They Do Things Differently. Essays on Cultural History
Bruce Johnson & Harri Kiiskinen (eds.). cultural history – kulttuurihistoria 9. 242 pp., 2011.
ISBN 978-951-29-4656-3
This fully refereed publication presents eight articles on cultural history, approaching both the conceptual and theoretical base of the discipline as well as presenting the practice through essays on various subject. The book begins with Bruce Johnson's Introduction, not only to the contents of the book, but also to Finnish cultural history through the eyes of an outsider.
Table of Contents
Bruce Johnson: Introduction 1
I Essays on Cultural Historiography
Heli Rantala: On the origins of 'culture' 21
Marja Tuominen: Where the world ends? The places and challenges of northern cultural history 43
Asko Nivala: The Chemical Age: Presenting history with metaphors 81
Kari Kallioniemi & Kimi Kärki: Tracing the Hegemonic and the Marginal: A Cultural History of Cultural Studies 109
II Essays on Cultural History
Marjo Kaartinen: Premodern Breast Cancer and the Abject 137
Kirsi Tuohela: 'Dotage without a fever'. Towards a cultural history of melancholia 159
Ritva Hapuli & Maarit Leskelä-Kärki: The public and private worlds of writing 185
Mervi Autti: The photographs as source of microhistory – reaching out for the invisible 211