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Film, Video Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden

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Title

  • Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden

Summary

  • Architect and folklorist Mats Widbom presented his research on the traditional building culture of Dalecarlia in Northern Sweden. In particular, he explored how the parstuga (double house) has been used and rebuilt over time in the parish of Lima. His research demonstrates that traditional culture, as expressed in architecture, is not something permanent; it need not have a particular appearance and derivation from the past. Rather, he contends, tradition is something that is constantly being reinterpreted and re-created in the present, in dynamic oscillation between continuity and change.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-03-24.

Headings

  • -  Architecture, Landscape
  • -  Cities, Towns
  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Education

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Mats Widbom.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-03-24.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Publishers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688211

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-24, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688211/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2009) Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-24. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688211/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Living and Building Between Tradition and Change: Vernacular Architecture in Northern Sweden. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-24, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688211/>.