Freezers full of gold : Living well with landscape in rural Northern Sweden

• Published in: Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift
• Main Author: Bartlett, Flora Mary
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Nordic Museum 2023
• Subjects: freezers; Northern Sweden; materiality; landscape relations; frysbox; Norrland; materialism; landskaprelationer; Social Anthropology; Socialantropologi; Arjeplog; Kroppen; Norra Sverige
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-198895; https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v32.2173

The modern chest freezer has significantly altered food storage practices in Sweden. Based on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Arjeplog (rural Northern Sweden/ Swedish Sápmi), this article investigates how the chest freezer plays a crucial role in more-than-human networks of food, sustainabil...