Dressed in a Present from the Past: The Transfers and Transformations of a Swedish Bridal Crown in the United States

Gradén, Lizette

doi:10.3384/cu.2000.1525.10238695

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“…She was careful not to dress "above" her rung as a newcomer to the community, as she explained in interviews with me in 1997 and again in 2001 (Gradén 2003(Gradén , 2009). As I discussed above, for several years Anne chose to dress in a black skirt, white blouse, white apron, and a black silk scarf.…”

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FashioNordic: Folk Costume as Performance of Genealogy and Place

Gradén¹

2014

Journal of Folklore Research

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This article elaborates on the embodiment of heritage via dressing practices in several rural and urban Nordic communities in the United States. Getting dressed is a shared human practice that we engage in and repeat most days, and for special occasions, traditional dress, or folk costume, comes into particular focus. I approach dressing in folk costume as a "situated embodied practice," a mode of performance that exposes the way value judgments of the body are informed by societal notions of dress, with body and dress understood as socially constructed entities that shape each other. Based on attention to an embodied heritage that women create, make, view, discuss, and wear, I suggest that folk costumes from Sweden and its neighboring countries are increasingly individualized in the United States; that traditional dress is in fashion; and that garments, patterns, materials, and designs are used to illustrate complex family trees, places of belonging, and key experiences in life. and she would tell me how it took several months to make it, and it's, as you can see (touching the woolen embroidery), that would take quite a while, and then when it was all finished, they presented it to her, and she wore it at the next festivity. Well she was much shorter; I'm five [feet] ten [inches] and she was five [feet] two [inches].

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Section: Dress and Changes Of Identitymentioning

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FashioNordic: Folk Costume as Performance of Genealogy and Place

Gradén¹

2014

Journal of Folklore Research

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Museums and Heritage Collections in the Cultural Economy: The Challenge of Addressing Wider Audiences and Local Communities

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O'Dell

2016

Museum International

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Although more museums are opening now than at any time in the past, too little attention has been paid to the concrete ways in which cultural processes of commoditisation affect heritage production. How can collections speak to wider audiences as well as to local communities in ways that are economically sustainable? This is not a question that invites simple solutions. Turning to ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this article focuses on The Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle and Skokloster Castle near Stockholm to explore how these institutions negotiate public participation, engage new audiences, and adapt their operations to meet the demands of the cultural economy they operate in. Drawing on critical cultural theory, the article highlights how different cultural and economic contexts affect museums’ potential to develop, expand, and meet their objectives. The study explains how two particular museums struggle to open their collections to broader publics, which can be understood as part of a wider process of democratisation.

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Dressed in a Present from the Past: The Transfers and Transformations of a Swedish Bridal Crown in the United States

Cited by 2 publications

References 6 publications

FashioNordic: Folk Costume as Performance of Genealogy and Place

FashioNordic: Folk Costume as Performance of Genealogy and Place

Museums and Heritage Collections in the Cultural Economy: The Challenge of Addressing Wider Audiences and Local Communities

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