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Title: Sauna as Symbol

Sauna as Symbol

Society and Culture in Finland

by Lisa-Marlene Edelsward (Author)
©2001 Others IX, 267 Pages
Science, Society & Culture
Series: American University Studies , Volume 53

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
IX, 267
Year
2001
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820413952
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820423876
Language
English
Keywords
bath nature polity
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 1991, 1993, 2001. IX, 267 pp.

Biographical notes

Lisa-Marlene Edelsward (Author)

The Author: Lisa-Marlene Edelsward is a Canadian of Finnish and Swedish ancestry. After completing her undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia in Anthropology and Linguistics, she continued with graduate studies in anthropology at McGill University. She has lived for three years in Finland and eight months in Africa (Cameroon). She is currently engaged in ethnographic field research in highland Sardinia, Italy.

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