{"title":"Migrant Finns: A Local, Multidisciplinary Overview","authors":"P. Antola","doi":"10.23991/ef.v49i1.107656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v49i1.107656","url":null,"abstract":"Marjatta Huhta has selected an ethnologically intriguing subject by researching regional migration and Finns living abroad in the context of regional studies. She is senior lecturer emerita at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, a Doctor of Science (Technology) and a returnee herself: she was an exchange student in the Unites States in 1967–1968 and completed her master ́s degree in Sweden in 1969–1972. During her career, she has studied language and communication challenges in the working world and developed methods to identify communication needs in business (e.g. Huhta et al. 2013). Marjatta Huhta’s father served as a parson of the Konginkangas congregation, in central Finland, in the years 1953–1955. Huhta and her family has also had a summer cottage by Lake Keitele in Konginkangas since 1972. She retired there in 2016. The idea to introduce Konginkangas returnees came from Matti K. Suojanen (1937–2003), professor of Finnish language at the University of Tampere, who himself was born in Konginkangas and active in the local heritage society, Kömin Kilta (est. 1948). He launched a regional newsletter in 1999 and introduced Konginkangas returnees as one of the topics of that newsletter. Kömin Kilta accepted the challenge of conducting migrant research, and the idea matured into an extensive ethnological study led by Marjatta Huhta. With assistance from nine members of Kömin Kilta’s editorial board, Marjatta Huhta became interested in surveying the Finnish expatriate experiences of migrants and returnees in Konginkangas. The main focus of the project, entitled ‘From Konginkangas to the world’, is to understand Finnish migration and Finns living abroad through individual experience between the years 1890 and 1990. Professor of Ethnology Pirjo Korkiakangas, from the University of Jyväskylä, worked as an expert member on the project and also wrote one chapter of the book. The book is a collection of individual stories and explains how local migrants and Finns abroad relate to Finnish migration as an international phenomenon. The book also","PeriodicalId":211215,"journal":{"name":"Ethnologia Fennica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130953194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studying Industrial Oral History during the Pandemic – Ethical and Methodological Questions","authors":"Pete Pesonen, Kirsti Salmi-Niklander","doi":"10.23991/ef.v49i1.113030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v49i1.113030","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses an oral history project that examines homer production at the Högfors Ironworks in Karkkila. This was a cooperative project of the University of Helsinki, the Finnish Labour Archives and the Finnish Foundry Museum in Karkkila. A “homer” (firabeli in Finnish) is an object made for one’s own benefit by a worker using his or her factory’s equipment and materials. The article focuses on ethical and methodological issues affecting the study of industrial oral history during the COVID-19 pandemic. What kind of practical and ethical challenges were faced, how could they be solved and how did they affect a project? These issues are reflected in relation to recent academic discussions on conducting oral history interviews during the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic affected the process in numerous ways. The conducting of interviews required a unique solution based on the local services of Karkkila. The risks for interviewers and interviewees were minimized. However, the downside was that a video interview during the long pandemic period might have been a psychologically stressing experience for some interviewees. The interviewees’ ideas about homer practices were similar to those of the previous oral history collections. The major distinction between the Karkkila collection and the previous collections lies in the foundry industry itself.","PeriodicalId":211215,"journal":{"name":"Ethnologia Fennica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123507440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Museums in a changing world","authors":"Maria Vanha-Similä","doi":"10.23991/ef.v49i1.115932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v49i1.115932","url":null,"abstract":"Today, museums must respond quickly to global crises, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. These institutions also face new kinds of questions about citizenship and identity. Museums generalise and popularise information for the public, and in doing so, they can inadvertently push different groups, stories or objects of collection into the margins. This book, Marginaaleista museoihin (From margins to museums), discusses the responsibility of museum work. The aim of the publication is to look at the changes and challenges in both the museum field and museum work. It also discusses the connection between museums and academic research. The authors of the book are researchers and museum workers. Their anthology comprises 18 articles, consisting of longer research articles as well as shorter review pieces. The book contains three parts, beginning with theoretical and methodological chapters. The first part of the book, ‘Time and change in museums’ (Aika ja museoiden muutos), includes six articles. In the first chapter, Anna Rastas, Leila Koivunen and Kalle Kallio write about the development of museums. They define the concepts of marginalisation and marginalised groups and discuss important questions related to marginality. Whose histories are saved and told in museums? Whose stories, experiences and perspectives are left out? How can missing perspectives be made more visible? Even though museums collaborate with marginalised groups, such projects do not necessarily change the permanent practices of museums. As the authors tell it, the marginal themes promoted in museum exhibitions may not be of interest to many museum visitors. This presents a challenge because one of the key goals of museums is to increase the number of visitors. The strength of the article is that it clearly defines marginalisation. It is also important to write about the practical problems of museums, though. The writers do not offer direct solutions, but their observations do make readers think. Olga Davydova-Minguet, tenure-track researcher at the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland, writes about an extremely timely topic. In her article, she describes how Finns have reacted to the Russian-speaking","PeriodicalId":211215,"journal":{"name":"Ethnologia Fennica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122613302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To display or not to display?","authors":"Anne Heimo","doi":"10.23991/ef.v49i1.121477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v49i1.121477","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211215,"journal":{"name":"Ethnologia Fennica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127296120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pantry Memories","authors":"Matilda Marshall, Jón Þór Pétursson","doi":"10.23991/ef.v49i1.112209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v49i1.112209","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, references to “old-fashioned pantries” and “classic root cellars” have regularly popped up in real estate ads across Sweden as a potential selling point for people seeking new homes. The use of the words “classic” and “old-fashioned” indicates a shift in the thinking about traditional food storage spaces. In this article, we explore the recontextualization and emotionalization of traditional food storage spaces in Swedish society. We base our analysis on an open-ended questionnaire on food storage, preservation, and household preparedness directed to Swedish households. We investigate how our respondents have recounted and shaped embodied memories in the act of writing about past food storage: the different spaces, times, people, practices, emotions, and objects. Viewing these acts of remembering and writing about past food storage as emotional practices has led to an understanding of how emotional experience in the past is reinterpreted in the present. Seeing these acts as emotional practices illustrates the relational nature of emotions, where longing for past food storage spaces is one way to reflexively deal with contemporary issues by managing everyday life. Finally, we argue that reflexive nostalgia helps to create and interpret emotions – making past and present food storage meaningful.","PeriodicalId":211215,"journal":{"name":"Ethnologia Fennica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116699280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: Heritage and Personal Memories","authors":"Tuomas Hovi, M. Mäki, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio","doi":"10.23991/ef.v49i1.121988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v49i1.121988","url":null,"abstract":"representing of individual lives and memories in the context of heritage and heritagisation. Today, heritage and cultural institutions such as museums and archives are well aware of their social and political role and strive to increase ecological, cultural, and social sustainability (e.g., Gardner & Hamilton eds. 2017; Janes & Sandell 2019). Therefore, they constantly seek more democratic practices with respect to how people and communities are represented and by whom. One way of achieving these objectives is to increase the use of oral history and life writings in public history activities. Public history, especially in the Nordic context, is connected to earlier traditions such as labor history, social history, and “history from below” (e.g., Ashton & Trapeznik eds. 2019). In recent years, there has been a growing interest in personal heritage. In tourism studies, for instance, personal or mundane heritage has become a part of a tourist experience where people visit sites that have personal memory or particular family significance (Prince 2021, 20). In addition to national and transnational heritage, the interest in personal heritage and memories is seen as important and appealing. Besides tourism, this can be seen in different heritage and cultural institutions like museums. The idea for this theme issue emerged from the project “Paimio Sanatorium: Social, Historical and Cultural Perspectives” at the University of Turku. In the commentary text of this issue Anne Heimo describes the multidimensional situation of the heritagisation of the sanatorium and the possibilities to utilize personal memories in the research, but also in displays and other public activities in the place that can be described as a dark heritage site. In our themed call “Heritage and Personal Memories” we asked for articles discussing various ways of using oral history and personal memories in public history activities and participatory processes. We were interested in how applied ethnographic work and ethnological research affect these activities. Editorial Heritage and Personal Memories Tuomas Hovi, Maija Mäki, Kirsi Sonck-Rautio","PeriodicalId":211215,"journal":{"name":"Ethnologia Fennica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121299153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queer Perspective on Sexuality and Normality in Folk Legends","authors":"Maria Bäckman","doi":"10.23991/ef.v48i2.109083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v48i2.109083","url":null,"abstract":"Already on the third page of her well-written and in many ways fascinating thesis, Catarina Harjunen points out the main subject of the study. The overarching aim is to introduce, describe and analyse Finland-Swedish folklore about erotic encounters between humans and nature spirits, and thereby examine ideas of normality expressed in folk legends. Therefore, the legends are studied both with reference to how they co-exist with sexuality and gender, and with notions of nature and culture. The empirical base consists of more than a hundred (116) folk legends that Harjunen has found in archives and collections. As stated in the title, the thesis focuses on presumed erotic encounters between human beings and nature itself, and with “erotic”, Harjunen means a spectrum which starts at a slightly intangible “ambience” and ends with “results”, i.e. the children produced in the encounters’. This creates a chronological approach to the material, the folk legends and their motifs, which recurs in the outline of the empirical chapters and, at the same time, reflects a contemporary view of the ideal development of a relationship between a man and a woman within the field of sexuality. In the empirical parts of the thesis, the presentation is thus structured by the following stepping stones: meeting, courtship, sexual interaction (and more seldom: marriage) and (the even more rarely occurring) offspring. Two major research questions have guided the author in her work. The first is: how are normative sexual desires, practices and forms of relationships constructed in the realm of erotic encounters in legends? The second, addressing the same context, reads: in which ways does sexuality appear to be linked to nature? These two overarching issues are accompanied by the observation that sexuality has often been described as something “natural”, while unwanted sexuality has almost regularly been portrayed as being “against nature”. In this very contradiction, Harjunen argues, lies one of most fundamental theoretical inputs of the thesis, namely thinking critically about legitimate forms of","PeriodicalId":211215,"journal":{"name":"Ethnologia Fennica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133512469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behind the Scene","authors":"I. Lehtinen","doi":"10.23991/ef.v48i2.103024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v48i2.103024","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I analyze teacher’s attire as a political phenomenon in the context of the Mari people, a Finno-Ugric minority living in Central Russia. The material for this study is based on observations and interviews made by the author during 1987‒2019 in different places of the Mari region. The Mari teacher’s dress code, a dark dress with a white collar, is usually considered self-evident, but as I argue in this article, in the Soviet Union, and in Russia at the post-socialist time, the Mari female teacher’s dress served two practices. Firstly, clothing represented position and agency of power, the socialist ideal, and later the political trend of the majority. Secondly, clothing represented traditional, everyday Mari life.\u0000\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":211215,"journal":{"name":"Ethnologia Fennica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125441016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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