Tom O’dell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3469868 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tom O’dell |
| PRENOMES | Tom |
| SOBRENOME | O’dell |
| ASSINATURA | O’DELL T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3242-759X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Revitalisation of Cultural Heritage and Traditional Crafts
Gamlegård farm at the Kulturens Östarp open-air museum, the von Echstedtska Manor farm at Värmland’s Museum, and Oktorpsgården farm at the Skansen open-air museum are three disparate farmhouses scattered across southern Sweden whose histories have very different trajectories. What unites them are their roofs, a craft, and a man. They are all buildings considered essential expressions of Swedish cultural heritage, with thatched roofs laid by the s…
Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets
Focusing on how museums prioritize and produce content, Hip Heritage demonstrates how economic issues play an ever-larger role in determining how cultural heritage is being framed and presented in contemporary heritage museums. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the authors at seven museums over the course of five years, this book offers an in-depth analysis of heritage museums in Nordic, Scandinavian and North American contexts. It i…
Heritagelore and an Introduction to the Thematic Issue on Culture and Heritage under Construction
Taking inspiration in Barbro Klein's work, this article focuses on the production of a particular type of institutional lore that we call heritagelore. Heritagelore, as we are advancing the concept here, is composed of the discursive practices within the walls and the organizations of museums. It is the lore that shapes and at least partially structures the types of stories that directors, museum boards, curators, programing staff, and other muse…
Imagining Personal Data
Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking for how we inhabit, experience and imagine our everyday worlds and futures. Through a focus on how it feels to live in environments where data is emergent, present and characterized by a sense of uncertainty, the authors argue for a new interdisciplinary app…
Striving to Grow
Research Article| October 01 2018 Striving to Grow: The Challenge of Re-imagining Nordic Heritage in North America Lizette Gradén; Lizette Gradén Lund University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tom O'Dell Tom O'Dell Lund University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2018) 90 (3): 436–460. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.90.3.0436 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
Introduction
Research Article| October 01 2018 Introduction: Museums and the Performance of Heritage in Nordic Contexts Lizette Gradén; Lizette Gradén Lund University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tom O'Dell Tom O'Dell Lund University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2018) 90 (3): 311–330. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.90.3.0311 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions …
Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice
Multi-targeted ethnography and the Challenge of Engaging New Audiences and Publics
This article focuses upon and problematizes the manner in which anthropologists and ethnologists have traditionally striven to communicate and share the knowledge they have gained through fieldwork. It does so by presenting and discussing the concept of multi-targeted ethnography, a move which implies a switch in perspectives that emphasizes distributive rather than accumulative modes of the ethnographic endeavor. In so doing, the objective of th…
Applied Cultural Analysis
Folke sits on a two-meter-high chair in the corner of a Norwegian man’s kitchen, observing, taking notes, and drawing up diagrams. Both he and the man he studies have been given clear instructions: the observer must be allowed to come and go as he pleases, must not be spoken to, and must never be included in the daily chores or routines of the people he is supposed to be studying. But things don’t go as planned.
Transcription and the Senses
Focusing upon the act of transcription, this article argues for a need to push sensory ethnography further into the realm of analysis, with a greater attention to the question of how the senses can be better included in the analytical process that ever includes the entanglement of methods, materials, and theory. This article problematizes the technology of the page and argues for a need for scholars to understand transcription as much more than a…
Demanding hosts and ungrateful guests – the everyday drama of public transportation in three acts and academic prose
In their own view, public transportation companies make a very hospitable offer to commuters: if you are ready to travel with us, we will take you for a reasonable price nearly anywhere, every day and almost at any time of the day, under good conditions of comfort and safety. Please, step onboard. But commuters resist being reduced to the thankful guests of their commuting service providers. Commuting is an experience whose rhythm structures dail…
Mobile Homes & Subway Origami
Commuting is not the form of mobility that people first speak about when referring to life changing events, or key moments in the constitution of their cultural identities, but it is here, in mundane moments of mobility (and immobility) that people develop both a cultural and corporal perception of the state of their lives and the world around them. This article briefly sketches out some of the cultural dynamics embedded in the routines of commut…
Composing Ethnography
Ethnography involves a series of competencies, methods, and theoretically anchored stances whose composition shift as they are moved from one context to another. This article works to delineate new ways of explaining the manner in which academics have tended to work with ethnographic practices in an attempt to produce illuminative cultural analyses. As part of this endeavor the text goes beyond the realms of the traditional classroom setting to e…
Irregular Ethnographies an Introduction
Backdrafts
In November of 1989 I received a letter from Prague that was sent to me by a friend, Renata. As I opened the envelope I was surprised to find that in addition to a letter, Renata had included a bell, about the size of a thimble, hung from a thin red ribbon. It was made out of a simple ceramic material and lacked any sort of ornamentation. As bells go, this was a modest object. However, what I held in my hands was more than a cheap bell, it was th…
Culture Unbound
Hippies and Swedish modernity
Hip heritage and contemporary tastes. Packaging the Nordic in the American cultural market
This article focuses on two institutions, the American Swedish Institute and the Nordic Heritage Museum that have spent the first part of the twenty-first century thinking and rethinking what the heritage under their auspices can be. In doing this, the text problematizes the manner in which elements of Nordic history and identity are being re-thought and re-framed in the cultural and economic context of the American heritage market. The article a…
Composing Ethnography
Ethnography involves a series of competencies, methods, and theoretically anchored stances whose composition shift as they are moved from one context to another. This article works to delineate new ways of explaining the manner in which academics have tended to work with ethnographic practices in an attempt to produce illuminative cultural analyses. As part of this endeavor the text goes beyond the realms of the traditional classroom setting to e…
Transcription and the Senses
Focusing upon the act of transcription, this article argues for a need to push sensory ethnography further into the realm of analysis, with a greater attention to the question of how the senses can be better included in the analytical process that ever includes the entanglement of methods, materials, and theory. This article problematizes the technology of the page and argues for a need for scholars to understand transcription as much more than a…
Hip heritage and contemporary tastes. Packaging the Nordic in the American cultural market
This article focuses on two institutions, the American Swedish Institute and the Nordic Heritage Museum that have spent the first part of the twenty-first century thinking and rethinking what the heritage under their auspices can be. In doing this, the text problematizes the manner in which elements of Nordic history and identity are being re-thought and re-framed in the cultural and economic context of the American heritage market. The article a…
Hippies and Swedish modernity
Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets
Focusing on how museums prioritize and produce content, Hip Heritage demonstrates how economic issues play an ever-larger role in determining how cultural heritage is being framed and presented in contemporary heritage museums. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the authors at seven museums over the course of five years, this book offers an in-depth analysis of heritage museums in Nordic, Scandinavian and North American contexts. It i…
Demanding hosts and ungrateful guests – the everyday drama of public transportation in three acts and academic prose
In their own view, public transportation companies make a very hospitable offer to commuters: if you are ready to travel with us, we will take you for a reasonable price nearly anywhere, every day and almost at any time of the day, under good conditions of comfort and safety. Please, step onboard. But commuters resist being reduced to the thankful guests of their commuting service providers. Commuting is an experience whose rhythm structures dail…
Hip heritage and contemporary tastes. Packaging the Nordic in the American cultural market
This article focuses on two institutions, the American Swedish Institute and the Nordic Heritage Museum that have spent the first part of the twenty-first century thinking and rethinking what the heritage under their auspices can be. In doing this, the text problematizes the manner in which elements of Nordic history and identity are being re-thought and re-framed in the cultural and economic context of the American heritage market. The article a…
Hippies and Swedish modernity
Culture Unbound
Backdrafts
In November of 1989 I received a letter from Prague that was sent to me by a friend, Renata. As I opened the envelope I was surprised to find that in addition to a letter, Renata had included a bell, about the size of a thimble, hung from a thin red ribbon. It was made out of a simple ceramic material and lacked any sort of ornamentation. As bells go, this was a modest object. However, what I held in my hands was more than a cheap bell, it was th…
Mobile Homes & Subway Origami
Commuting is not the form of mobility that people first speak about when referring to life changing events, or key moments in the constitution of their cultural identities, but it is here, in mundane moments of mobility (and immobility) that people develop both a cultural and corporal perception of the state of their lives and the world around them. This article briefly sketches out some of the cultural dynamics embedded in the routines of commut…
Composing Ethnography
Ethnography involves a series of competencies, methods, and theoretically anchored stances whose composition shift as they are moved from one context to another. This article works to delineate new ways of explaining the manner in which academics have tended to work with ethnographic practices in an attempt to produce illuminative cultural analyses. As part of this endeavor the text goes beyond the realms of the traditional classroom setting to e…
Irregular Ethnographies an Introduction
Demanding hosts and ungrateful guests – the everyday drama of public transportation in three acts and academic prose
In their own view, public transportation companies make a very hospitable offer to commuters: if you are ready to travel with us, we will take you for a reasonable price nearly anywhere, every day and almost at any time of the day, under good conditions of comfort and safety. Please, step onboard. But commuters resist being reduced to the thankful guests of their commuting service providers. Commuting is an experience whose rhythm structures dail…
Transcription and the Senses
Focusing upon the act of transcription, this article argues for a need to push sensory ethnography further into the realm of analysis, with a greater attention to the question of how the senses can be better included in the analytical process that ever includes the entanglement of methods, materials, and theory. This article problematizes the technology of the page and argues for a need for scholars to understand transcription as much more than a…
Applied Cultural Analysis
Folke sits on a two-meter-high chair in the corner of a Norwegian man’s kitchen, observing, taking notes, and drawing up diagrams. Both he and the man he studies have been given clear instructions: the observer must be allowed to come and go as he pleases, must not be spoken to, and must never be included in the daily chores or routines of the people he is supposed to be studying. But things don’t go as planned.
Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice
Multi-targeted ethnography and the Challenge of Engaging New Audiences and Publics
This article focuses upon and problematizes the manner in which anthropologists and ethnologists have traditionally striven to communicate and share the knowledge they have gained through fieldwork. It does so by presenting and discussing the concept of multi-targeted ethnography, a move which implies a switch in perspectives that emphasizes distributive rather than accumulative modes of the ethnographic endeavor. In so doing, the objective of th…
Striving to Grow
Research Article| October 01 2018 Striving to Grow: The Challenge of Re-imagining Nordic Heritage in North America Lizette Gradén; Lizette Gradén Lund University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tom O'Dell Tom O'Dell Lund University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2018) 90 (3): 436–460. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.90.3.0436 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
Introduction
Research Article| October 01 2018 Introduction: Museums and the Performance of Heritage in Nordic Contexts Lizette Gradén; Lizette Gradén Lund University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tom O'Dell Tom O'Dell Lund University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2018) 90 (3): 311–330. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.90.3.0311 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions …
Imagining Personal Data
Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking for how we inhabit, experience and imagine our everyday worlds and futures. Through a focus on how it feels to live in environments where data is emergent, present and characterized by a sense of uncertainty, the authors argue for a new interdisciplinary app…
Heritagelore and an Introduction to the Thematic Issue on Culture and Heritage under Construction
Taking inspiration in Barbro Klein's work, this article focuses on the production of a particular type of institutional lore that we call heritagelore. Heritagelore, as we are advancing the concept here, is composed of the discursive practices within the walls and the organizations of museums. It is the lore that shapes and at least partially structures the types of stories that directors, museum boards, curators, programing staff, and other muse…
Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets
Focusing on how museums prioritize and produce content, Hip Heritage demonstrates how economic issues play an ever-larger role in determining how cultural heritage is being framed and presented in contemporary heritage museums. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the authors at seven museums over the course of five years, this book offers an in-depth analysis of heritage museums in Nordic, Scandinavian and North American contexts. It i…
The Revitalisation of Cultural Heritage and Traditional Crafts
Gamlegård farm at the Kulturens Östarp open-air museum, the von Echstedtska Manor farm at Värmland’s Museum, and Oktorpsgården farm at the Skansen open-air museum are three disparate farmhouses scattered across southern Sweden whose histories have very different trajectories. What unites them are their roofs, a craft, and a man. They are all buildings considered essential expressions of Swedish cultural heritage, with thatched roofs laid by the s…
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