CULTURAL PROCESSES IN NORDIC WOODLAND COMMUNITIES

CULTURAL PROCESSES IN NORDIC WOODLAND COMMUNITIES

Projektträger
Historical Institute, Trondheim (Nordiska Samarbetsnaemnden foer Humanistisk Forskning)
Ausrichter
Nordiska Samarbetsnaemnden foer Humanistisk Forskning
Ort des Projektträgers
Trondheim
Land
Norway
Vom - Bis
01.07.1995 - 30.06.1998
Von
Kald, Ingar

"CULTURAL PROCESSES IN NORDIC WOODLAND COMMUNITIES"

The project was initiated in 1995 and is scheduled to last until 1998. It is carried through by a group of approximately ten social and human scientists from Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The project is conducted by Ingar Kaldal (Historical Institute, Trondheim).

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It is the aim of the research team, from different angles, to focus on everyday life in landscapes and communities dominated by woods, and to analyse various cultural processes within a range of very dissimilar Nordic woodland contexts.

In great parts of the Nordic Countries, woods and woodland management have until recently been an essential basis of human subsistence. The way in which "woodland" was considered to be as well a poor as an unlimited resource, deeply influenced Nordic culture in various manners. I. a. it might have given other cultural meanings to property and inheritance rights than in more agrarian parts of Europe. Furthermore, it might have affected the perception of right and wrong, state and society, wealth and poverty, equality, household and work. Metaphors derived from everyday life in woodland contexts were used in the construction of cultural identities relating to gender, working status, locality or nation. The project group aspires to study what woods and everyday life in woodland communities have meant in various national and local contexts within the Nordic Countries.

The project group also wishes to develop an experimental milieu where the professional traditions of history, ethnology and other social and human sciences can encounter.

The project period is 01.07.1995-30.06.1998, and the project is financed by Nordiska Samarbetsnaemnden foer Humanistisk Forskning (NOS-H).

The project group wishes to establish contacts with other researchers concerned with similar topics. During the project period annual conferences with workshops and also invited, external participants, will be arranged. The first conference was held in Kuhmo, Finland, in September 1995, the second in the forest museum LUSTO, Punkaharju, Finland, in May 1997, the third in Fredensborg, Denmark in May 22-25, 1997, and the last conference (probably in Norway) in late 1998.

More information about the project, the participants and their addresses can be found on the projects homepage on WWW:

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