%0 Journal Article
%T Death in a 19th-Century Peasant Society ¨C Analysed by Means of a Peasant¡¯s Diaries from a Rural Community on the Western Coast of Sweden
%A Anders Gustavsson
%J Folklore : Electronic Journal of Folklore
%D 2009
%I Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Folklore Institute
%X Diaries can provide a micro-perspective on people¡¯s way of life andthe world of conceptualization in a local society, and also on the changes that took place in the years that the diaries were written. This can be considered micro-history. While conducting fieldwork for the research project ¡°Cultural contacts in Bohusl n¡¯s coastal rural communities¡± in the 1970s, I came across some detailed handwritten diaries. These had been written by Jakob Jonsson (21 July 1795 ¨C 15 March 1879), owner of Pr stbacka farm in R ra parish on Orust Island, Bohusl n province, and the preserved material covers a period from 1866 to a few weeks prior to Jonsson¡¯s death in 1879. In this paper, I have chosen to present a special study and analysis of Jakob Jonsson¡¯s notes with reference to death and funerals in R ra parish, and also to investigate if and how the general world outside this district manifested itself in Jonsson¡¯s world of ideas.
%K death
%K diary
%K funeral
%K funerary tradition
%K Jakob Jonsson
%K peasant society
%U http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol43/gustavsson.pdf