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Peace with the Earth : tracing agricultural memory, refiguring practice / by Åsa Sonjasdotter ; edited by Ros Gray ; translation from Swedish to English by Katarina Trodden and Kathy Gow Sjöblom.
LIBRA S469.S32 G687 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sonjasdotter, Åsa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Swedish
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Environmental aspects--Sweden--Gotland.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture--Sweden--Gotland--History.
- History.
- Agriculture--Environmental aspects.
- Sweden--Gotland.
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Tracing agricultural memory, refiguring practice
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Archive Books, 2019.
- Summary:
- "The artistic enquiry presented in this book responds to the call, made by two Swedish suffragettes and peace activists Elisabeth Tamm (1880-1958) and Elin Wägner (1882-1949) in their pamphlet Fred med Jorden (Peace with the Earth, 1940). Grounded in research into agricultural practices on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, the quotations, documents and photographs of dead and living matter presented in this book testify to ways of living off the land. These assemblages sketch out the nurturing environments of three relict crops cultivated from prehistoric times until the present day"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Helena Selder, Baltic Art Center
- Acknowledgements
- Tracing agricultural memory, refiguring practice, an introduction
- Traces of emmer wheat in wooden ard furrows
- Traces of potatoes in iron plough furrows
- Traces of turnips in earthworm castings
- The earth was not created by human hands by Elin Wägner and Elisabeth Tamm Peace with the Earth, 1940.
- Notes:
- Includes the introduction to Elin Wägner and Elisabeth Tamm's Fred med jorden in translation.
- Editor's name and translators' names from page 176.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783948212179
- 3948212171
- OCLC:
- 1145211234
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