Denna undersökning har studerat fäbodstugan och fäbodmiljön i ett tidsperspektiv. Från att ha varit en del av jordbrukssystemet till att bli ett område för rekreation. En enkätundersökning genomfördes för att fånga brukarnas åsikter i Västtjärnslindans fäbod. En jämförelse mellan värden ur ett myndighetsperspektiv och ett brukarperspektiv genomfördes därefter. Förändringar i fäbodmiljön undersöktes också i Västtjärnslindans fäbod. Undersökningen visar att värderingen skiljer sig inte så mycket mellan parterna, snarare att det handlar om benämningar och tolkningar av de kulturvärden som lyfts i Bastbergets fäbod jämfört med i Västtjärnslindans fäbod. Studien visar att de förändringar som identifierats i Västtjärnslindan inte utgör något hot mot bevarande av kulturmiljön. Snarare att nya värden appliceras på de gamla värdena som kvarstår, som lager på lager. Oavsett om fäbodmiljön är utpekad av kulturarvsmyndigheter eller ej innehar den höga kulturvärden som i ett brukande bevaras för framtida generationer. Ett bevarande i brukandet vill uppnås för att få ett användbart hållbart kulturarv. / This study looks into shacks in a time perspective from being a part of the agricultural system to a new purpose for recreation. This was made by studying cultural values and changes from a authority-perspecitve and from the peoples-perspective living and using the cultural area in these shacks. From the authority-perspecive the study looked into processes in valuing cultural values and management regulations in Bastbergets fäbod as an example. A survey was created to investigating the peoples-perspective in Västtjärnslindan fäbod. The study shows that the most important cultural values are quite similar independent of whom valuing the cultural environment (either authorities or people using it). Changes to more modern appearance in the study shows that they are not affecting character traits of the cultural shacks environment. The cultural values appears to be a layer on layer values in the cultural environment. To conclude it is importent to reach conservation in using the shacks environment to obtain a useful sustainable cultural heritage.

The purpose of this study is to explore the meaning of womanhood in relation to the Swedish fäbod culture at the turn of the 20th century. The study is based upon a questionnaire from 1928 and the material is collected from the archives at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm and the Institute for Language and Folklore in Uppsala. Drawing upon gender and ritual theories, the study intends to gain an understanding for what it meant to be a woman of the fäbod by examining how fäbod herdswomen were culturally shaped and initiated into women both in relation to their place in the fäbod community of herdswomen, but also in respect to the wider community and society of which they were a part of.  The main conclusion of the study is that the journey into the fäbod woods can be seen as a rite of passage where adolescent girls going to the fäbod for the first time were initiated into the fäbod community of herdswomen. Womanhood is a cultural phenomenon in which women are culturally shaped and initiated into women not only by the codes, conceptions and values of the society at large, but also by the stories, customs and traditions of their local communities. The fäbod herdswomen were born into the gender power structures of a patriarchal society that sought to shape them into promising wives, and they were also women of the fäbod, initiated into the fäbod communitas, a form of female counterculture with its very own musical language, customs and traditions, and with its very own definitions of womanhood.

In Sweden, the environmental quality goal 13 for A Varied Agricultural Landscape, that combines environment, food production and rurality and aims at keeping the agricultural landscape open, was considered as not achieved in 2016. One of the reasons for this non-achievementis the agricultural intensification and specialisation and in turn the decrease in number of pastures during the 20th century, threating thus habitats, diversity and values resulting from a continuous, traditional use of the land commonly called ‘biological heritage’. This study focuses on the traditional and sustainable animal husbandry using pastures, contributing to both the preservation of biological heritage and the production of high-quality food. It relies upon the assumption that the link between artisan food production and biological heritage is not well understood nor highlighted by the different actors taking part into the process of producing, selling, buying and consuming artisan food products in the rural areas of mid-northern Scandinavia, and therefore the study attempts to contribute with knowledge about how biological heritage is understood, described and communicated within this context. For such purposes the study takes a phenomenographic approach with biological heritage, pastures and artisan food products as the conceptions to be tested, and consists of semi-structured interviews of three agencies and surveys of artisan food producers and consumers. It adopts an environmental communication theoretical framework where a model is suggested for investigating actors’ learning process of biological heritage, from agencies to producers to consumers. The results reveal three phenomenographic categories showing that agencies and producers understand biological heritage in terms of (1) cared habitat and cared species, (2) historical and cultural know-how and (3) animals and their tasteful diet, and it is showed that the necessity of a continuous, traditional human use was less put forward than the cultural dimension of biological heritage. Also producers communicate about biological heritage to consumers through both their products and their actions. Furthermore the results show that consumers’ understandings of biological heritage are similar to the agencies’ and producers’ phenomenographic categories and that they could make a link between artisan food production and biological heritage, but only to some extent. Finally, in order to create an economic value for such products, a sense of place for pastures is argued to be a basis for people’s willingness to take care of and safeguard pastures. This study can be the starting point for further research, especially for investigating how producers actually interact with consumers about biological heritage when selling their products.

Vallmusik har länge varit en del av folkmusiken som personligen fascinerat mig mycket och känts svår att greppa. Jag tycker att den låter både enkel och komplex på samma gång och att det är något speciellt med både uttrycket i musiken och i tonaliteten som särskiljer sig från annan musik. Det påminner mig också om det som slog an i mig när jag först föll för folkmusik; något enkelt och lite vemodigt men samtidigt starkt och tidlöst. Svårt att sätta fingret på, men kanske själva kärnan av det jag dras till generellt i folkmusiken. I den här stilanalysen har jag valt att fokusera på en del av vallmusiken som är vokal - nämligen kulning.  Det finns så mycket att hämta för mig i vallmusiken i allmänhet och kulningen i synnerhet. Jag vill utforska hur jag kan överföra det jag hittar till mitt eget skapande och min röst, utifrån mina förutsättningar och preferenser, och samtidigt ha förankring i traditionen.