Being able to express oneself in writing in different languages broadens the ways in which one can choose to talk or write about things. Children and young adults that have learned sufficient writing skills and vocabulary in North Sami along a national majority language and English are quick to choose different perspectives, voice, mood and subjects of discussion depending on the language of the writing task. The greatest challenge for these multilingual children does not lie in learning of different languages, but instead in receiving the support and exposure to linguistic input that is needed in reaching well developed bilingualism and a good level of literacy in both or all languages. Finding the ways to secure the existence of both the cultural and the multilingual context from which the identity spectrum and voices of these multilingual children arise is of uttermost importance.
{"title":"Språkrikedom skapar ett mångsidigt identitetsspektrum","authors":"Hanna Outakoski","doi":"10.54807/kp.v23.21694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v23.21694","url":null,"abstract":"Being able to express oneself in writing in different languages broadens the ways in which one can choose to talk or write about things. Children and young adults that have learned sufficient writing skills and vocabulary in North Sami along a national majority language and English are quick to choose different perspectives, voice, mood and subjects of discussion depending on the language of the writing task. The greatest challenge for these multilingual children does not lie in learning of different languages, but instead in receiving the support and exposure to linguistic input that is needed in reaching well developed bilingualism and a good level of literacy in both or all languages. Finding the ways to secure the existence of both the cultural and the multilingual context from which the identity spectrum and voices of these multilingual children arise is of uttermost importance.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"525 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140471222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article analyses the flow of speeches during a ”storytelling evening” in a northern Sweden village, where people had been invited to tell stories about the times and the work when timber and tarbarrels were floated down the river. Focus is on how speakers claim authority and entitlement to have something to say, and how a large-scale hyper-narrative of “the floating epoch” is negotiated. Discussed in William Labov’s terms, although the result tends to give a general description without a clear narrative structure, there is a narrative closure implicit in the theme of the evening: when the floating work ended, the social life described also ended. Furthermore, the relevance of the storytelling is not only to find in the pride of the local history, but also in giving opportunity to comment on the contemporary situation where the hydroelectric power plant regulates the river and affects the landscape and living conditions.
{"title":"Berättelse, beskrivning, auktoritet","authors":"Alf Arvidsson","doi":"10.54807/kp.v23.21601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v23.21601","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the flow of speeches during a ”storytelling evening” in a northern Sweden village, where people had been invited to tell stories about the times and the work when timber and tarbarrels were floated down the river. Focus is on how speakers claim authority and entitlement to have something to say, and how a large-scale hyper-narrative of “the floating epoch” is negotiated. Discussed in William Labov’s terms, although the result tends to give a general description without a clear narrative structure, there is a narrative closure implicit in the theme of the evening: when the floating work ended, the social life described also ended. Furthermore, the relevance of the storytelling is not only to find in the pride of the local history, but also in giving opportunity to comment on the contemporary situation where the hydroelectric power plant regulates the river and affects the landscape and living conditions.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"74 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140476758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
How do ethnologists use historical sources? Do we, as some historians suggests, write without necessary context and just pick the raisins out of the cake, so to speak? Or, on the other hand, is there a risk in being so absorbed with the thickness of context that historians lose sight of what really matters? This has been expressed by Nietschze in a famous sentence where historians can tell everything about the barn in Betlehem, but forget about the person in the center of the scene. The authors suggests that ethnologists are good at finding relevant problems in society today, but in tracing them in history, or when we write history “for its own sake”, we need to consider context, anachronisms and empirical thickness more. That way ethnology can combine the advantages with a micro perspective and high credibility and make history that is both durable and highly topical. With the political developments we face today, ethnology is more than ever needed to complicate the past, to lift voices of the unheard and to persistently write our heterogeneous history.
{"title":"Etnologin och det förflutna","authors":"Maria Vallström, Rebecka Lennartsson","doi":"10.54807/kp.v23.21616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v23.21616","url":null,"abstract":"How do ethnologists use historical sources? Do we, as some historians suggests, write without necessary context and just pick the raisins out of the cake, so to speak? Or, on the other hand, is there a risk in being so absorbed with the thickness of context that historians lose sight of what really matters? This has been expressed by Nietschze in a famous sentence where historians can tell everything about the barn in Betlehem, but forget about the person in the center of the scene. The authors suggests that ethnologists are good at finding relevant problems in society today, but in tracing them in history, or when we write history “for its own sake”, we need to consider context, anachronisms and empirical thickness more. That way ethnology can combine the advantages with a micro perspective and high credibility and make history that is both durable and highly topical. With the political developments we face today, ethnology is more than ever needed to complicate the past, to lift voices of the unheard and to persistently write our heterogeneous history.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"270 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140475107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Due to increased racism many Swedish news sites have adopted new strategies to deal with offensive user comments, such as pre-moderation of comments and more strict moderation policies. Despite this many Sami still perceive that hostile comments about Sami continue to increase on news sites. In this article I discuss possible reasons to why racist comments slip by newspaper gatekeepers. Everyday racism, that is subtle forms of discrimination, often presented as neutral or commonsense facts or as collectively shared and therefore unchallenged racial stereotypes, is seen as one key factor. Others factors could be journalists’ lack of knowledge about Sami history and culture, newsrooms lack of time and resources, journalistic routines and/or reader comments commercial potential.
{"title":"Varför ska dom få?","authors":"Eva J:son Lönn","doi":"10.54807/kp.v23.21688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v23.21688","url":null,"abstract":"Due to increased racism many Swedish news sites have adopted new strategies to deal with offensive user comments, such as pre-moderation of comments and more strict moderation policies. Despite this many Sami still perceive that hostile comments about Sami continue to increase on news sites. In this article I discuss possible reasons to why racist comments slip by newspaper gatekeepers. Everyday racism, that is subtle forms of discrimination, often presented as neutral or commonsense facts or as collectively shared and therefore unchallenged racial stereotypes, is seen as one key factor. Others factors could be journalists’ lack of knowledge about Sami history and culture, newsrooms lack of time and resources, journalistic routines and/or reader comments commercial potential.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"47 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140479278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In Academia archives, office desks and filing cabinets are bursting with material, hard disks are overloaded and calling for more memory space. This paper looks at the routines of selective knowledge. How do scholars learn to decide what is important or not, irrelevant or worth knowing in a given setting and how do we get at such skills that often sink into the unconscious? The focus is on everyday practices of academic work, how people gradually develop routines for handling information, collecting materials or learning to ignore and forget as well. How does one acquire the motoric dexterity of rifling through a filing cabinet, skimming Google pages, deleting emails, or judging a book by holding in it one’s hands? The power of such everyday routines comes from the ways that academic norms and hierarchies are hidden in what seems as nothing more than “the way we do things here”.
{"title":"Konsten att ignorera och välja bort","authors":"Orvar Löfgren","doi":"10.54807/kp.v23.21655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v23.21655","url":null,"abstract":"In Academia archives, office desks and filing cabinets are bursting with material, hard disks are overloaded and calling for more memory space. This paper looks at the routines of selective knowledge. How do scholars learn to decide what is important or not, irrelevant or worth knowing in a given setting and how do we get at such skills that often sink into the unconscious? The focus is on everyday practices of academic work, how people gradually develop routines for handling information, collecting materials or learning to ignore and forget as well. How does one acquire the motoric dexterity of rifling through a filing cabinet, skimming Google pages, deleting emails, or judging a book by holding in it one’s hands? The power of such everyday routines comes from the ways that academic norms and hierarchies are hidden in what seems as nothing more than “the way we do things here”.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"261 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140471386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Sámi people have had a special relation to the bear. One can find it in stories and in songs, where the bear has an important role to play. My intention is to answer the question, why is the bear so afraid of the brothers? By using oral history as a tool, as presented by Jan Vansina, is it possible to find a core message in stories and yoiks. The yoiking tradition among the Sámi people is a way to tell stories, remembrance and to describe animals, humans and nature. There are hundreds of songs to the bear and in a majority of them do the lyrics describe the bear, its habits and movements. Simultaneously are the two brothers a common thread in many other stories, particularly in forest Sámi areas. By comparing these two themes, the bear and the brothers, we will find a mythical perspective. There are reason why the bear has to be concerned if he meets two brothers.
{"title":"Samiska berättelser om björnmöten och de två bröderna","authors":"Krister Stoor","doi":"10.54807/kp.v23.21697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v23.21697","url":null,"abstract":"The Sámi people have had a special relation to the bear. One can find it in stories and in songs, where the bear has an important role to play. My intention is to answer the question, why is the bear so afraid of the brothers? By using oral history as a tool, as presented by Jan Vansina, is it possible to find a core message in stories and yoiks. The yoiking tradition among the Sámi people is a way to tell stories, remembrance and to describe animals, humans and nature. There are hundreds of songs to the bear and in a majority of them do the lyrics describe the bear, its habits and movements. Simultaneously are the two brothers a common thread in many other stories, particularly in forest Sámi areas. By comparing these two themes, the bear and the brothers, we will find a mythical perspective. There are reason why the bear has to be concerned if he meets two brothers.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"483 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140472336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When doing cultural history research, the researcher can come across already established opinions of what the history is in a field. Aitologies, lists of heroes and masters, turning point anecdotes and written histories are present as more or less taken for granted within a community. This is a convenient starting-point and background material for a researcher, but can also hide more than it shows by confirming contemporary definitions, power relations, inclusions and exclusions. As an example, I analyse tendencies within Swedish Jazz History by going through interviews made at the Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research. A conventional attitude would be to accept the collection as fairly representative: the most important musicians have been interviewed and there is a good sample across different decades. However, in a reading “against the grain” by the use of Katherine Galloway Young’s concepts of Taleworld, storyrealm and interview situation, the interviews stand forward as negotiations of what jazz styles, what musicians and what qualities should be included in the Swedish jazz field and what is to be left out. In this case, foreign born musicians and women musicians are marginalized in Swedish jazz history, as well as styles that can seem to be too commercial. The musicians chosen are either stars, or witnesses to the stars. Working against the grain of the emic Swedish Jazz history is to problematize what has been outdefined and how, to ask counterfactual questions on what could have happened if other discourses had dominated, and reflect on new questions to ask, new definitions of the research object, and the need for new and/or revised documentation.
{"title":"Medhårs och mothårs","authors":"Alf Arvidsson","doi":"10.54807/kp.v23.21622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v23.21622","url":null,"abstract":"When doing cultural history research, the researcher can come across already established opinions of what the history is in a field. Aitologies, lists of heroes and masters, turning point anecdotes and written histories are present as more or less taken for granted within a community. This is a convenient starting-point and background material for a researcher, but can also hide more than it shows by confirming contemporary definitions, power relations, inclusions and exclusions. As an example, I analyse tendencies within Swedish Jazz History by going through interviews made at the Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research. A conventional attitude would be to accept the collection as fairly representative: the most important musicians have been interviewed and there is a good sample across different decades. However, in a reading “against the grain” by the use of Katherine Galloway Young’s concepts of Taleworld, storyrealm and interview situation, the interviews stand forward as negotiations of what jazz styles, what musicians and what qualities should be included in the Swedish jazz field and what is to be left out. In this case, foreign born musicians and women musicians are marginalized in Swedish jazz history, as well as styles that can seem to be too commercial. The musicians chosen are either stars, or witnesses to the stars. Working against the grain of the emic Swedish Jazz history is to problematize what has been outdefined and how, to ask counterfactual questions on what could have happened if other discourses had dominated, and reflect on new questions to ask, new definitions of the research object, and the need for new and/or revised documentation.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"427 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140471984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
“Narrative studies” is a rich, expanding, multi- and interdisciplinary field, where many definitions and uses of the term narrative flourish. This special issue focuses on narrating. The presented articles explore narrating as means for self-presentation and political struggle; as an activity formed in interplay and dialogue, formed by linguistic practices and situated in a complex web of power.
{"title":"Berättande: uttryck, samspel, förhandling","authors":"Katarzyna Wolanik Boström, Alf Arvidsson","doi":"10.54807/kp.v23.21589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v23.21589","url":null,"abstract":"“Narrative studies” is a rich, expanding, multi- and interdisciplinary field, where many definitions and uses of the term narrative flourish. This special issue focuses on narrating. The presented articles explore narrating as means for self-presentation and political struggle; as an activity formed in interplay and dialogue, formed by linguistic practices and situated in a complex web of power.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"5 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140478669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article takes an interview with two Polish specialist physicians, a married couple currently living and working in Sweden, as a point of departure for exploration of a co-narration of experiences of migration and hybridisation. A narrative support is offered both within the couple and by the researcher and the evaluation of a story is often strengthened by a shared laughter. The analysis focuses how ”narrative sparkles” are evoked by the decision to leave Poland, the feeling of linguistic and cultural hybridisation, the predicaments of marking status in the right way and the ambivalence of belonging to both a highly respected social stratum and the category of ”immigrants”.
{"title":"Migrationsberättelser i samspel","authors":"Katarzyna Wolanik Boström","doi":"10.54807/kp.v23.21595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v23.21595","url":null,"abstract":"This article takes an interview with two Polish specialist physicians, a married couple currently living and working in Sweden, as a point of departure for exploration of a co-narration of experiences of migration and hybridisation. A narrative support is offered both within the couple and by the researcher and the evaluation of a story is often strengthened by a shared laughter. The analysis focuses how ”narrative sparkles” are evoked by the decision to leave Poland, the feeling of linguistic and cultural hybridisation, the predicaments of marking status in the right way and the ambivalence of belonging to both a highly respected social stratum and the category of ”immigrants”.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140474990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This text is about a Ohredahke efforts to manage the increasing competition for natural resources at their expense. Through interaction between the reindeer herders and reindeer owners they struggle for their survival and future. This work includes conscious strategies based on theories of decolonization and theories of post-colonialism, but also a deliberate strategy based on education which was expressed during the 1960s.
{"title":"En samebys strategi för överlevnad","authors":"Christina Åhrén","doi":"10.54807/kp.v23.21685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v23.21685","url":null,"abstract":"This text is about a Ohredahke efforts to manage the increasing competition for natural resources at their expense. Through interaction between the reindeer herders and reindeer owners they struggle for their survival and future. This work includes conscious strategies based on theories of decolonization and theories of post-colonialism, but also a deliberate strategy based on education which was expressed during the 1960s.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"726 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140476540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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