TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lisa-Marlene Edelsward
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Sauna as Symbol
T2  - Society and Culture in Finland
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1082084
N2  - Every culture has a secret ingredient, and for Finnish culture and society it is the sauna. The sauna is an actual bath and bathhouse which in practical life brings people together in ways otherwise impossible. And the sauna as symbol brings together and integrates the many contradictory ideals and realities of Finnish society and culture. Through the sauna, nature and culture, the individual and society, the person and the polity, may be woven into an integral whole.
KW  - bath, nature, polity
LA  - English
ER  -