Sauna as Symbol

Society and Culture in Finland

L.M Edelsward (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

270 Seiten

1991
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-1395-2 (ISBN)

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Sauna as Symbol

L. M Edelsward

2001

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Every culture has a secret ingredient, and for Finnish culture and society it is the sauna. The sauna is an actual bath and bathhouse which in practical life brings people together in ways otherwise impossible. And the sauna as symbol brings together and integrates the many contradictory ideals and realities of Finnish society and culture. Through the sauna, nature and culture, the individual and society, the person and the polity, may be woven into an integral whole.

The Author: Lisa-Marlene Edelsward is a Canadian of Finnish and Swedish ancestry. After completing her undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia in Anthropology and Linguistics, she continued with graduate studies in Anthropology at McGill University. She has lived for three years in Finland and eight months in Africa (Cameroon). She is currently engaged in ethnographic field research in highland Sardinia, Italy.

Contents: The sauna as a window onto Finnish culture and society - Exploration of the Finnish world view and personality as well as the specific sauna rituals.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.1991
Reihe/Serie	American University Studies ; 53
Zusatzinfo	2 tabl.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8204-1395-X / 082041395X
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-1395-2 / 9780820413952
Zustand	Neuware