Abstract

This chapter discusses two analytical representatives in the study of folklife. The way of regarding culture, with its unfortunate methodological and theoretical consequences, is largely responsible for the crisis in which folklife research as a science finds itself today. Folklife research is regarded as a science whose task is to discuss how the notions shared by an ethnic group find expression through a social process in cultural forms. The chapter highlights the area of distribution in Sweden for flat, ornamented flax-holders. This region was a strip a few Swedish miles in breadth. In more recent times, psychological explanations have here increasingly come to dominate.

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