Inimkond: Dr. KatrÃn Lund (Islandi Ãœlikool)
16.04.2013 kell 15.00 - 15.00
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Inimkonna seminarisarja järgmine esineja on külaline Islandi Ãœ±ô¾±°ì´Ç´Ç±ô¾±²õ³Ù,
antropoloog Dr KatrÃn Lund, kes räägib teemal "Just like Magic:
Activating Landscape of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rural Tourism, Iceland".
Seminar toimub erandkorras teisipäeval, 16. aprillil kl
18-20 ruumis N207.Vaata ka:
https://www.facebook.com/events/361662597271831/-------Abstract:Strandir is
a remote, rural, region in the north west of Iceland. Steady declining of
traditional economic backbone, sheep farming and coastal fisheries in
recent decades means that the inhabitants are increasingly looking towards
tourism as a new source of income. In this they have not necessarily used
conventional economic methods in order to shape the landscape as an
attraction and in the year 2000 a Museum of Sorcery and Witchcraft was
opened in the only urban centre in the region, a town of 400 inhabitants
called HólmavÃk. The opening of the museum re-invokes an old history
since the 17th Century when the region became notorious for witch hunting
and burning; history that tells about people fighting dreadful situation of
scarcity and hunger trying to activate the powers of nature to change their
circumstances. Many of those living today in Strandir did not think in
favor of the museum at the beginning and worried about activating this
horrific part of history in order to create and image for the region. This
attitude seems to have changed dramatically since the museum appears to
have performed magically, at least in terms of growing numbers of tourist
visiting the region. In this chapter my aim is to examine how the museum
brings together different temporal and spatial realities that creates a
place of ‘in-betweeness’, that is constantly in the making,
continuously becoming through the magic that the museum brings about in
order to activate the regional landscape as an attraction. About the
presenter:Anthropologist KatrÃn Anna Lund is associate professor at the
Department of Geography and Tourism at the University of Iceland.
Currently, she is visiting the Department of Social and Cultural
Anthropology at Tallinn University in the process of writing the
introduction to her new book on movement in Iceland. With a PhD in
Social Anthropology from Manchester University, UK, KatrÃn has worked as
visiting lecturer at Victoria University, New Zealand, as researcher at the
University of Aberdeen, UK, and as lecturer at Queens University Belfast,
Northern Ireland, before joining the University of Iceland in 2006. KatrÃn
has published widely on landscape, tourism, walking, the senses and
narrative in Spain, Scotland and Iceland.About the seminar series:Inimkond:
Current issues in anthropology and beyondThis seminar series features
speakers from anthropology and related fields, and fosters discussion of
their research with a transdisciplinary audience. It aims to contribute to
the culture of academic scholarship and debate at Tallinn University.
Speakers include both local researchers and guests from a variety of
disciplinary backgrounds and with various takes on anthropological theory
and methods. Presentations in the seminar series will be of interest to
staff and students in anthropology, cultural theory, sociology, and
history, among others.Lisainfo: franz@tlu.ee
antropoloog Dr KatrÃn Lund, kes räägib teemal "Just like Magic:
Activating Landscape of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rural Tourism, Iceland".
Seminar toimub erandkorras teisipäeval, 16. aprillil kl
18-20 ruumis N207.Vaata ka:
https://www.facebook.com/events/361662597271831/-------Abstract:Strandir is
a remote, rural, region in the north west of Iceland. Steady declining of
traditional economic backbone, sheep farming and coastal fisheries in
recent decades means that the inhabitants are increasingly looking towards
tourism as a new source of income. In this they have not necessarily used
conventional economic methods in order to shape the landscape as an
attraction and in the year 2000 a Museum of Sorcery and Witchcraft was
opened in the only urban centre in the region, a town of 400 inhabitants
called HólmavÃk. The opening of the museum re-invokes an old history
since the 17th Century when the region became notorious for witch hunting
and burning; history that tells about people fighting dreadful situation of
scarcity and hunger trying to activate the powers of nature to change their
circumstances. Many of those living today in Strandir did not think in
favor of the museum at the beginning and worried about activating this
horrific part of history in order to create and image for the region. This
attitude seems to have changed dramatically since the museum appears to
have performed magically, at least in terms of growing numbers of tourist
visiting the region. In this chapter my aim is to examine how the museum
brings together different temporal and spatial realities that creates a
place of ‘in-betweeness’, that is constantly in the making,
continuously becoming through the magic that the museum brings about in
order to activate the regional landscape as an attraction. About the
presenter:Anthropologist KatrÃn Anna Lund is associate professor at the
Department of Geography and Tourism at the University of Iceland.
Currently, she is visiting the Department of Social and Cultural
Anthropology at Tallinn University in the process of writing the
introduction to her new book on movement in Iceland. With a PhD in
Social Anthropology from Manchester University, UK, KatrÃn has worked as
visiting lecturer at Victoria University, New Zealand, as researcher at the
University of Aberdeen, UK, and as lecturer at Queens University Belfast,
Northern Ireland, before joining the University of Iceland in 2006. KatrÃn
has published widely on landscape, tourism, walking, the senses and
narrative in Spain, Scotland and Iceland.About the seminar series:Inimkond:
Current issues in anthropology and beyondThis seminar series features
speakers from anthropology and related fields, and fosters discussion of
their research with a transdisciplinary audience. It aims to contribute to
the culture of academic scholarship and debate at Tallinn University.
Speakers include both local researchers and guests from a variety of
disciplinary backgrounds and with various takes on anthropological theory
and methods. Presentations in the seminar series will be of interest to
staff and students in anthropology, cultural theory, sociology, and
history, among others.Lisainfo: franz@tlu.ee