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Browsing by Subject "Scandinavian"

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    The evolution of Scandinavian folk art education within the contemporary context.
    (2010-12) Litsheim, Mary Etta
    Folk education in Scandinavia evolved through the influences of political, social, and cultural change in 18th and 19th century Denmark. Danish high society supported the academic rigor of the German education system and expressed little interest in sustaining the rural folk and its culture. N.F.S. Grundtvig, scholar, minister, and libertarian, who observed this discrepancy between the city elite and the rural class, developed the folkehøgskole (folk school) construct that would provide an equitable education and retain the essence of traditional Danish culture. This movement, a melding of education and ethnographic philosophies, inspired the development of folk schools throughout Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and America. Notable modernist and postmodernist educators were inspired by this progressive and student-centered methodology over that of the strictly pedagogic. Museum educators now refer to adult learning technology in developing their events and activities. The Vesterheim Museum, the case in point for this study, offers traditional folk art education programs which include building skills and knowledge in traditional Norwegian arts and crafts. On an annual basis, the Vesterheim sponsors an exhibition and recognition event to recognize the efforts of these artisans. The artistic expression that emanates from the artifacts--weaving, knifemaking, woodworking, and rosemaling--is influenced by Norway's nationalistic period from the mid 17th to the early 19th century. The purpose of this study is to facilitate understanding, through education and recognition efforts, ways in which traditional folk art expression might evolve.
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    Harrowing The Field: Towards A Postagrarian Analysis Of The Gospels Of Matthew And Mark
    (2022-06) Coffman, Kristofer
    Despite the growth in archaeology in the Galilee and sustained interest in the economic background of the Jesus movement, agriculture and agrarian life remain under theorized in the study of the Gospels. This study seeks to situate itself in the gaps shown in attention to agriculture in research on Jesus and the Gospels and to interrogate their constructions of ethnography, economy and ethnicity through the tools of postcolonial analysis, especially ambivalence and mimicry. As an inquiry into ethnography, I reread interpretations of the Parable of the Sower and the Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds in order to show the limits of the data that sources, both ancient and modern provide. On the economic level, I delve into the Parable of the Tenants and the logion of the Easy Yoke to argue that scholars have obscured ancient slaves and invested peasants with their own modern values. Finally, as an inquiry into ethnicity, I reread the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard and Jesus’s encounter with the Syrophoenician Woman to uncover the ways in which reading from the point of view of the native informants troubles later scholarly binaries. Through these six case studies, I both demonstrate the need for and experiment with Postagrarian Analysis as a flexible methodology that incorporates knowledge of agriculture with an analysis of the social relations of ancient life. Through postagrarian analysis, I reread these texts in order to understand how Matthew and Mark use agrarian imagery to paint their portraits of Jesus as the Christ.
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    Towards a multiculturalism for the 21st century : German and Scandinavian literary perspectives, 1990-2005.
    (2008-08) Karlsson, Elisabeth Helena
    This dissertation is a reading of literary texts from 1990-2005 by four authors of immigrant extraction in Germany and Scandinavia. I ask how these authors engage in both a reality of multiculturalism and a discourse of multiculturalism. The project is organized around the tension in these texts between negative experiences of ethnic and global disadvantage and positive representations of minority identity and cultural mixture. I argue that the four writers-Feridun Zaimoglu (Germany), Bertrand Besigye (Norway), Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Sweden) and Emine Sevgi Özdamar (Germany)-combine in their texts a serious critique of the dominant culture with a playful, critical, often provocative outlook on identity. In light of recent theoretical critiques of the terms "multiculturalism" and "minority", I defend the value of minority perspectives and sensibilities to contemporary German and Scandinavian society, identity and culture. I start my discussion with an analysis of the Kanak identities in two of the Turkish-German Feridun Zaimoglu's texts. I discuss how Zaimoglu's appropriation of the derogatory word for foreigner in Germany serves a critique of a dominant German culture reluctant to embrace its new ethnic minorities. Then I analyze the Ugandan-Norwegian Bertrand Besigye's prose poetry. I show how cultural and racial difference can be used playfully to insert difference into a national identity too narrowly and homogenously defined. In Jonas Hassen Khemiri's texts, I discuss how Khemiri criticizes the ethnic definitions assigned to immigrants by the Swedish majority culture and how he pushes for a more open, cosmopolitan national identity. Engaging with the Turkish-German Emine Sevgi Özdamar's texts, lastly, I examine how the author's conciliatory and humorous attitude toward the reality of multiculturalism potentially fosters cross-cultural identification and more open and generous identities. In the end, I show that a multiculturalism worth defending is one that acknowledges persisting ethnic and racial inequalities and prejudices while it at the same time expands the horizons of our cultural, national and individual identities.