Kulttuurihistoriallisena

Kulttuurihistoriallisena is a Finnish grammatical form that expresses “as cultural-historical” or “in a cultural-historical sense.” It is the essive form of the compound adjective kulttuurihistoriallinen, formed with the suffix -na/-nä, and is used to describe a state, role, or perspective. For example, kulttuurihistoriallisena ilmiönä means “as a cultural-historical phenomenon.”

Usage

The form is common in scholarly and analytical writing in disciplines such as history, archaeology, museology, and cultural studies, where authors want to frame observations from a cultural-historical perspective. It typically accompanies a subject in the essive construction, as in: “Kohde tarkastellaan kulttuurihistoriallisena ilmiönä” (The subject is examined as a cultural-historical phenomenon), or “kulttuurihistoriallisena näkökulmana” (as a cultural-historical perspective).

Notes

The term is not a standalone concept but a grammatical device. Understanding it requires basic knowledge of the essive case and Finnish compound adjectives.

See also

Finnish grammar – Essive case; Compound adjectives.