This volume contains 17 essays with fresh new approaches to cultural history from 17 authors that belong to different academic disciplines, including archaeology, art history, classical languages, ethnology, fashion studies, history, history of ideas, history of religion, literature studies, and media studies. Making Cultural History has sprung out of the Research School for Studies in Cultural History at Stockholm University, an interdisciplinary research program focusing on interplays between past and present. The authors of this volume display a kaleidoscope of innovative approaches to traditional academic subjects such as celebrity, literary genre, prehistoric remains, television, and historic monuments. The perspectives focus on obscure corners and gaps between the illuminated centers of traditional academic knowledge and create an understanding that all narratives, representations, and claims of culture and history are in some sense political. Challenging, disturbing, inspirational, these essays all make cultural history.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Making cultural history
  • An introduction
• 1. Heroes, hierarchies, and the man who wasn’t there
  • Visible and invisible masculinities in the Eketorp research project
• 2. A majestic copycat in motion
• 3. Fictionalized cityscapes
  • Lisbeth Salander and the heritage of Stockholm
• 4. The past is a present
  • On the rhetoric of monuments and United States universalism
• 5. Tracing the Silence of the Tragic
• 6. The burning of Rǫgnvaldr réttilbeini
• 7. Textus and rhizome
  • An experiment with two metaphors
• 8. Unnam’d forms
  • Playing the William Blake archive
• 9. Google and the mediation of cultural memory
• 10. Paper fever
  • A media history of early modern Spain
• 11. The materiality of war booty books
  • The case of Strängnäs cathedral library
• 12. A plea for anachronism
• 13. ‘And we would like to thank’
  • The role of funding in archaeology
• 14. Oral history and the interpretation of the recent past
  • Remembering the Swedish miners’ strike of 1969–70
• 15. Dumps and ditches
  • Prisms of archaeological practice at Kalaureia in Greece
• 16. Micromedia
• 17. A matter of quality
  • Americanism and public service in early Swedish television
• About the authors