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"The chapters of Fibula, Fabula, Fact – The Viking Age in Finland are intended to provide essential foundations for approaching the important topic of the Viking Age in Finland. These chapters are oriented to provide introductions to the sources, methods and perspectives of diverse disciplines in a way that is accessible to specialists from other fields, specialists from outside Finland, and also to non-specialist readers and students who may be more generally interested in the topic. Rather than detailed case studies, the contributors have sought to negotiate definitions of the Viking Age as a historical period in the cultural areas associated with modern-day Finland, and in areas associated with Finns, Karelians and other North Finnic linguistic-cultural groups more generally. Within the incredible diversity of data and disciplines represented here, the Viking Age tends to be distinguished by differentiating it from earlier and later periods, while the geographical space is quite fluidly defined for this era, which was long before the construction of modern nations with their fenced and guarded borders. Most significantly, the contributions lay emphasis on contextualizing the Viking Age within the complexities of defining cultural identities in the past through traces of cultural, linguistic or genetic features.The volume opens with a general introduction to the topic that is intended to provide a frame of reference for discussion, paralleled by a closing afterward. The following chapters are organized according to three thematic sections which reflect the three aspects of any discussion of the Viking Age in Finland: Time, Space, and People – because any discussion of the ‘Viking Age’ in ‘Finland’ is necessarily concerned with individuals, societies and cultures."
Historical & comparative linguistics --- Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 --- Archaeology --- Religion & beliefs --- Society & culture: general --- Finland --- History --- Antiquities --- Civilization --- Fen-lan --- Fen-lan kung ho kuo --- Finlande --- Finlândia --- Finlandii︠a︡ --- Finli︠a︡ndii︠a︡ --- Finnland --- Finnlando --- Finrando --- Republic of Finland --- Republiken Finland --- Souomi --- Suomen tasavalta --- Suomi --- פינלנד --- フィンランド --- Finland (Grand duchy) --- Finland (Grand Duchy)
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"In this study, I examine the life narrative of a female factory labourer, Elsa Koskinen (née Kiikkala, born in 1927). I analyze her account of her experiences related to work, class and gender because I seek to gain a better understanding of how changes in these aspects of life influenced the ways in which she saw her own worth at the time of the interviews and how she constructed her subjectivity. Elsa's life touches upon many of the core aspects of 20th-century social change: changes in women's roles, the entrance of middle- class women into working life, women's increasing participation in the public sphere, feminist movements, upward social mobility, the expansion of the middle class, the growth of welfare and the appearance of new technologies. What kind of trajectory did Elsa take in her life? What are the key narratives of her life? How does her narrative negotiate the shifting cultural ideals of the 20th century?A life story, a retrospective evaluation of a life lived, is one means of constructing continuity and dealing with the changes that have affected one's life, identity and subjectivity. In narrating one's life, the narrator produces many different versions of her/him self in relation to other people and to the world. These dialogic selves and their relations to others may manifest internal contradictions. Contradictions may also occur in relation to other narratives and normative discourses. Both of these levels, subjective meaning making and the negotiation of social ideals and collective norms, are embedded in life narratives.My interest in this study is in the ways in which gender and class intersect with paid labour in the life of an ordinary female factory worker. I approach gender, class and work from both an experiential and a relational perspective, considering the power of social relationships and subject formations that shape individual life at the micro-level. In her narratives Elsa discusses ambivalence related to gendered ideals, social class, and especially the phenomenon of social climbing as well as technological advance.I approach Elsa's life and narratives ethnographically. The research material was acquired in a long-standing interview process and the analysis is based on reflexivity of the dialogic knowledge production and contextualization of Elsa's experiences. In other words I analyze Elsa's narratives in their situational but also socio-cultural and historical contexts. Specific episodes in one’s life and other significant events constitute smaller narrative entities, which I call micro-narratives. The analysis of micro-narratives, key dialogues and cultural ideals embedded in the interview dialogues offers perspectives on experiences of social change and the narrator’s sense of self"
Women employees --- Women metal-workers --- Women --- Sex role --- Social conditions --- History --- Koskinen, Elsa Sanelma, --- Finland --- Social life and customs --- Gender role --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Female employees --- Women workers --- Working women --- Workingwomen --- Fennoscandia --- Finnland --- Suomi --- Fen-lan --- Finli︠a︡ndii︠a︡ --- Souomi --- Finlândia --- Finlande --- Finlandii︠a︡ --- Fen-lan kung ho kuo --- Republic of Finland --- Finnlando --- Suomen Tasavalta --- Republiken Finland --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Metal-workers --- Employees --- Suomen tasavalta --- フィンランド --- Finrando --- פינלנד --- Finland (Grand Duchy) --- Finland (Grand duchy) --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles
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The creation of Finland's national conscription army in the wake of its independence from Russia in 1917 aroused intense but conflicting emotions. This book examines the struggles of a new army to find popular acceptance and support, and explores the ways that images of manhood were used in the controversies. Ahlbäck places the situation of interwar Finland within a broad European context to reveal the conflicts surrounding compulsory military service and the impact of the Great War on masculinities and constructions of gender.
Draft --- Sociology, Military --- Soldiers --- Masculinity --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Men --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- Military sociology --- Armies --- Peace --- War --- War and society --- Compulsory military service --- Conscription, Military --- Military conscription --- Military draft --- Military service, Compulsory --- Military training, Universal --- Selective service --- Service, Compulsory military --- Universal military training --- National service --- Recruiting and enlistment --- Conscientious objectors --- History --- Finland --- Fen-lan --- Fen-lan kung ho kuo --- Finlande --- Finlândia --- Finlandii︠a︡ --- Finli︠a︡ndii︠a︡ --- Finnland --- Finnlando --- Finrando --- Republic of Finland --- Republiken Finland --- Souomi --- Suomen tasavalta --- Suomi --- פינלנד --- フィンランド --- Finland (Grand duchy) --- Military life. --- Finland (Grand Duchy)
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