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Ancient buoyancy devices in Sweden

Floats Made of Reed, Club-Rush, Inflated Skins and Animal Bladders

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ID5969945
AuthorsIsak Lidström (Malmö University, corresponding author), Ingvar Svanberg (0000-0002-8378-7923, Uppsala University)
Year2019
Volume57
Issue2
Pages85-94
Publication date2019-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFolk Life (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0430-8778 • E-ISSN: 1759-670X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/04308778.2019.1646390
OpenAlexW2964761030
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited3

This article sets out to discuss the material culture of traditional physical education from an ethnobiological point of view. The focus is on the use of reed, Phragmites australis Trin. ex Steud., club-rush, Schoenoplectus lacustris L., inflated skins and animal bladders when making buoyancy devices used by children and adolescents for learning to swim. As these teaching methods occurred from thousands of years ago up to very recently, it is argued that child-related practices connected with the bio-cultural domain and arising out of human-biota interaction have noticeably transcended time and societal changes

Archaeology · Art · Biology · Biota · Buoyancy · Club · Environmental ethics · Geography · Indigenous · Phragmites · Visual arts · Wetland · Ecology · History · Paleontology · Philosophy · Social and Educational Sciences

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