Barbro Klein
Biographic Data
| ID | 109842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbro Klein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbro |
| FAMILY NAME | Klein |
| SIGNATURE | KLEIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9986-3118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Folklore
Women and the Formation of Swedish Folklife Research
This assessment of the role of women in Swedish folklife research (or ethnology) begins with the decades before 1900 and ends with the present. Paying special attention to the Nordiska museet in Stockholm (founded 1873) and shifting between portraits of individual actors and comparative generalizations, the article demonstrates that reformist middle-class women were essential in shaping the research topics and exhibitions at the Nordiska museet a…
Om att inspireras och om att åstadkomma en kreativ forskningsmiljö
This essay concerns the meeting between Billy Ehn and Barbro Klein in 1984 at the Institute for Folklife Research in Stockholm to which both had returned after long absences. The text describes how we inspired each other as scholars and teachers and how we arranged the seminars on reflexivity that eventually led to ‘From experience to text’. This book came to have an unforeseen impact. A conclusion is that the unexpected constellation of energies…
Fantasy Flowers and Mysterious Cities: Winter Carl Hansson and Dalecarlian Folk Art circa 1800
During the late eighteenth century, folk art developed in new and intriguing ways in several Scandinavian regions. This essay concentrates on the developments around Lake Siljan in Dalarna, primarily as they were expressed by Winter Carl Hansson, one of the most accomplished of the artists. In his renditions of biblical topics such as the Workers in the Vineyard and the Descent from the Cross, one may observe a skilful blending of religious myste…
When women held the dragon's tongue and other essays in historical anthropology - By Hermann Rebel
Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science
The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science
More than perhaps anybody else in the world, the Swedish political scientist and sociologist Björn Wittrock has contributed - both on the intellectual and institutional level - to making a truly global social science possible. This volume contains contributions from twenty-six world-renowned scholars who address different aspects of his ambitious research program as well as current trends in the institutionalization of the social and human scienc…
Cultural heritage, cultural diversity and museums in Sweden: Some Critical Reflections
Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity
La folkloristique, une discipline mère
En Suède, les recherches sur le folklore constituent une partie des activités de la recherche en ethnologie. L'accent est mis dans cet article sur la relation controversée et souvent difficile entre la folkloristique à proprement parler et l'ethnologie générale. On verra que cette relation a eu une influence profonde sur l'ethnologie suédoise dans son ensemble et qu'elle a contribué à lui conférer certains de ses traits distinctifs
Creating Diversities: Folklore, Religion and the Politics of Heritage
The effects of globalization and the momentous changes to the political map of Europe have led to a world in which multiculturalism and ethnic differences have become issues of increasing importance. In Nordic countries, relationships between new immigrants, local ethnic groups and majorities are created in ongoing and sometimes heated discussions. In transforming multicultural societies, folklore has taken on new manifestations and meanings. How…
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare (review)
Reviewed by: Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare Barbro Klein Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare. By Charles L. Briggs with Clara Mantini-Briggs. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi + 430, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, index.) In August 1992, cholera broke out in Mariusa, a community in the Venezuelan Orinoco delta primarily inhabite…
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare
Book Review| January 01 2007 Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare, Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs. Barbro Klein Barbro Klein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2007) 120 (475): 102–103. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137877 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
Narrating, Doing, Experiencing: Nordic Folkloristic Perspectives
When folklore study was emerging as a fi eld in Europe during the early and middle decades of the nineteenth century, a hierarchy of narrative genres was developed.Some genres, such as wondertales (or Märchen), myths, fables, ballads, fablieaux and saints' legends were at the center of interest while historical or supernatural legends were placed further down on the ladder.But many genres that folklorists recognize today, were not considered "rea…
Silences, Cultural Historical Museums, and Jewish Life in Sweden
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A World of Nations: Notes on Internationalism, Ethnie Diversity and Folklore Scholarship in Four Countries
Two particular problems are the focus of this article. One is that nations differ dramatically not only with regard to the ethnic diversity within their borders and the diversity politics pursued, but also with regard to the ways in which folklore scholars understand diversity, nationalism, and internationalism. The other concerns the differences between nations according to the premises for and the ideals of scholarship. These problems and issue…
The Moral Content of Tradition: Homecraft, Ethnology, and Swedish Life in the Twentieth Century
During 1970s, young Swedish folklife researchers worked hard to sever already weakening links between their field and old peasant (det gamla bondesamhallet).1 Renamed ethnology, discipline was to be liberated from its role as handmaiden of cultural historical museums and folkmusic, folkdance, local history (hembygd), and (hemslojd) movements.2 Young sociologically and anthropologically oriented scholars such as Ake Daun, Jonas Frykman, and Orvar …
Gatan ar var! Ritualer pa offentliga plaster
Nordic Folklore: Recent Studies
it presents some of the most important folklore studies to appear in [Nordic] countries in the past thirty years. -The Scandinavian-American Bulletin . . . will . . . be of interest to folklorists in general. The selected essays . . . deal with issues that any folklorist who wishes to be up-to-date must consider. . . . A valuable addition to folklore studies . . . -Choice Nordic folklore studies have made major theoretical contributions to intern…
Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle Class Life
Folkmusikvagen--The Folk Music Vogue
Swedish Folklife Research in the 1980s
During the lastfew decades, Swedish folklife research has increasingly departed from its earlier emphasis on the material aspects ofpeasant culture. The important recent works assessed in this review call attention to the close relationship between folklife research and social planning and cultural politics in Sweden. The works reviewed are further united by their explicit or implicit critique of the negative aspects of the welfare state
The Testimony of the Button
The Moral Content of Tradition: Homecraft, Ethnology, and Swedish Life in the Twentieth Century
During 1970s, young Swedish folklife researchers worked hard to sever already weakening links between their field and old peasant (det gamla bondesamhallet).1 Renamed ethnology, discipline was to be liberated from its role as handmaiden of cultural historical museums and folkmusic, folkdance, local history (hembygd), and (hemslojd) movements.2 Young sociologically and anthropologically oriented scholars such as Ake Daun, Jonas Frykman, and Orvar …
Swedish Folklife Research in the 1980s
During the lastfew decades, Swedish folklife research has increasingly departed from its earlier emphasis on the material aspects ofpeasant culture. The important recent works assessed in this review call attention to the close relationship between folklife research and social planning and cultural politics in Sweden. The works reviewed are further united by their explicit or implicit critique of the negative aspects of the welfare state
Narrating, Doing, Experiencing: Nordic Folkloristic Perspectives
When folklore study was emerging as a fi eld in Europe during the early and middle decades of the nineteenth century, a hierarchy of narrative genres was developed.Some genres, such as wondertales (or Märchen), myths, fables, ballads, fablieaux and saints' legends were at the center of interest while historical or supernatural legends were placed further down on the ladder.But many genres that folklorists recognize today, were not considered "rea…
The Testimony of the Button
Women and the Formation of Swedish Folklife Research
This assessment of the role of women in Swedish folklife research (or ethnology) begins with the decades before 1900 and ends with the present. Paying special attention to the Nordiska museet in Stockholm (founded 1873) and shifting between portraits of individual actors and comparative generalizations, the article demonstrates that reformist middle-class women were essential in shaping the research topics and exhibitions at the Nordiska museet a…
La folkloristique, une discipline mère
En Suède, les recherches sur le folklore constituent une partie des activités de la recherche en ethnologie. L'accent est mis dans cet article sur la relation controversée et souvent difficile entre la folkloristique à proprement parler et l'ethnologie générale. On verra que cette relation a eu une influence profonde sur l'ethnologie suédoise dans son ensemble et qu'elle a contribué à lui conférer certains de ses traits distinctifs
Silences, Cultural Historical Museums, and Jewish Life in Sweden
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The Testimony of the Button
Swedish Folklife Research in the 1980s
During the lastfew decades, Swedish folklife research has increasingly departed from its earlier emphasis on the material aspects ofpeasant culture. The important recent works assessed in this review call attention to the close relationship between folklife research and social planning and cultural politics in Sweden. The works reviewed are further united by their explicit or implicit critique of the negative aspects of the welfare state
Folkmusikvagen--The Folk Music Vogue
Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle Class Life
Nordic Folklore: Recent Studies
it presents some of the most important folklore studies to appear in [Nordic] countries in the past thirty years. -The Scandinavian-American Bulletin . . . will . . . be of interest to folklorists in general. The selected essays . . . deal with issues that any folklorist who wishes to be up-to-date must consider. . . . A valuable addition to folklore studies . . . -Choice Nordic folklore studies have made major theoretical contributions to intern…
Gatan ar var! Ritualer pa offentliga plaster
The Moral Content of Tradition: Homecraft, Ethnology, and Swedish Life in the Twentieth Century
During 1970s, young Swedish folklife researchers worked hard to sever already weakening links between their field and old peasant (det gamla bondesamhallet).1 Renamed ethnology, discipline was to be liberated from its role as handmaiden of cultural historical museums and folkmusic, folkdance, local history (hembygd), and (hemslojd) movements.2 Young sociologically and anthropologically oriented scholars such as Ake Daun, Jonas Frykman, and Orvar …
A World of Nations: Notes on Internationalism, Ethnie Diversity and Folklore Scholarship in Four Countries
Two particular problems are the focus of this article. One is that nations differ dramatically not only with regard to the ethnic diversity within their borders and the diversity politics pursued, but also with regard to the ways in which folklore scholars understand diversity, nationalism, and internationalism. The other concerns the differences between nations according to the premises for and the ideals of scholarship. These problems and issue…
Silences, Cultural Historical Museums, and Jewish Life in Sweden
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Narrating, Doing, Experiencing: Nordic Folkloristic Perspectives
When folklore study was emerging as a fi eld in Europe during the early and middle decades of the nineteenth century, a hierarchy of narrative genres was developed.Some genres, such as wondertales (or Märchen), myths, fables, ballads, fablieaux and saints' legends were at the center of interest while historical or supernatural legends were placed further down on the ladder.But many genres that folklorists recognize today, were not considered "rea…
Creating Diversities: Folklore, Religion and the Politics of Heritage
The effects of globalization and the momentous changes to the political map of Europe have led to a world in which multiculturalism and ethnic differences have become issues of increasing importance. In Nordic countries, relationships between new immigrants, local ethnic groups and majorities are created in ongoing and sometimes heated discussions. In transforming multicultural societies, folklore has taken on new manifestations and meanings. How…
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare (review)
Reviewed by: Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare Barbro Klein Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare. By Charles L. Briggs with Clara Mantini-Briggs. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi + 430, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, index.) In August 1992, cholera broke out in Mariusa, a community in the Venezuelan Orinoco delta primarily inhabite…
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare
Book Review| January 01 2007 Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare, Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs. Barbro Klein Barbro Klein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2007) 120 (475): 102–103. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137877 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
Cultural heritage, cultural diversity and museums in Sweden: Some Critical Reflections
Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity
La folkloristique, une discipline mère
En Suède, les recherches sur le folklore constituent une partie des activités de la recherche en ethnologie. L'accent est mis dans cet article sur la relation controversée et souvent difficile entre la folkloristique à proprement parler et l'ethnologie générale. On verra que cette relation a eu une influence profonde sur l'ethnologie suédoise dans son ensemble et qu'elle a contribué à lui conférer certains de ses traits distinctifs
Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science
The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science
More than perhaps anybody else in the world, the Swedish political scientist and sociologist Björn Wittrock has contributed - both on the intellectual and institutional level - to making a truly global social science possible. This volume contains contributions from twenty-six world-renowned scholars who address different aspects of his ambitious research program as well as current trends in the institutionalization of the social and human scienc…
Om att inspireras och om att åstadkomma en kreativ forskningsmiljö
This essay concerns the meeting between Billy Ehn and Barbro Klein in 1984 at the Institute for Folklife Research in Stockholm to which both had returned after long absences. The text describes how we inspired each other as scholars and teachers and how we arranged the seminars on reflexivity that eventually led to ‘From experience to text’. This book came to have an unforeseen impact. A conclusion is that the unexpected constellation of energies…
Fantasy Flowers and Mysterious Cities: Winter Carl Hansson and Dalecarlian Folk Art circa 1800
During the late eighteenth century, folk art developed in new and intriguing ways in several Scandinavian regions. This essay concentrates on the developments around Lake Siljan in Dalarna, primarily as they were expressed by Winter Carl Hansson, one of the most accomplished of the artists. In his renditions of biblical topics such as the Workers in the Vineyard and the Descent from the Cross, one may observe a skilful blending of religious myste…
When women held the dragon's tongue and other essays in historical anthropology - By Hermann Rebel
Women and the Formation of Swedish Folklife Research
This assessment of the role of women in Swedish folklife research (or ethnology) begins with the decades before 1900 and ends with the present. Paying special attention to the Nordiska museet in Stockholm (founded 1873) and shifting between portraits of individual actors and comparative generalizations, the article demonstrates that reformist middle-class women were essential in shaping the research topics and exhibitions at the Nordiska museet a…
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