Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie

Schweden. Ambiguitäten verhandeln. Tolerieren als soziale und kulturelle Praxis

Edited by Heidrun Alzheimer Edited by Sabine Doering-Manteuffel Edited by Daniel Drascek Edited by Angela Treiber

Book cover: Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie

Extent: 264 pages

Publisher: Brill | Schöningh

Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(May 2023)

ISBN: 9783506790880

6.3 x 9.45 inches

Price: $58.00

Out of stock

The Swedish stereotype of the Germans is characterised by Bullerbu, IKEA, Lucia customs and Midsummer Night. The reality of a country in which Christians try to assert themselves in a mostly secular context shaped by ideas of equality and in which contradictory legal systems on surrogacy lead to new kinship grammars is largely ignored. The contributions assembled here illuminate the social discourses from a European-ethnological perspective. With overviews of narrative research and current museum discussions, the volume delves into classic topics of Scandinavian subject history. The second focus documents the discussions of the online conference “Negotiating Ambiguities. Tolerance as Social and Cultural Practice) of the European Ethnology and Sociology sections of the Gorres-Society in autumn 2021. Tolerance was evaluated there in different historical, economic, religious, ideological and scientific contexts as a virtue, as an attitude (respect), as a social standard, or as weakness, not least as an instrument of power.

  • Edited by Heidrun Alzheimer
  • Edited by Sabine Doering-Manteuffel
  • Edited by Daniel Drascek
  • Edited by Angela Treiber