Kvinnor, män och osämja

Abstract

The article discusses processes of hostility among small farming communities in northern Sweden. Conflicts connected to place, family and gender concerning issues like roads, fences, hunting and fishing, and distributions of estate are very common. Is it possible to compare these rather small and ordinary conflicts with "bigger" conflicts like warfare and terrorism? The continuous processes of exclusion and iteration can be seen as two cultural forces that contribute to making conflicts long-lasting and traumaic, and these forces do indeed make it possible to compare conflicts, big ones as well as small ones.