European Ethnology
Ethnological research often discusses cultural dichotomies such as leisure- and everyday life, urban and rural life, nature and culture, environment and consumption. Cultural diversity, gender and sexuality have, since many years back, been central themes in what we name the Stockholm Ethnology.
Transnationalism is another keyword in our research. Sometimes we study it in relations to migration research, but equally often we analyse it as a vital theme in e.g. popular culture. Another central theme is vernacular expressions: We identify cultural utterances where they occur, from children’s play to large, ceremonial events. The tensions between cultural history and applied history, the uses of historical sources, folklife- and archive material for various purposes are also something we study. Our methods and empirical material are pluralistic: ethnography, qualitative interview and participant observation, as well as the cultural analysis of historical sources, archive material as well as materiality and objects, are very common.
- Body and Gender
- Critical Culture Heritage Studies and Museology
- Cultural Economy
- Cultural History
- Cultural utterances, Rituals and Play
- Culture and Nature
- Diversity and Transnational Mobility
- Everyday Life and the Festive
- Institutional Ethnology
- Materiality and Visual Culture
- The Use of History and Tourism
Body and Gender
Being a cultural being also means being a "gendered" being in the sense that ideas about body and gender affect both one's own living space and the ways in which society is organized. Therefore, questions related to sex, body, sexuality and gender have long been central in ethnology.
Body and Gender
