Folk och minnen i Glaskogen - En analys av överlevnadsfaktorer hos sägner, folklore och folkminnen

Abstract

This work is meant to show how memory can work within a smaller society when it comes to folklore and local history. What is remembered, how it is remembered and why it is remembered. Sprung from the older collections of folklore within the selected area - which is Glaskogen in western Värmland - the purpose is to look at different types of memorizing and how it can work. The purpose is also to analyze some of the folklore from Glaskogen via narrative analyzing methods of Palmenfelt, Labov and Young, and also to understand Glaskogen from a cultural heritage perspective, looking at the valuation process and attitude towards the immaterial heritage. An overall aim was to recognize important factors that affect the cultural heritage’s being and survival. Some of the factors found important in this work shows that following things are needed for the immaterial cultural heritage’s survival: it has to be as valued as much local history is, it has to be told and listened to in a certain way, and needs not only to be saved, but kept alive.