Caminoization at Sea: The Fjord Pilgrim route in Norway

Based on official church and public-sector documents and texts related to the Fjord Pilgrim Route, we discuss how a process of Caminoization is expressed in Norway, both in relation to how this new invention relates to the medieval pilgrimage culture of the country, and how it inspires developments in the so-called pilgrimage renaissance in modern, Protestant Norway. The new construction of the Fjord Route demonstrates not only the Camino’s influence on contemporary pilgrimage in Europe, but also its scope for innovation in a broad field that encompasses state, church, country, and tourist organization actors. Focusing on the role of history and heritage in the Fjord Pilgrim Route, we argue that Caminoization, traditionalization, and heritagization are key factors that affected the establishment of the new Fjord Route and Norwegian pilgrim culture.acceptedVersio

Pilegrimsveien som kulturarv

I Norge opplever vi det noen omtaler som en ââ¬Âpilegrimsrenessanseââ¬Â. Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i den statlige satsningen på pilegrimsleden til Trondheim og diskuterer hvordan moderne pilegrimskultur i Norge er blitt del av en omfattende kulturarvsproduksjon. Pilegrimsleden til Trondheim blir i stor grad formet etter mønster av Santiago de Compostela hvor det legges vekt på vei og vandring. Selve leden blir utpekt som kulturarv og den blir legitimert i en kulturarvsdiskurs. Artikkelen prøver å vise hvorfor det legges slik vekt på veien og vandringen i en norsk kontekst

Turning Fiction into Reality: the Making of Two Places within Literary Geography

The authors discuss the creation of literary places, based on people’s perceptions of a locality arising from their relations to particular writers and their texts. The analysis is grounded on two case studies: Ogulin in Croatia, which is the birthplace of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, a renowned writer of fairytales, and Sel in Norway, the place where Sigrid Undset’s heroine of the historical novel Kristin Lavransdaughter spent her youth. Both cases rely on materializing the writers’ fictional universes within specific localities. Although they emerge in different contexts, these literary places exhibit common determinants that provide additional insight in the placemaking process.Autorice raspravljaju o kreiranju književnih mjesta, zasnovanih na ljudskim predodžbama o lokalitetima koje proizlaze iz njihovih veza s piscima i književnim tekstovima. Dvije studije slučaja predstavljaju temelj za analizu: Ogulin u Hrvatskoj, rodno mjesto glasovite autorice bajki Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić, te Sel u Norveškoj, mjesto u kojem je mladost provela Kristina, Lavransova kći, junakinja istoimenog povijesnog romana spisateljice Sigrid Undset. U oba je primjera riječ o materijalizaciji fiktivnih svjetova tih književnica unutar konkretnih lokaliteta. Premda se konstruiraju u različitim kontekstima, ta književna mjesta pokazuju i zajedničke odrednice koje nam pružaju dodatan uvid u procese stvaranja mjesta

Kako fikciju pretvoriti u stvarnost: stvaranje dvaju mjesta u književnoj geografiji (Sažetak)

The authors discuss the creation of literary places, based on people’s perceptions of a locality arising from their relations to particular writers and their texts. The analysis is grounded on two case studies: Ogulin in Croatia, which is the birthplace of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, a renowned writer of fairytales, and Sel in Norway, the place where Sigrid Undset’s heroine of the historical novel Kristin Lavransdaughter spent her youth. Both cases rely on materializing the writers’ fictional universes within specific localities. Although they emerge in different contexts, these literary places exhibit common determinants that provide additional insight in the placemaking process.Autorice raspravljaju o kreiranju književnih mjesta, zasnovanih na ljudskim predodžbama o lokalitetima koje proizlaze iz njihovih veza s piscima i književnim tekstovima. Dvije studije slučaja predstavljaju temelj za analizu: Ogulin u Hrvatskoj, rodno mjesto glasovite autorice bajki Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić, te Sel u Norveškoj, mjesto u kojem je mladost provela Kristina, Lavransova kći, junakinja istoimenog povijesnog romana spisateljice Sigrid Undset. U oba je primjera riječ o materijalizaciji fiktivnih svjetova tih književnica unutar konkretnih lokaliteta. Premda se konstruiraju u različitim kontekstima, ta književna mjesta pokazuju i zajedničke odrednice koje nam pružaju dodatan uvid u procese stvaranja mjesta

Ideas about the past and tradition in the discourse about neo-Shamanism in a Norwegian context

This paper concerns the idea of neo-shamanism within modem popular religion. Within new religious movements, new religiosity or New Age, the interest in what has been perceived of as old religions is growing steadily. One of these old religions is shamanism, often called neo-shamanism in its modern shaping. This interest in shamanism has been met with considerable ciriticism from without, using arguments that says that new shamanism has nothing to do with “real” shamanism, it is being misunderstood, distorted, etc. This criticism has been met with the “tradition” as an argument, and the “new” shamanism is from “within” being understood in terms of unbroken traditions in certain places in the world. The value of tradition and traditional thoughts are being highlighted in these arguments

Monumenter til hverdags

This article concerns everyday narratives about monuments in local communities. The material used is collected through Norsk Etnologisk Gransking. The narratives demonstrate that a monument in most cases is connected to war memorials, especially those related to the 2nd World War. The narratives also show great local variation connected to the  monuments that are related to the national history, stories about the 2nd World War present local diversity, sometimes in opposition to the national one.  We also learn that a monument, although representing a memory from the past, must talk to the present in order to be remembered, and that a monument consists of the stone, the narratives and rituals connected to it

Ideas about the past and tradition in the discourse about neo-Shamanism in a Norwegian context

This paper concerns the idea of neo-shamanism within modem popular religion. Within new religious movements, new religiosity or New Age, the interest in what has been perceived of as old religions is growing steadily. One of these old religions is shamanism, often called neo-shamanism in its modern shaping. This interest in shamanism has been met with considerable ciriticism from without, using arguments that says that new shamanism has nothing to do with “real” shamanism, it is being misunderstood, distorted, etc. This criticism has been met with the “tradition” as an argument, and the “new” shamanism is from “within” being understood in terms of unbroken traditions in certain places in the world. The value of tradition and traditional thoughts are being highlighted in these arguments

Birgit Hertzberg Kaare 1948–2016

Birgit Hertzberg Kaare døde 21. februar etter en tids kreftsykdom. Hun ble 67 år gammel. Birgit var professor emeritus i medievitenskap. Hun var utdannet folklo-rist, og arbeidet flere år som førsteamanu-ensis og professor (fra 1995) ved Institutt for kulturstudier (IKS), senere Institutt for kulturhistorie og orientalske språk (IKOS). Her hadde hun blant mange oppgaver også ansvar for Norsk Folkeminnesamling. I 2005 flyttet hun til Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon. Hun jobbet ved IMK til hun gikk av med pensjon i 2013. Til sammen jobbet hun 35 år ved Universitetet i Oslo

Redaksjonelt

Oslo-redaksjonen har levert sitt foreløpig siste nummer av Tidsskrift for kulturforskning, og en ny redaksjon i Bergen har tatt over tafettpinnen. En stor takk til Oslo-miljøet og spesielt til Inger Johanne Lyngø og Anne Melgård, hhv. avtroppende redaktør og redaksjonssekretær

Redaksjonelt

Dette dobbeltnummeret er et festskrift tilegnet professor Bente Gullveig Alver på hennes 70-årsdag den 26. august 2011. Hennes virksomhet ved Universitet i Bergen har vært â og er fremdeles â markant i mange sammenhenger