Controlling a future by admiring a past: An ecomuseumin Sweden

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• 1. There is no exact definition of ‘ecomuseum’, on the contrary, defining it is one of the controversial issues for many working with museums. I focus on this below, but to avoid unnecessary confusion, I shall mention a few defining points: ‘ecomuseum’ denotes a museum which actively attempts to include the social and the geographical/ecological environment in the exhibits, objects should not be detached from their ‘natural context’. A key term of this perspective is ‘wholeness’.
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• This was originally a paper given at the Second EASA (European Association of Social Anthropology) Conference in Prague, August 1992. I wish to thank several persons for reading and commenting on the earlier version: Claes Hallgren, Johan Norman, Don Handelman, Minou Fuglesang, Elisabeth Lind and Ulla Wagner. The study on which this article is based is a work in progress, fieldwork having been conducted during recurring periods since 1991, mainly in a small town I call Gruvbo and its surrounding villages. The general project concerns the situation of women and notions about development and culture (financed by ERU [Expert Group for Research on Regional Development] and BFR [Swedish Foundation for Building Research]). Within this overarching study I address several more limited issues—ideas about ‘social planning’ and the meanings of house and home; notions about history; ideas about health, the body and uses of obscenity as well as the problematics of doing anthropology ‘at home’.
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