| dc.description.abstract | ABSTRACT
Ph.D. dissertation at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014
Title: I skuggan av en borg. Vardag och fest på Krapperups gods 1881–1995
English title: In the shadow of a castle. Everyday life and parties at the Krapperup Estate in
1881–1995
Author: Lillemor Nyström
Language: Swedish, with an English summary
Department: Department of Cultural Sciences, Box 200, SE-405 30 Göteborg
In the shadow of a castle. Everyday life and parties at the Krapperup Estate in 1881–1995
The purpose of this study is to problematize and analyze the everyday work as well as the
celebrations which was held for the employees of the goods and the gentry’s own celebrations.
The transformation from an entailed estate, with many employees and manual agricultural gear,
to a modern agriculture with few employees as depicted over a long period of time. The Estate
is also a cultural centre and distributes research grants. The dissertation is based on archival
material and interviews with 33 informants, 17 men and 16 women born between 1904 and
1978. A documentary film recorded on Krapperup in the early 1940s is also used.
Krapperups estate, located in the north-west Scania, originating in the 1400 century. The
estate was founded in 1755 and the Foundation was formed in 1967. Around 60 underlying
tenant farms belonging to the estate.
The theoretical part is based on Bruno Latour’s thoughts about the world as indivisible,
where the whole is the sum of the parts. This means that materiality, non-human actants, are
equivalent to human actants. This approach makes the scenes can be created by events that
played out on the castle and on the farm. Even Irving Goffman’s approach has contributed to
the creation of the scenes. To analyze the gentry flavor has Pierre Bourdieu and his concept
of habitus has been used. The thesis shows how hierarchies, power and resistance looked
like and also shows that a change over time occurred regarding the coexistence of family
Gyllenstierna and staff.
Both men and women worked as farm labourers but the women were referred to the simple
and manual gear, never mechanized tool. They was milking the cows as long as the estate don’t
invested in milking machines but when the do they instead had to washing the milk vessels
and feeding the animals. Not until 1970s the woman was aloud to drive a power mower.
Keywords: Estate, Krapperup, entailed estate, foundation, downstairs/upstairs, parties,
Gyllenstierna, gentlefolk, farm labourer, in-kind wage, class, gender, power, resistance,
actor-network-theory, ANT, black box, translation, network.
312 pp. Language: Swedish, with an English summary
Dept. of Cultural Sciences / University of Gothenburg / P.O. Box 100 / SE-405 20 Göteborg
© Lillemor Nyström / ISBN 978-91-628-9066-7 | sv |
