Traces of the Past: the Finnish Mentality through History and Cultural Memory — a phenomenological and cognitive perspective
Traces of the Past: the Finnish Mentality through History and Cultural Memory — a phenomenological and cognitive perspective

Summary/Abstract: The history of a single nation such as Finland is concerned with the shapes and forms of cultural traditions, practices and their historical evolution. The question is: How do we perceive it? The formal features and possible meanings of these processes are numerous and differ in variations between the most objective and the most subjective. Our perspective describes and discusses these variations. Overall, the historical approach towards a nation creates an extensive archive of traces of the past, a certain repository of architectural and audiovisual revitalisation of the times. Another thing is how we as contemporary viewers see them. // After an introduction of some of the issues which have always been prominent in debates around a nation’s past and function, we might explore in a more detailed way the dimensions in which these visions have been understood, and how, in the course of time, they have acquired a wider range of connotations.

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