The Moral Content of Tradition: Homecraft, Ethnology, and Swedish Life in the Twentieth Century

In Sweden, a shift had occurred in the 1970s to a new study of folklife, or ethnology, that emphasized not only the trivial aspects of an agrarian society, but rather more theoretical and far more closely linked to the social sciences than its predecessor. Klein analyzes a few aspects of the home craft movement's role in Swedish cultural, social and political life during the 20th century, specifically the relationship between the ethnology and the homecraft movement during the last few decades of the 20th century, and the concept of tradition, and its importance for understanding of that relationship.