Sauna as Symbol

Society and Culture in Finland

L. M Edelsward (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

267 Seiten

2001 | 3rd Revised edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-2387-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Reihe/Serie	American University Studies ; 53
	American University Studies ; 53
	American University Studies - Series XI: Anthropology & Sociology ; 53
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8204-2387-4 / 0820423874
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-2387-6 / 9780820423876
Zustand	Neuware