Description

• Title:
  Messages on Memorial Internet Websites Relating to Suicide in Norway and Sweden
• Creator:
  Gustavsson, Anders
• Contributor:
  Krawczyk-Wasilewska, Violetta;
  Meder, Theo;
  Ross, Andy;
  University of Oslo, Norway;
  Gustavsson, Anders (1940) studied European Ethnology at the University of Lund, Sweden, and defended the dissertation Churching of Women in 1972. He was assistant professor in Lund 1973-1986, professor in Uppsala, Sweden 1987-1997 and in Oslo, Norway 1997-2010. Since 2011, he is senior professor at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages in Oslo. His academic research fields concern: folk religion, cultural contacts, culture of borders, farmers culture, coastal culture, rituals around life cycle, symbols of gravestones, alcohol and temperance movements, and folk life painting. He is a member of the editorial board of Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore, and a senior member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture. He is also a member of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR), the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH), the Nordic Network of Thanathology, and NORDVECK, the Network of Scandinavian Researchers and Research on Revivals and Revival Culture. Web: http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos
• Description:
  The Author presents a study of memorial websites relating to persons who have committed suicide. These websites are set up at the same websites as those that commemorate other dead persons, for example www.tillminneav.se which means ‘to the memory of’. Speaking openly about suicide is both remarkable and unique when contrasted with the reticence of former days. Messages expressed in these exceptional situations have not previously been subjected to scientific analysis. The aim of the present study is to determine which elements are common to memorial websites for both suicides and other categories of deceased persons, and which are distinctive. In addition, a comparison will be made between conditions in Sweden and in Norway.;
  Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ;
  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Międzynarodowe
• Date:
  2021.06.09;
  2012
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf;
  image/jpeg
• Publisher:
  Lodz University Press
• Relation:
  Krawczyk-Wasilewska V., Meder T., Ross A. (eds.), Shaping virtual lives. Online identities, representations, and conducts, Lodz University Press, Lodz 2012;
• Subject:
  suicide acts;
  memorial Internet Websites;
  life after death;
  tradition;
  Norway;
  Sweden
• Identifier:
  Gustavsson A., Messages on Memorial Internet Websites Relating to Suicide in Norway and Sweden, [in:] Shaping virtual lives. Online identities, representations, and conducts, Krawczyk-Wasilewska V., Meder T., Ross A. (eds.), Lodz University Press, Lodz 2012, pp. 69-87, DOI: 10.18778/7525-671-0.05;
  978-83-7525-671-0;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/36127 ;
  10.18778/7525-671-0.05
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text