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Renbete på vintermarker. Natur och kultur i Sápmi
(2018-05-29)
This essay explores reindeer needs of variation in winter grazing lands, with focus on mountain Sámi villages with year-round pasture in Jokkmokk municipality, Norrbotten county, Sweden. It illuminates the relation between ...
Föreställningar om effektivitet och tradition inom nytimring
(2014-09-29)
Sweden currently has a handcrafted log house production that claims to produce houses as in the eighteenth century, even though the main tool in use is the chain saw. The use of the axe is only marginal, but at the same ...
Hassel i gotländska ängen. Samband mellan historiskt hasselbruk och biologisk mångfald
(2017-06-13)
This essay explores the traditional usage of hazel in wooded meadows in the island of Gotland, and the relations between this usage and the biodiversity of these lands. Research on relations between historical land-use and ...
Svedjebruksmetoden Huuhta - skogsfinnarnas försvinnande hantverkstradition
(2019-05-22)
The following essay is an investigation of Huuhta, the swidden cultivation craft process, a
disappearing tradition and an intangible cultural heritage. Huutha came to the north-western
part of Värmland, Sweden in the ...
Mangårdsbyggnadens träd - berättelser om träd i människans närhet
(2015-09-21)
The purpose of this study is to examine people’s conceptions regarding trees from the mid 19th century up until today. The study primarily focuses on trees placed in front of manor houses. These trees, a part of the ...
Trägärdesgårdar i Skaraborg. Den levande trägärdesgården sedd genom historiska fotografier
(2019-04-01)
The historical wood fence has served to separate growing crops from grazing animals as well as to mark the boundaries between villages and farms. The fences were continuously subject to repairs, which in course of time ...
Värden i hembygden. En etnokartering i Kyrkefalla socken
(2015-10-05)
This essay describes the process of an ethnocartograpy of the countryside at the villages Graven, Backen and Kårtorp in Kyrkefalla parish, Tibro kommun, Sweden. Ethnocartography is a method that is transmitting information ...