Contents Papers på kulturarv i Finlands svenskbygder med folkmusik som exempel. Rev. by Patrik Sand- 3 Editorial. By Birgitta Svensson gren 5 Undesired Contacts. The Troubled Boundaries 167 Der Osten ist wie der Westen – Sofi Gerber, of Colonial Bodies in Greenland. By Sniff An- Öst är Väst men Väst är bäst. Östtysk dersen Nexø identitetsformering i det förenade Tyskland. 29 The Bog and the Beast. Museums, the Nation, Rev. by Petra Garberding and the Globe. By Peggy Levitt 171 The Upgrading of Wooden House Areas in 50 An Eighteenth-Century Tea Table. The Mate- Finnish Towns – Sanna Lillbroända-Annala, riality and Sociability of Tea and Coffee. By Från kåk till kulturarv. En etnologisk studie av Kari Telste omvärderingen av historiska trästadsområden i 64 Affective Ordering: On the Organization of Karleby och Ekenäs. Rev. by Gösta Arvastson Retrologies in Music Networks. By Sverker 175 Changing Communities of Pilots and Light- Hyltén-Cavallius & Lars Kaijser house Keepers – Harri Nyman, Uloimmalla 86 Family Land. Generational Succession and rannalla. Luotsija majakkamiesperheet ase- Property Transfer in Two Swedish Agricultur- mayhdyskunnissaan. [On the furthest shore. al Areas from 1870 to 2009. By Iréne A. Fly- Maritime pilot and lighthouse keeper families gare in their station communities.] Rev. by Katriina 101 Beyond the Village and Across Borders. Expe- Siivonen riences of Mobility in Rural Northern Finland. 177 Care and Control – Claes G. Olsson, Omsorg By Eeva Uusitalo & Kontroll. En handikapphistorisk studie 121 “Women are Free to Rampage as Much as 1750–1930. Föreställningar och levnads- They Like …” About Men who Suffer Inti- förhållanden. Rev. by Markus Idvall mate Partner Violence at the Hands of Female 179 The Wooden Past – Elina Salminen, Monta Partners. By Tove Fjell kuvaa menneisyydestä. [Cultural Heritage and 131 Images of Housewifery. Women narrating Images of the Past.] Rev. by Sirkku Pihlman their Choice to be a Housewife in the 1950s in 181 Twin Towns Görlitz/Zgorzelec – Marie Sand- the Swedish-speaking Parts of Finland. By berg, Grænsens nærvær og fravær. Europæise- Lena Marander-Eklund ringsprocesser i en tvillingeby på den polsk- 147 Walking the Streets of Suzhou. Approaching tyske grænse. Rev. by Maja Chacinska Urban Spaces through Embodied Experiences 183 Women in Trousers – Arja Turunen, “Hame, and Visual Interpretations. By Tiina-Riitta housut, hamehousut! Vai mikä on tulevaisuu- Lappi temme?” Naisten päällyshousujen käyttöä kos- kevat pukeutumisohjeet ja niissä rakentuvat naiseuden ihanteet suomalaisissa naistenleh- dissä 1889–1945. [“Skirt, trousers, divided skirt! Or what is our future?” How the ideals Biographical Note of womanhood were negotiated in the discus- 162 Lars-Eric Jönsson, Professor in Lund. By sion of female trouser–wearing in Finnish Anna-Maria Åström women’s magazines, 1889–1945.] Rev. by Maija Töyry Reviews BookReviews NewDissertations 186 Sites of Memory in Denmark – Inge Adrian- sen, Erindringssteder i Danmark. Monumen- 163 Older Women’s Lives – Anne Leonora Blaa- ter, mindesmærker og mødesteder. Rev. by Ulf kilde, Bedstemorsnak. Et kulturanalytisk stu- Zander die af ældre kvinders liv i dansk familiekultur i 187 Legends of War – Camilla Asplund Ingemark det 20. århundrede. Rev. by Inger Lövkrona, & Johanna Wassholm, Historiska sägner om Ulf Palmenfelt & Niels Jul Nielsen 1808–09 års krig. Rev. by Mirjaliisa Lukkari- 165 Folk Music as Intangible Heritage – Johanna nen Kvist Björkholm, Immateriellt kulturarv som be- 188 Collecting Field Material in the Nineteenth grepp och process. Folkloristiska perspektiv Century – Palle Ove Christiansen, De for- Ethnologia Scandinavica, Vol. 42, 2012 svundne. Hedens siste fortællere. Rev. by An- 201 People in the Cold War – Kriget som aldrig ders Gustavsson kom – 12 forskare om kalla kriget. Andreas 189 Deportation Home to Ingria – Toivo Flink, Linderoth (ed.). Rev. by Niels Jul Nielsen Kotiin karkotettavaksi. Inkeriläisen siirtoväen 202 Built Heritage as the Viewpoint of National palautukset Suomesta Neuvostoliittoon vuosi- History – Linnoista lähiöihin. Rakennetut na 1944–1955. Rev. by Pekka Leimu kulttuuriympäristöt Suomessa. Pinja Metsä- 192 Changing Cottage Culture in Norway – Norske ranta (ed.). Rev. by Aura Kivilaakso hytter i endring. Om bærekraft og behag. He- 203 Material Culture and the Materiality of Culture len Jøsok Gansmo, Thomas Berker & Finn – Materiell kultur og kulturens materialitet. Arne Jørgensen (eds.). Rev. by Eva Löfgren Saphinas-Amal Naguib & Bjarne Rogan 194 Methodology and Reflexivity – Etnografiska (eds.). Rev. by Richard Pettersson hållplatser. Om metodprocesser och reflexi- 207 Uses of History – Niels Kayser Nielsen, Histo- vitet. Kerstin Gunnemark (ed.). Rev. by Jo- riens forvandlinger. Historiebrug fra monu- hanna Björkholm menter til oplevelsesøkonomi. Rev. by Fredrik 195 Foreignness – Nordic Perspectives on Encoun- Skott 208 Analysing an Interview – Haastattelun analyy- tering Foreignness. Anne Folke Henningsen, si. Johanna Ruusuvuori, Pirjo Nikander & Leila Koivunen & Taina Syrjämaa (eds.). Rev. Matti Hyvärinen (eds.). Rev. by Pia Olsson by Göran Hedlund 209 Some History of Finnish Furnishings – Leena 195 Heritage and Cohesion – Heritage, Regional Sammallahti & Marja-Liisa Lehto, Kalusteita Development and Social Cohesion. Peter kamareihin. Suomalaisten keinutuolien ja pii- Kearns et al. (eds.). Rev. by Mikkel Venborg ronkien historiaa. Rev. by Sanna Eldén-Pehrs- Pedersen son 196 The Swedes of Finland – Sven-Erik Klink- 211 Swedish-Finnish Relations – Svenskfinska mann: I fänrikarnas, martallarnas och dixie- relationer. Språk, identitet och nationalitet ef- tigrarnas land. En resa genom det svenska i ter 1809. Maria Sjöberg & Birgitta Svensson Finland. Rev. by Gunnar Ternhag (eds.). Rev. by Ulrika Wolf-Knuts 198 Swedish Legend Types – Bengt af Klintberg, 212 The Materiality of Museum Objects – Fra kau- The Types of the Swedish Folk Legend. Rev. pang og bygd 2011. Festskrift til Ragnar Ped- by Ulrika Wolf-Knuts. ersen. Bjørn Sverre Hol Haugen et al. (eds.). 199 New Openings in European Ethnology – Eth- Rev. by Göran Hedlund nology in the 21st Century. Transnational Re- 213 Aristocratic Life in Finland – Kirsi flections of Past, Present and Future. Jussi Vainio-Korhonen, Sophie Creutz och hennes Lehtonen & Salla Tenkanen (eds.). Rev. by tid. Adelsliv i 1700-talets Finland. Rev. by Pirjo Nenola Eva Helen Ulvros 3 Editorial ByBirgittaSvensson This year’s Ethnologia Scandinavica ing diversity and encourage visitors to en- covers some of the many topics in ethno- gage with global issues. Ever since the logical research. The articles point in many leaders of the new French Republic opened different directions, but the main focus is the doors of the Louvre to the general pub- on studying cultural encounters, whether in lic, cultural institutions have played star- postcolonial contexts, in the transnational ring roles in the drama of nation building. borderlands of music, or in the immediate Her discussions are based on research on family. Relations between the sexes is an- museum professionals in the USA, Europe, other noticeable theme this year: the vari- Asia, and the Middle East, but her main fo- ous expressions of masculinities, women’s cus is on Sweden and Denmark. Her study choice to stay at home in the 1950s, and is- contributes to a discussion of how museum sues of the complex transfer of economic staff think about citizenship as well as glo- and cultural capital in family farming. balism versus nationalism. What this year’s articles have in common is Kari Telste’s article considers the Nor- the complexity of everyday life, whether it wegian museum landscape, but she too ap- is national or transnational, reflected in mu- plies a global perspective. Starting with an seum exhibitions, or taking shape in the pe- eighteenth-century tea table, she examines ripheral countryside of northern Finland, in the materiality and sociability of tea and an exotic Greenland, in Swedish agricul- coffee by showing how cultural exchanges ture, or in the cultural encounter that street can be studied through the consumption of life in a Chinese city represents for a Nor- new and exotic beverages like tea, coffee, dic visitor. and chocolate, imported from the Far East. Sniff Andersen Nexø starts by describ- By proceeding from seemingly limited ob- ing a cultural encounter at the last turn of jects, she shows how an understanding of the century, which resulted in proposals to sociomateriality can give insight into the displace Greenlandic women known for way habits and manners inspired by Eng- promiscuous behaviour to some nearby de- land and the continent were adapted to a sert islands during the season to prevent Norwegian way of life in complex interac- their contact with foreign men. Bodily con- tions between people and things. tacts were undesired by those who were as- Music too can be historicized, and in signed power to regulate colonial contact their article entitled “Affective Ordering”, zones. The author uses bodies as the type of Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius and Lars Kaijser contact zone that has been described by demonstrate how 1970s music is reformu- Marie Louise Pratt as imagined social lated in complex negotiations. Using Bruno spaces where different cultures meet and Latour’s sociomaterialistic theory of retrol- clash – in this context in highly asymmetri- ogy, they construct an analytical model for cal power relations, the surveillance of understanding the formation of history in bodies to prevent polluting culture.