Samtal med vinden
Journal: Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift
Year: 2015

Unlike other ethnographic objects, it is impossible to put a label on the wind. Air and winds are everywhere and transcend time and place. The “new meteorology” became an international movement in the late 19th century. Cooperation between countries was a necessity. There were clear similarities with the dream of one world in which peoples spoke the same language, the wars were over and the “narrow-minded nations” dissolved. In this sense, a world culture became realized in a limited field. The