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1 Arv Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 2016 2 3 ARVARV Nordic Yearbook of Folklore Vol. 72 Editor ARNE BUGGE AMUNDSEN OSLO, NORWAY Editorial Board Lene Halskov Hansen, København; Fredrik Skott, Göteborg; Suzanne Österlund-Poetzsch, Helsingfors (Helsinki); Terry Gunnell, Reykjavík Published by THE ROYAL GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS ACADEMY UPPSALA, SWEDEN Distributed by eddy.se ab VISBY, SWEDEN 4 © 2016 by The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy, Uppsala ISSN 0066-8176 All rights reserved Articles appearing in this yearbook are abstracted and indexed in European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences ERIH PLUS 2011– Printed with grants from NOP-HS Grant for Nordic Scientific Journals Editorial address: Prof. Arne Bugge Amundsen Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages University of Oslo Box 1010 Blindern NO–0315 Oslo, Norway phone + 4792244774 fax + 4722854828 e-mail: [email protected] http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/forskning/publikasjoner/tidsskrifter/arv/index.html Cover: Kirsten Berrum For index of earlier volumes, see http://www.kgaa.nu/tidskrift.php Distributor eddy.se ab e-post:[email protected] Box 1310, 621 24 Visby Telefon 0498-25 39 00 http://kgaa.bokorder.se Printed in Sweden Textgruppen i Uppsala AB, Uppsala 2016 5 Contents Articles Anne Eriksen: Editorial. The Cultural History of Medicine . 7 Torunn Selberg: Vernacular Medicine, Narratives and Miracles. Healing Narratives in the Context of Popular Storytelling . 11 Lise Camilla Ruud: Enacting Disease. Chorea Sancti Viti in Nine- teenth-Century Norway . 29 Anne Kveim Lie: Naming and Classifying Diseases in the Eight- eenth Century . 61 Anne Eriksen: Public and Population in S.A.D. Tissot’s Books of Medical Advice (1761–1770) . 85 Ane Ohrvik: Negotiating Medical Knowledges. A Bakhtinian Reading of a Norwegian Medical Manuscript from 1794 . 111 Eivind Engebretsen: Translations of the Body and Translational Embodiment in Théophraste Renaudot’s La Présence des Absens ou facile moyen de rendre présent au Médecin l’estat d’un malade absent (1642) . 129 Bjarne Rogan: Sigurd Erixon, European Ethnology and Ethno- logia Europaea 1964–1968 . 149 Obituary Bengt af Klintberg: Jan-Öjvind Swahn 1925–2016 . 185 Book Reviews Adriansen, Inge & Carsten Bregenhøj (eds): Maske og forklæd- ning i Danmark (Fredrik Skott) . 191 Arlander, Anette, Helena Erkkilä, Taina Riikonen & Helena Saari- koski (eds.): Esitystutkimus (Anne Ala-Pöllänen) . 192 Balzamo, Elena: Autour du conte. Neuf études (Bengt af Klintberg) . 194 Biskop, Gunnel: Menuetten – älsklingsdansen (Gunnar Ternhag) . 195 Graff, Ola: Joikeforbudet i Kautokeino (Gunnar Ternhag) . 196 6 Gunnemark, Kerstin (ed.): Sommarliv. Minnen, drömmar och materialitet (Anders Gustavsson) . 198 Hansen, Lene Halskov: Balladesang og kædedans. To aspekter af dansk dansk folkevisekultur (Patrik Sandgren) . 200 Hovi, Tuomas: Heritage through Fiction. Dracula Tourism in Romania (Anders Kaliff) . 203 Karhunen, Eeva: Porin Kuudennen osan tarinoista rakennettu kulttuuriperintö (Sanna Lillbroända-Annala) . 208 Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika: Her Own Worth. Negotiations of Subjectivity in the Life Narrative of a Female Labourer (Ulf Palmenfelt) . 210 Kverndokk, Kyrre: Naturkatastrofer – en kulturhistorie (Frida Hastrup) 212 Lecouteux, Claude: Dictionary of Ancient Magic Words and Spells. From Abraxas to Zoar (Bengt af Klintberg) . 214 Lundin, Johan A. & Fredrik Nilsson: Spritsmuggling på Östersjön – en kulturhistorisk studie av nätverk i tillblivelse (Marlene Paulin Kristensen) . 215 Pulkkinen, Risto: Suomalainen kansanusko. Samaaneista sauna- tonttuihin (Marja-Liisa Keinänen) . 218 Ressem, Astrid Nora (ed.): Norske middelalderballader. Melodier. Bind 3. (Gunnar Ternhag) . 221 Schön, Ebbe: Mat, dryck och magi (Anders Gustavsson) . 222 Stavrum, Heidi: Danseglede og hverdagsliv (Lars Kaijser) . 223 Steffen, Vibeke, Steffen Jöhncke & Kirsten Marie Raahauge (eds.): Between Magic and Rationality. On the Limits of Reason in the Modern World (Ulrika Wolf-Knuts) . 228 Stordalen, Terje & Saphinaz-Amal Naguib (eds.): The Formative Past and the Formation of the Future (Ulrika Wolf-Knuts) . 230 Svalastog, Anna Lydia & Gunlög Fur (eds.): Visions of Sápmi (Coppélie Cocq) . 233 Zackariasson, Maria: Gemenskapen. Deltagande, identitet och religiositet bland unga i Equmenia (Anders Gustavsson) . 234 Ægisson, Sigurður: Gyrfalcons. From Medieval Times to the Modern Era (Ingvar Svanberg) . 235 Editorial 7 Editorial The Cultural History of Medicine Anne Eriksen Popular medicine is one of the classical fields of folklore studies. In recent decades it has grown considerably in scope and ambition. Investigations are no longer limited to collecting superstitions, discussing the relation between rational and “non-rational” folk medicine, or exploring formulas and reme- dies employed by the “wise people” of rural communities (Alver 2013). Since the late 1980s, folklorists and cultural historians have also been inves- tigating contemporary alternative medicine (Alver & Selberg 1992). Close investigations of the complex relationships that can be found between sci- entific and popular understandings of health and medicine are equally im- portant (Mellemgaard 1998; Alver, Fjell & Ryymin 2013). Studies of how “ordinary people” relate to school medicine and the services that are offered them by the systems of public health have a strong social and political po- tential (Rørbye 1980; Nylund Skog 2002; Selberg 2011). During the same period, similar developments have taken place in medi- cal history. This field has moved from being a grand narrative of scientific and medical progress and the gradual obliteration of “errors”, to an interest in how medical knowledge is constructed and put into use in different his- torical contexts (Porter 1985). Even here role of lay people – the patient – has been reconsidered and ascribed new significance. Moreover, the social and historical conditions of possibility of medical practices and insights have been acknowledged and are regarded as far more than “mistakes” or obstacles. Among the most important sources of inspiration behind this “new medical history” are social constructivism and science and technology studies (STS). Both have contributed to an understanding of scientific and medical knowledge as something that is made rather than found (in nature). Both also deconstruct the traditional hierarchy between science and scien- tists as supremely elevated above social forces and structures, and lay people as helplessly embedded in them (Jordanova 1995). These rather parallel developments in two different and originally clearly separate fields have created a wide and very vital common ground: The study of how medical knowledge – of very different kinds – works in soci- 8 Editorial ety, how it is produced and set into circulation, and how a wide range of dif- ferent actors and agents take part in this. The present volume of Arv in- scribes itself into this interdisciplinary field or meeting-place. It presents a collection of articles by authors who, from different academic backgrounds, investigate how medical knowledge is organized, how it is communicated and put to work. The articles cover a considerable span of time, from the seventeenth century to the present. They investigate knowledge production by physicians in the medical field itself, as well as popular and vernacular traditions of knowledge, narration and practice. They also explore how ex- pert knowledge has been disseminated, circulated and popularized. Despite these dissimilarities, which concern time, traditions and agents, they share the conviction that knowledge is always produced socially. It is shaped and conditioned by the technologies that are put to use to produce it. The articles discuss how categories, forms and instructions not only or- ganize pre-existing knowledge, but also shape the phenomena that the knowledge is about. Reports and narratives do not only refer to an external reality, they also contribute to creating it – they define, stage and in a certain way perform the diseases and cures which they present. From such perspec- tives the production of medical knowledge will involve a wide range of agents. The physicians are important, but so are their patients – the carriers of the diseases which are described and treated by the medical men. How- ever, the opposite perspective is also present in this volume: in popular nar- ratives and practices the physicians, their science and the health care system will become the objects of knowledge, of judgement and of evaluation. They will work as more or less important elements in other ways of knowing what diseases, cures and medical practice are all about. Understanding medical knowledge as socially created implies putting an emphasis on interaction rather than on diffusion, dissemination and distri- bution. Communication is not something that happens “afterwards”, when the knowledge is already made, but is part of the production itself. The art- icles in this volume share to interest in investigating how these processes oc- cur. 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