For a history of ethnology in Sweden
From the sixteenth century, historians describe certain customs and practices of people who live in Sweden. But it was under the influence of current national and a romantic ethnography Swedish grows truly the nineteenth century. This ethnography looks first to oral traditions, and then gradually the lifestyles in general. The ethnology becomes an academic discipline in the early twentieth century, in close liaison with museums and the rapid development of their collections focus on traditional folk culture. Until the 1960’s, these collections will remain the basis for any research in ethnology. Then a reversal occurs and, abandoning the historical studies, ethnology Swedish moves its focus to the social world and its contemporary challenges. Since then, theories from research in sociology and social anthropology dominate discipline.
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