Volume 36 • Issue 1 • 2007 • 2006

This volume of Ethnologia Europaea starts out with two contrasting studies of monuments. How does the seemingly stability of stone and bronze hide a constantly changing cultural use? Anne Eriksen looks at the history of ruins in Norway. The murmur of ruins turns out to be a speech of modernity, a way of emotionalizing place and history. Viktoriya Hryaban discusses the fate of socialist monuments in Ukraine and shows how the attempts to create alternative post-socialist memorials reproduce a traditional Soviet cultural grammar. Lace is a dominating decorative element in many Turkish Dutch homes. It has become a sign of “Turkishness” but as Hilje van der Horst points out, people’s relations to this mundane domestic element mirror some important conflicts and ideas about modernity and ethnicity. From the cultural media of monuments and lace, the discussion moves on to two more classic mass media and their role in identity politics. Stijn Reijnders explores a popular Dutch game show that has managed to survive for decades, becoming something of a national institution for some, an example of an outmoded genre for others. How does the involvement mirror ideas of an imagined national community? Finally, Silke Meyer looks at an 18th century national stereotype of “The German quack” in English popular debate and mass media. How did this caricature of Germanness become an alter ego of the English?


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The Murmur of Ruins

Anne Eriksen

2007-01-01 Volume 36 • Issue 1 • 2007 • 2006 • 5-21

CASTING POST-SOCIALIST MEMORY

Viktoriya Hryaban

2007-01-01 Volume 36 • Issue 1 • 2007 • 2006 • 22-33

TURKISH LACE

Hilje van der Horst

2007-01-01 Volume 36 • Issue 1 • 2007 • 2006 • 35-45

HOLLAND ON THE SLIDE

Stijn Reijnders

2007-01-01 Volume 36 • Issue 1 • 2007 • 2006 • 46-57

THE GERMANS AS THE ALTER EGO OF THE ENGLISH?

Silke Meyer

2007-01-01 Volume 36 • Issue 1 • 2007 • 2006 • 58-69

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