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Freezers full of gold: Living well with landscape in rural Northern Sweden
The Nordic Museum .ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3397-9721
2023 (English)In: Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, ISSN 1102-7908, Vol. 32Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The modern chest freezer has significantly altered food storage practices in Sweden. Based on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Arjeplog (rural Northern Sweden/ Swedish Sápmi), this article investigates how the chest freezer plays a crucial role in more-than-human networks of food, sustainability, and living well in the local community. Among participants of this ethnographic study, most of the protein stored in freezers was hunted or foraged from the local landscape, and participants felt “rich and content” with freezers full of “natural” food. Building on theories of new-materiality and the more-than-human, I examine the relationships between moose, freezer, forest, and the body, arguing that the chest freezer is not a static object of symbolic meaning but a vibrant actor in these networks of “the good life”. This paper is an empirically grounded contribution to studies of freezing practices and landscape relations in Northern Sweden. 

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Moderna frysboxar har förändrat matförvaringen i Sverige. Baserad på ett tretton månader långt fältarbete i Arjeplog (Norrland/Sápmi), undersöker den här artikeln hur toppmatade frysboxar spelar en viktig roll i merän-mänskliga nätverk av mat, hållbarhet, och “det goda livet” i det lokala samhället. Det mesta av proteinet som lagrades i frysarna av deltagarna jagades eller plockades från det lokala landskapet, och deltagarna kände sig “rika och nöjda” med frysboxar fyllda av “naturlig” mat. Genom att utgå från teorier om nymaterialism och det mer-än-mänskliga, undersöker jag relationerna mellan älgen, frysboxen, skogen, och kroppen. Jag hävdar att frysboxen inte är ett statiskt föremål utan en levande aktör i dessa nätverk av det goda livet. Artikeln är ett empiriskt grundat bidrag till studier om frysning och landskapsrelationer i norra Sverige.

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2023. Vol. 32
Keywords [en]
freezers, Northern Sweden, materiality, landscape relations
Keywords [sv]
frysbox; Norrland; materialism; landskaprelationer
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Social Anthropology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-198895DOI: 10.54807/kp.v32.2173OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-198895DiVA, id: diva2:1808228
Available from: 2023-10-30 Created: 2023-10-30 Last updated: 2024-05-03Bibliographically approved

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