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They Do Things Differently There They Do Things Differently There They Do Things Differently There Essays on Cultural History Edited by Bruce Johnson and Harri Kiiskinen Cultural History — Kulttuurihistoria 9 Turku, Finland Published by k&h-kustannus Cultural History University of Turku 20014 TURKU FINLAND http://www.culturalhistory.net ISBN 978-951-29-4656-3 ISSN 1458-1949 © 2011 Authors Cover Photo by Hannu Salmi Cover Design by Henri Terho Typeset by Harri Kiiskinen Printed in Finland by Uniprint Turku Contents Preface vii List of Contributors ix BRUCE JOHNSON Introduction 1 I Essays in Cultural Historiography HELI RANTALA On the origins of ‘culture’ 21 MARJA TUOMINEN Where the world ends? The places and challenges of northern cultural history 43 ASKO NIVALA The Chemical Age: Presenting history with metaphors 81 KARI KALLIONIEMI & KIMI KÄRKI Tracing the Hegemonic and the Marginal: A Cultural History of Cultural Studies 109 II Essays in Cultural History MARJO KAARTINEN Premodern Breast Cancer and the Abject 137 KIRSI TUOHELA ‘Dotage without a fever'. Towards a cultural history of melancholia 159 RITVA HAPULI & MAARIT LESKELÄ-KÄRKI The public and private worlds of writing 185 MERVI AUTTI The photograph as source of microhistory – reaching out for the invisible 211 v Preface e articles appearing in this collection originated in a book called Kult- tuurihistoriallinen katse1. In that book, the authors discussed the principles of cultural history, not conning themselves to the obvious question ‘What is cultural history?’, but moving beyond it to investigate both the premises and the results of cultural history. How did cultural history to come into existence? How does it look at its objects? As such, the book was a continuation of the introspective process at the Department of Cultural History, the previous expression of which was the book Kulttuurihistoria. Johdatus tutkimukseen2. is introspection is a consequence of the strong anti-dogmatic tra- ditions of the Department, in which each researcher is encouraged to formulate his/her own answers to the question ‘What is cultural history and how it should be conducted?’ Unsurprisingly, such a question has no single answer. Research elds – be they popular culture, spatial practices, or constructions of identity – carry their own jargon and conceptual categor- ies, the nuanced expressions of which often escape those not well versed in them; and research traditions regarding di erent eras and geographical locations, be they sixteenth century England, nineteenth century Finland, classical antiquity, or the American south-west, carry with them their own grand narratives that need to be appropriated, challenged, contested – or rewritten. erefore, ‘What is cultural history, and how it should be 1 ‘ e Gaze of Cultural History’, edited by Heli Rantala and Sakari Ollitervo, Turku, k&h, 2010. 2 ‘Cultural History. Introduction to the study’, Immonen & Leskelä-Kärki, Helsinki, SKR, 2001. vii conducted’ is a question that receives di erent answers according to the context in which the researcher is working. Cultural history is di erent for someone who is studying gendered constructions of identity in sixteenth century Prussia as compared with someone studying the everyday spatial practices in a South American metropolis of 21st century. And yet, each of these researchers will recognise the ‘cultural history’ in the works of the other. It is perhaps because of this introspective process that it was decided that an international version of the book should also be produced, not so much to impress on others our own view of cultural history, but more in order to invite others to take part in these discussions. e authors of the original book were invited to express their interest in preparing an English-language version of their article. An anonymous board of referees then helped the editors to choose a selection of essays that should be included in the nal book; my thanks go to the members of that board who took on themselves the thankless task of choosing which of the excellent contributions to leave out and which should be included. At this point, Prof. Bruce Johnson was invited to take part in the editing process. e individual essays were then submitted to further peer review, the results of which are seen in the eight articles appearing in this book. Consequently, this is not the same book as the the one edited by Heli Rantala and Sakari Ollitervo but nonetheless it would not exist without its Finnish-language predecessor. is collection of essays did not emerge out of thin air, but from a ‘point of convergence’ which was provided by the excellent editorial work on the original articles. Our grateful thanks to Rantala and Ollitervo for their work. Without Bruce Johnson, this book would be much less of a book than it is. His experience, vision and enthusiasm set the standard for book production very high, and I feel privileged to have been a part of that production process. ank You, Bruce, for everything! Harri Kiiskinen viii List of Contributors Mervi Autti (PhD) is working now at the Unit for Gender Studies, Uni- versity of Lapland, Rovaniemi. Her doctoral thesis on art ‘Women on their Own: Single Female Photographers of Rovaniemi at the Beginning of the 1900s’ is multidisciplinary and interdisciplin- ary. She has developed a special method of historiography that utilizes expressions of art – historical documentaries and photo- graphic exhibitions. She has published several articles on the topic of microhistorical study of female photographers. Her interdiscip- linary approach has its background in her previous profession as a photographer. Ritva Hapuli (PhD) is docent in Cultural History. She acted as the su- pervisor in the project A Pen of One’s Own – Cultural History of Women’s Writing, 1880-1950, funded by e Finnish Academy, 2001-2005. e project concentrated on the spiritual and material conditions of women writers, concerning their private and pub- lished materials. Her own studies deal with Finnish female travel writers and theirs texts: Ulkomailla (Abroad. e World between the two World Wars Seen by the Finnish Female Travellers, 2003) and Matkalla kotona (Study on the Writer and Translator Kyllikki Villa’s Travel Diaries, 2008). Her most resent research interests focus on questions what kind of textual strategies (travel) writers use to represent their presence and roles as eyewitnesses even at the most terrible actions against other people. What are ethical consequences of these descriptions; or are there any? ix Bruce Johnson formerly a Professor in English, is now Adjunct Professor, Contemporary Music Studies, Macquarie University Sydney; Hon- orary Professor, Music, University of Glasgow; Visiting Professor, Cultural History, University of Turku. His current research lies in acoustic cultural history and the role of sound in the emergence of modernity. A jazz musician, broadcaster, record producer and arts policy advisor, he was prime mover in the establishment of the Australian Jazz Archive, and is co-founder of the International Institute for Popular Culture based in Turku. His publications include e Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz, and most recently (with Martin Cloonan) Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence (2008), and an edited collection Earogenous Zones: Sound, Sexuality and Cinema (2010). Marjo Kaartinen (Ph.D.) is professor of cultural history at the Univer- sity of Turku. She has published especially on English early modern cultural history. She has won an award for her work against racism, and was the Scholar of the Year in Finland in 2006. Her books include Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation (Pal- grave 2002). She has also written on women’s history, and racism in Finland. Her current projects include the history of childhood and emotions, friendship, and the history of the body on which her monograph Cancer in the Breast. e Cultural History of an Eighteenth-Century Illness will soon be published. Kari Kallioniemi (PhD) is docent of cultural history and lecturer in Cultural History, University of Turku. He has specialised on the history of popular culture, and is currently writing a book on the history of stardom. Kimi Kärki (Phil. Lic.) is the coordinator of Turku Institute for Ad- vanced Studies. He also coordinates European master’s programme European Heritage, Digital Media and the Information Society, which aims at building new bridges between cultural content, his- torical heritage and information technology. He is also a member of Academy of Finland project e Starnet: Changing Discourses of Popular Music Stardom, funded 2005—2008. is project goes x on as a research group within the International Institute for Popular Culture, http://iipc.utu./. His PhD work-in-progress is about the stadium rock stage design, stardom and aesthetics. During 2006 he spent six months as a Research Fellow in Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool, UK. He has written articles and edited several books on cultural history, popular music studies, and cultural integration, and is the editor of IIPC Online Series. He is based to Department of Cultural History, University of Turku. Visit his homepage at http://users.utu./kierka/. Harri Kiiskinen (MA) is doctoral student in cultural history, University of Turku. He is preparing his PhD-dissertation in the production and commerce of pottery in the area of Roman Etruria during the rst centuries CE. His research interest include GIS and quantitative methods in cultural history, practices of trade and commerce, and economic activities in general. Maarit Leskelä-Kärki (PhD) works at the moment as a post-doctoral re- searcher at Turku Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Turku. She is a cultural historian, and her thesis in 2006 dealt with the literary lives of three Krohn sisters. Her main research areas focus on the history of women’s writing, gender history, autobiographical sources and methodological questions concerning life-writing re- search. Currently, she works with women’s biographical tradition in Finland between 1890 and 1980.
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