Orvar Löfgren (born 1943) is a
Swedish
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professor emeritus
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of
ethnology at
Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion [Sweden
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. Löfgren received his
Ph.D.
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in European ethnology in 1978 for his dissertation, "Maritime hunters in industrial society: the transformation of a Swedish fishing community 1800-1970." He was Professor of European Ethnology at
Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion [University of California, Santa Cruz
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, in 1983, 1986 and 1997.
Among his contributions to ethnological research, Löfgren has been innovative in his broad views of source material. He has studied the everyday conditions of
consumption,
leisure
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, travel, tourism,
adventure tourism
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, and cross-border transnational activities such as in the
Öresund Region in connection with the
Öresund Bridge. He has also published on issues relating to the development of
national identity in Sweden. He is the author of ten books and dozens of articles in academic journals.
Löfgren was awarded an
honorary doctorate
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at the
University of Copenhagen
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in 2008, and received the Gösta Berg medal the same year. He is a member of the
Royal Academy of Letters and, since 1995, has been a foreign member of the
Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
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.
Bibliography
*''Exploring Everyday Life: Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis'' (2015)
*''Coping With Excess: How Organizations, Communities and Individuals Manage Overflows'' (2014), with Barbara Czarniawska
*''Managing Overflow in Affluent Societies'' (2012), with Barbara Czarniawska
*''The Secret World of Doing Nothing'' (2010), with Billy Ehn
*''Double Homes, Double Lives?'' (2007)
*''Magic, Culture and the New Economy'' (2006), with Robert Willim
*''Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis'' (2006), with Richard Wilk
*''Kulturanalyser'' (2001)
*''On Holiday: A History of Vacationing'' (1999)
*''Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle-class Life'' (1987), with Jonas Frykman
*''Myter om svensken'' (1984), with David Gaunt
References
External links
Löfgren on Google Scholar
1943 births
Living people
Academic staff of Lund University
Swedish ethnologists
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