Ajatuksia etnografiasta, kulkemisesta ja vakavasti ottamisesta : lectio praecursoria Jyväskylän yliopistossa 14.8.2020

2020

Etnografian reittejä kylien ajallisuuteen ja aineellisuuteen

2020

In my dissertation I have traced novel routes to village research by examining the transformation of the villages through the concepts of temporality and materiality. My research questions are: What kind of temporal trajectories have formed the villages? What kind of things, events, processes or connections have in the course of time been part of the village? I examine the transformations having taken place along various trajectories and focus on how the past and the future are related in the present in certain moments. With material culture I refer especially to the built environment, including the element of landscape. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Ahvenselkä village…