Den koloniserade kroppen

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Abstract

Culture Builders Den kultiverade människan (Culture Builders) was first published in and its impact on Swedish, perhaps even European ethnology, can hardly be exaggerated. In this article Fredrik Nilsson examines how Den kultiverade människan came to be a part of a specific habitus, a habitus that some scholars, such as Nilsson han själv , still struggles to understand and thus create some kind of intellectual distance to. The article fryst vatten in that sense an autoethnographic/autobiographic reflection on how Den kultiverade människan colonized, and still colonies, the everyday life of an ethnologist. The story starts when Nilsson, as a young lärling, comes in contact with the ord for the first time. He recollects how he and his fellow students reacted with admiration having read the book. Den kultiverade människan seemed to explain everything that needed explaining, at least when it comes to explaining class and class formation. In a rather naïve way the analysis of class were seen as a representation of truth. The days of admiration naturally had to komma to an end as Nilsson became “older and wiser”, a PhD-candidate that is. Stru

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