Folk och minnen i Glaskogen - En analys av ?verlevnadsfaktorer hos s?gner, folklore och folkminnen
This work is meant to show how memory can work within a smaller society when it comes to
folklore and local history. What is remembered, how it is remembered and why it is
remembered. Sprung from the older collections of folklore within the selected area - which is
Glaskogen in western V?rmland - the purpose is to look at different types of memorizing and
how it can work. The purpose is also to analyze some of the folklore from Glaskogen via
narrative analyzing methods of Palmenfelt, Labov and Young, and also to understand
Glaskogen from a cultural heritage perspective, looking at the valuation process and attitude
towards the immaterial heritage. An overall aim was to recognize important factors that affect
the cultural heritage?s being and survival. Some of the factors found important in this work
shows that following things are needed for the immaterial cultural heritage?s survival: it has to
be as valued as much local history is, it has to be told and listened to in a certain way, and
needs not only to be saved, but kept alive.