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Within its wide boundaries, culture creates written and visual reflection areas for itself. As the reflection area expands through time, space and nature, it becomes richer, and, in doing so, it needs to be appreciated. The cultural reflection of historical accumulation leaves us in front of an immense mirror. In general terms, this book presents the reader with the intertwined relationships between culture and literature, culture and language, and culture and history or art history. More specifically, it investigates the joy of a birth, a funeral ritual, the merriness of a melody, and the taste of a meal as they are reflected within the texts that Asia has accumulated throughout its history. Its central concern is the investigatation of issues related to culture and how it is reflected in literature, language, or history in a particular place. --

This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as 'model societies', with egalitarian welfare policies, low rates of poverty, humane social policies and human rights oriented internal agendas. This book, however, paints a much more nuanced picture of the welfare policies, ideologies and social control in strong centralistic states. Based on extensive new empirical data, leading Nordic and international scholars discuss the relationship between prison conditions in Scandinavia and Scandinavian social policy more generally, and argue that it is not always liberating and constructive to be embraced by a powerful welfare state. This book is essential reading for researchers of state punishment in Scandinavia, and it is highly relevant for anyone interested in the 'Nordic Model' of social policy.

Approaches to the History of Written Culture -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 A World Inscribed - Introduction -- Approaching the History of Scribal Culture -- The Social Practice of Literacy -- 'Re-purposing' and the Question of Genre -- Vernacular Writing -- The Visibility of the History of Writing -- Notes -- 2 The Babylonian Scribes and Their Libraries -- Introduction -- The Library of Nineveh -- The Library of Babylon -- Mesopotamian Scribes and the Transmission of the Scholarly Tradition -- Notes -- 3 Writings in the Korean Han'gŭl Script by and for the Women of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) -- Notes -- 4 Paper World: The Materiality of Loss in the Pre-Modern Age -- Notes -- 5 Writings on the Streets: Ephemeral Texts and Public Space in the Early Modern Hispanic World -- Introduction -- Information and Propaganda -- Signs of Protest -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Writing One's Life: The French School of the Anthropology of Writing -- Introduction -- Popular Culture and the Anthropology of Writing -- Extraordinary Men 'Without Distinction': The Compagnons of the Tour de France -- Erudite Lives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Calendar, Chronicle and Songs of Sorrows: Generic Sources of Life Writing in Nineteenth-Century Finland -- Life Writing 'from Below' -- Autobiographical Poems -- 'After-Memories', Family Inscriptions and the Chronicle -- From Calendar to Diary -- Expressing Emotions in Life Writing -- Romantic Discourse in Diaries -- Pre-Texts of Ida Digert's Diary -- Hybridity and Intimacy Re-considered -- Notes -- 8 Reading the 'Cheyenne Letter': Towards a Typology of Inscription beyond the Alphabet -- Notes -- 9 The Scribal Culture of Children: A Fragmentary History -- Childhood, Writing and History -- The Written Memory of Childhood and Infancy -- A Fragmentary History -- Conclusion -- Notes