Some objects stand out as personal and important to us. A packed suitcase, an inherited vase, the remains from a humanitarian aid package - things can induce affects. In this book the authors focus on material culture and on practice - on what affect does. Some of them place the issue of sensitivity in a wider from of professional interest in innovation and culture-tourism. The volume is a contribution to the upcoming field of affect research that has so far has been mainly explored psychology and cultural studies. In their texts the ethnologists and anthropologists involved show how established ways of analysing culture benefit from achievements in this field. They use fieldwork to examine how people project affects onto material objects and explore how objects trigger affects. The editors hope that this book will be read across disciplines, not only to promote the value of ethnographic work, but also to encourage theoretically informed creative empirical approaches to affect and material culture.

About the Author
Jonas Frykman is professor emeritus of European ethnology at the Department of Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He co-edited this volume as professor II at Agderforskning, Kristiansand, Norway. His main research interests are culture and class, socialisation, body, memorials and phenomenological analysis of culture.

Maja Povrzanovic Frykman is professor of ethnology and teaches at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmoe University, Sweden. She is also acting as part-time senior researcher at Agderforskning, Kristiansand, Norway. Her main research interests are war-related experiences, diaspora and transnational practices, highly skilled migrants, place, ethnicity and material culture.


Book Information
ISBN 9789187675669
Author Jonas Frykman
Format Hardback
Page Count 285
Imprint Nordic Academic Press
Publisher Nordic Academic Press