphized the animals and also dramatized nature in many of his works
