1151 | 293 | Reassembling the Seventeenth-century Swedish Place-name Policies | Alexandra Petrulevich
In this talk, I will elucidate the Swedish large-scale cadastral mapping of the seventeenth century as the first ever attempt at conscious place-name policymaking in the Swedish context—especially in multilingual areas. To the best of my knowledge, this perspective has been absent in the existing literature on Swedish large-scale cadastral mapping or place-name policies. The principal research question is: How was place-name policymaking with respect to non-Scandinavian place-names performed across the multilingual Empire? The analysis builds upon examination of a selection of cadastral maps and land-surveyors’ textual descriptions, the body of the Crown’s instructions as well as excerpted place-names. Practical implementation of Kammarkollegiet’s and Lantmäteriet’s regulations vary across the Swedish conglomerate state. For this reason, cadastral maps and descriptions from three language contact areas are investigated: Västerbotten in Sweden (Sámi, Finnish and Swedish), Turku and Pori in Finland (Finnish and Swedish) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany (West Slavic, Low German and Swedish). Actor-network theory is chosen as the best suitable framework for the analysis because it combines a highly empirical approach to primary sources and a set of abstract tools assisting in teasing out arrangements of constituents and their relations when place-names are collected and processed. Additionally, I weave in threads of philological and linguistic investigations of the material into the bulk of the study’s analytical cloth in order to elucidate temporal and linguistic complexities of examined material._x000D_
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This work was supported by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences Riksbankens Jubileumsfond under Grant P20-0105.
Alexandra Petrulevich
Uppsala University, Sweden
ID Abstract: 293