This page was made by
Ingar Kaldal
, Department for History, University of Trondheim
. It contains information about a Nordic research project. Comments and
questions about the project should be sent to
ingar.kaldal@hf.ntnu.no
. The last update of this page was made on February 14, 2003.
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 was financed by Nordiska Samarbetsnämnden för Humanistisk Forskning (NOS-H).
Ingar Kaldal, Bo Fritzbøger, Ella Johansson, Hanna Snellman (red.). Skogsliv. Kultuyrella processer i nordiska skogsbygder. Historiska Media, Lund 2000.
The summaries from this book are also published on this www-page (see the links from every author). The rights to copy and use those texts are the same as in the book.
Michelle Facos
Picturing the
Nordic Forest in Scandinavian Schoolbooks
E-mail: mfacos@indiana.edu
Address: History of Art Department Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana
47405, USA
Bo Fritzbøger
"Thou Shalt Not Steal"
Does Not Apply in the Forest: An Historical Assessment of Eighteenth
Century Forest Thievery in Denmark and Sweden
(danish presentation
here
)
E-mail: bofritz@get2net.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 82 75 Fax: +45 35 32 82 41
Address: Københavns Universitet, Institut for Historie, Njalsgade,
DK-2300 København S
Paul Tage Halberg
Social Status in
Norwegian Farmer Forests and Company Forests
E-mail: Paul.Halberg@alu.hist.no
Telephone: +47 73 55 98 80 Fax: +47 73 55 98 51
Address: Trondheim Lærerhøgskole, Rotvoll Allé, N-7050
Trondheim
Tapio Hämynen
The Karelian Clondyke.
How Lumbering Practices Changed Life in "Border Karelia" During the 1920s
and 1930s
E-mail: hamynen@joyl.joensuu.fi
Telephone: +358 73 15 11 Fax: +358 73 15 14 557/14 382
Address: Joensuu Ylipisto, Historian Laitos, Pl 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu
Kjell Hansen
Between Conformity
and Resistence: on the Formation of Local Identities in Woodland Regions
of Northern Sweden
Swedish presentation
here
E-mail: Kjell.Hansen@etn.lu.se
Address: Etnologiska institutionen, Finngatan 8, S-22362 Lund
Tim Ingold
Work, Identity and
Environment: Finns and Saami in Lapland
E-mail: Tim.Ingold@man.ac.uk
Address: Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, Roscoe
Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester M13 9PL, England
Ella Johansson
Poachers and Peasants.
Cultural Meanings of Hunting and Agriculture in Northern Sweden during
the Industrial Revolution
Swedish presentation
here
)
E-mail: ella.johansson@etn.lu.se
Address: Etnologiska Institutionen, Umeå Universitet, S-90187 Umeå
Address at home: Bryggaregatan 9, S-22736 Lund
Ingar Kaldal
Gender, Work, and Forest
in Narratives from the Changing Daily Life in a Woodland Region of Scandinavia
(norwegian presentation
here)
E-mail: ingar.kaldal@hf.ntnu.no
.
Telephone: +47 73 59 64 35 Fax: +47 73 59 64 41
Address: Historisk Institutt, NTNU, Trondheim, N-7491 Trondheim
Martti Linkola
Cultural landscapes of slash-and-burn cultivation in Finland (article
not finnished)
E-mail: martti.linkola@kolumbus.fi
Telephone: +358 040501/4050329 Fax: +0358 04050300
Address: Museiverket, Box 913, FIN- 00101 Helsinki
Helena Ruotsala
Reindeer Herders
and the Forest in Finnish Lapland
(swedish text
here
)
Helenas Ruotsalas
Homepage
E-mail: helena.ruotsala@utu.fi
Telephone: (arb.)+358-2-333 6350, fax +358-2-333 6360
Address: University of Turku, Ethnology, Henrikink. 3, FIN 20014, TURUN
YLIOPISTO
Anne Ruuttula-Vasari
Barons Should Not
Be Trusted: Especially Not Lumber Barons
(swedish presentation
here
)
E-mail: anne.ruuttulavasari@pp.inet.fi
Telephone: +358 981 5533318
Address: Historian Laitos, PL 111, Oulun Yliopisto, FIN-90571, OULU
Another address: Niemelantie 1, FIN-85410 Sievi
Hanna Snellman
The Era of Timber
Floating in Northern Finland
(finnish text
here
)
e-mail: hksnellm@cc.helsinki.fi
Telephone: +358 9 191 22622, Fax: +358 9 191 22653
Address: Department of Ethnology, Box 3 (Fabiankinkatu 33), FIN - 00014
University of Helsinki
Kerstin Sundberg
"They have devastated
this small pine woods" – Concerning use of Forest Resources in Agrarian Society
(swedish presentation
here
)
E-mail: Kerstin.Sundberg@hist.lu.se
Address: Historiska Institutionen, Box 2074, S-22002 Lund
Telephone: +46 46 222 32 95, at home: +46 46 53466
Home address: Trollskogsvägen 14, S-240 12 Torna Haellestad, Sverige
Øivind Vestheim
No project completed
E-mail: oevest@online.no
Telephone: +47 62 83 56 26, Mobil: 90 88 54 26
Address: Rinda Gård, N-2230 Skotterud
Sakari Virtanen
On our attitudes
towards the forests
(article not finnished)
E-mail: sakari.virtanen@oulu.fi
Telephone: +358 86 632 4858 Fax: +358 86 632 4865
Address: University of Oulu, Research and Development Centre of Kajaani,
P.O.Box 51, FIN-87101 Kajaani
Pekka Virtanen
No project completed
E-mail: virtanen@lusto.fi
Telephone: +358 57 345 1016 Fax: +358 57 345 1050
Address: LUSTO, Finnish Forest Museum, FIN-58450 Punkaharju
This page was updated on February 14, 2003 (but adresses and phonenumbers
are not uptated since 2000).