Memories of My Town

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Memories of My Town. The Identities of Town Dwellers and Their Places in Three Finnish Towns
Edited by Anna-Maria Åström, Pirjo Korkiakangas & Pia Olsson
Finnish Literature Society
Studia Fennica. Ethnologica 8
Tampere 2004, 249 pp.
Memories of My Town is an exploration into how town dwellers experience their environment in a complicated way. As people in urban milieus relate themselves to the environment, this takes place on many levels, where especially the time level becomes problematic. The urban buildings and settings can be looked upon as a kind of collective history, as carriers or witnesses of times past. But it is only the town dwellers that experience urban time itself, the time they live in, but through their memories also times past. In this past some elements take symbolically dense expressions. Through reliving and narrating their experiences the symbolically important factors in this urban relationship will be outlined for investigations concerning three towns, Helsinki, Vyborg and Jyväskylä.
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ISBN 951-746-433-9
ISSN 1235-1954
Publisher Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Series Studia Fennica. Ethnologica
Published (year) 2004
Cover Softcover
Type of Binding Softcover binding
Languages english
Disciplines Ethnology, City Planning, Cultural History, History of Society
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