Tidsskrift for kulturforskning

«Arv og kjærlighet»

Line Førrre Grønstad — 2023-06-30

In many Western cultures, a shared surname symbolises unity within the nuclear family. In heterosexual couples, choices of surname often confirm a gendered hierarchy, as men usually keep their name and give it to their wife and children. In Norway, 13 % of the men break with this patronymic custom, and take the last name of their wife as a new surname or as a new middle name, hyphenate their names, or make new names. This means that 87 % of the men, compared to 41 % of the women, keep their names unchanged. In the article I show that surnames are filled with meanings connected to the creation and strengthening of the nuclear family. When men’s choices break with tradition, norms of family making and continuity of male lineage becomes visible. Women are often faced with the need to choose between name sharing with the birth family or with the nuclear family. It can be interpreted as part of women’s emotional labour. The stories from men who change names, indicate that some men share the emotional labour.

Bunad til konfirmasjonen

Hege Stormark — 2023-06-30

For the past ten years there has been a change in girls’ choice of clothes for confirmation. Today most girls choose to wear a bunad (Norwegian folk dress) for their confirmation. What meaning and symbolism, do girls see in a bunad? How do young people justify their choice of clothes and what social forces are in operation? Themes which are considered in the discussion are: young people’s consideration of a bunad and economy, their emphasis on the costume’s history and appearance, taste and aesthetics, and what a bunad means for their own identity and sense of belonging. The bunad is a resource. The wearer is accepted and acknowledged as part of the social field. At the same time the purchase of a bunad presupposes considerable economic capital. Girls who do not wear a bunad for confirmation stand out. The article deals with how social forces are in play when young people choose their confirmation outfit.

Kulturarvingerne på Lystgården

Lone Ree Milkær — 2023-06-30

This article examines the connections between sustainability and cultural heritage in a branch of the everyday climate activist movement Sustainable lives in a suburb of Bergen, Norway. In the material, narrative and performative practices of the activists in the movement cultural heritage become both a way of forming a platform in the public sphere and a way of creating a connection between past, present and future which is mirrored in the discourse of a sustainable climate-changed future. By taking on the responsibility as cultural heirs the movement simultaneously creates the cultural heritage that they claim responsibility for.

The house Lystgården in the suburb Landås is an old mansion, built in the 1600s as Landås hovedgård, which now houses the movement Sustainable lives and is the center of most of the activities in the Landås chapter. By re-telling the story of the house as the summer home of the childhood and youth of Bergen native composer Edvard Grieg the movement connects to the romantic perception of nature in the 1800s and a nostalgic image of peasant culture. The article examines both materials, narratives, and performative strategies for creating the identity as a kind of sustainable cultural heirs.

Barn av «tre stammers møte»: skiftende narrativer om ‘solgte’ kvenbarn i Nord-Norge

Stein R. Mathisen — 2023-06-30

This article takes a closer look at a narrative motif relating how Kven children during famine in the Torne valley in the early 1800s Sweden and Finland were ‘sold’ to Norway. These narratives have been told, written, and performed in different media and varied versions from the time when the events took place, and up to the present. Because these versions can be tied to different contexts through a relatively long period of time, and appear in different social and historical surroundings, the genealogy of this specific narrative motif offer analytic challenges. This involves more specific examinations, looking at who told or documented the narratives, in what contexts, and for what purposes and intentions. The analysis reveals how the narrative motifs through time are connected to changing metanarratives concerning the position of ethnic and national minorities in the Norwegian nation state. This has the potential of broadening the understanding of minority relations often communicated through the metaphor of «the meeting of three tribes», as well as sharpening the focus at the history of Norwegianization politics related to ethnic minorities in the Norwegian north.

Presentasjon av dr.avhandlinger

Marie Eberson Degnæs — 2023-06-30

Marie Eberson Degnæs: Minnebånd og minneknuter. Barnebarnsgenerasjonens møter med holocausterindring

Hannah Kristine Bjørke Lunde: Pilgrimage Matters: Administrative and Semiotic Landscapes of Contemporary Pilgrimage Realisations in Norway

Eva Dagny Johansen: Samisk kulturarv tilbakeføres – innvirkninger på lokalmuseum og samfunn i Altafjorden, Sápmi

Bokanmeldelser

Ida Tolgensbakk — 2023-06-30

Barbro Klein, 2021. I tosaforornas värld. Gustav berättar

Märta Ramsten 2022: Framför mikrofonen och bakom. En personlig återblick på Svenskt visarkivs verksamhet med inspelningar av folkliga musiktraditioner

Kristian Bjørkdahl og Karen V. Lykke 2022. Live, Die, Buy, Eat: A Cultural History of Animals and Meat

Gunnhild Røthe (2020), Magi og mirakler fra vikingtid til middelalder

Aasta M.B. Bjørkøy; Ruth Hemstad; Aina Nøding; Anne Birgitte Rønning (red.), 2019. Litterære verdensborgere. Transnasjonale perspektiver på norsk bokhistorie 1519–1850

Jonas Frykman og Orvar Löfgren 2022. Kärlek och kärnfamilj i folkehemmet. Längtan, lust och oro

Redaksjonelt

Line Esborg — 2023-06-30

Ny gul duk på bordet. Og nye kvite ark! Årets første utgave av Tidsskrift for kulturforskning er et såkalt åpent nummer, men den oppmerksomme leser vil like fullt kunne ane interessante berøringspunkter blant vidt forskjellige tema og tilnærminger.

Utenfor er våren i skrivende stund på sitt mest ellevilt grønne her på Østlandet. Våren er full av løfter samtidig som den påminner om overganger, i livet og året. Alt er nytt og annerledes. Alt forblir (nesten) ved det samme. Det er kanskje også overgangsritualenes magi, at alt er uforanderlig og foranderlig på samme tid. Mange priser kjærligheten ved å formalisere relasjoner om våren, men innebærer en slik statusovergang også skifte av navn? Navnebytte endrer sammenhenger man ser seg selv i, argumenterer Line Førre Grønstad, fagleg leder i Skeivt arkiv i Bergen for her. Med artikkelen «Arv og kjærlighet». Om å bytte og å halde på etternamnet for norske menn i heterofile forhold diskuterer hun den tette tilknytningen mellom navn og familie som hun finner i materialet. Navnevalg kan forståes som et uttrykk for aktiv tilhørighet.