Sensitive Objects

Jonas Frykman is professor emeritus of European ethnology at the Department of Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden and was professor II at Agderforskning, Kristiansand, Norway between 2009 and 2015. He co-edited the Blackwell Companion to the Anthropology of Europe (with Ulrich Kockel and Mairead Nic Craith, 2012). His interest in material culture and body resulted in the books Being There: New Trends in Phenomenology and the Analysis of Culture (co-edited with Nils Gilje, 2003) and Berörd: Plats, kropp och ting i fenomenologisk kulturanalys [Affected: Place, Body and Objects in a Phenomenological Analysis of Culture] (2012). He is the chair of the working group Body, Affects, Senses, and Emotions of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF).

Maja Povrzanovic Frykman is professor of ethnology and teaches at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden. Since 2015 she has been involved in a number of research projects at Agderforskning, Kristiansand, Norway. Her main research interests are war-related experiences, diaspora and transnational practices, place, ethnicity and material culture. Her publications on civilians in war include chapters in the Greenwood collection Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe (2008) and in theBlackwell Companion to the Anthropology of Europe (2012). She is currently writing about migrants and transnational material practices.