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The Culture of Air Guitar
Every anthropologist seeks out the local practices rooted deep in community folklore and heritage that make each place unique in its own way. The diverse ways people adapt to the world and understand...
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The Complications of Nature and Heritage: Archaeologies of World War II in...
In 1811 Carl von Linne (Linneaus) toured Lapland, the northernmost region of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and in his study Lachesis Lapponica, or A Tour in Lapland he warned his genteel...
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Finnish communication, or, What are you doing here?
My running routes in Indianapolis, Indiana are home to a vast range of joggers, ranging from walkers and shuffling penguins to world-class genetic anomalies. Regardless of speed or commitment,...
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The Idiosyncracies of Finnish Buildings
The Alvar Aalto-designed Finlandia Hall in Helsinki is one of the nation’s best-known examples of modernist architecture (Image courtesy lwsdm). Finland is justifiably heralded as the home to some of...
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The Distorted Mirror of America: Imagining the US on Finnish Television
Image courtesy Rupert Brun Popular culture is an uncanny mirror of society, but it is always a distorted mirror that reflects who we are in our most spectacular and hyperbolic dimensions: for...
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The Culture of Cold and Contentment
Few descriptions of Finland ignore the impression of the environment on Finnish culture (image from Oulanka National Park courtesy purplespace). In the wake of World War II Julian Steward led a wave of...
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Anxiety about Finnish Schools
Viikki Teacher Training School in Helsinki (image courtesy Malene Erkmann). Finnish schools are routinely heralded as the gold standard for the rest of the world, primarily by self-conscious Americans...
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The Idiosyncratic Finnish Travelogue
There are myriad thorough and interesting travel guides to nearly every corner of the globe including Finland, most of which dutifully inventory the standard culinary, historical, cultural, and...
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Is Finland in Finnish Popular Culture? Part I
The McDonald’s in Oulu hopes to entice consumers with the flavors of America (image by author). It initially seems somewhat oxymoronic to suggest that there might be a distinctive Finnish popular...
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Finland in Finnish Popular Culture, Part II: The Moomins and Global Popular...
Moomin World provides readers the chance to now walk through Moominvalley (image courtesy msaari). One of Finland’s most celebrated contributions to the world is the herd of bleached rhino’s known as...
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Evil and Everyday Life: Interpreting Nazi Heritage
This post is republished from my August 22, 2015 blog Archaeology and Material Culture The “We Were Friends” exhibit In June, 1941 the German military arrived in northern Finland as part of the...
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