1. Sensitive Objects –
Affect and Material Culture
Jonas Frykman and Maja
Povrzanović Frykman
Hardback, 285 pp.
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Sensitive Objects –
Affect and Material Culture
a new book from nordic academic press
contributors
Anne Britt Flemmen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway / Jonas Frykman,
Lund University, Sweden / Nils Gilje, University of Bergen, Norway / Elisabet Sørfjord-
dal Hauge, Agderforskning, Norway / Kirsti Mathiesen Hjemdahl, Agderforskning,
Norway / Stef Jansen, University of Manchester, UK / Sarah Holst Kjær, Agderfor-
skning, Norway / Britt Kramvig, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway /
Orvar Löfgren, Lund University, Sweden / Sanja Potkonjak, University of Zagreb,
Croatia / Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Malmö University, Sweden / Nevena Škrbić
Alempijević, University of Zagreb, Croatia / Lesley Stern, University of California,
US / Kathleen Stewart, University of Texas, US
about the editors
Jonas Frykman is professor emeritus of European ethnology at the Department of
Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He co-edited this volume as professor
II at Agderforskning, Kristiansand, Norway. His main research interests are culture
and class, socialisation, body, memorials and phenomenological analysis of culture.
Maja Povrzanović Frykman is professor of ethnology and teaches at the Department
of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden. She is also acting as part-time
senior researcher at Agderforskning, Kristiansand, Norway. Her main research inter-
ests are war-related experiences, diaspora and transnational practices, highly skilled
migrants, place, ethnicity and material culture.
Some objects stand out as personal and important to us. A packed su-
itcase, an inherited vase, the remains from a humanitarian aid packet
– things can induce affects. In Sensitive Objects the authors focus on
material culture and on practice – on what affect does. Some of them
place the issue of sensitivity in a wider frame of professional interest in
innovation and culture-tourism.
The volume is a contribution to the upcoming field of affect research
that has so far has been mainly explored in psychology and cultural stu-
dies. In their texts ethnologists and anthropologists involved show how
established ways of analysing culture benefit from achievements in this
field. They use fieldwork to examine how people project affects onto
material objects and explore how objects trigger affects.
The editors hope that this book will be read across disciplines, not only
to promote the value of ethnographic work, but also to encourage theo-
retically informed creative empirical approaches to affect and material
culture.