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- Alkarp, Magnus, 1959-
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Det Gamla Uppsala : Berättelser & Metamorfoser
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ancient Uppsala is a most versatile place. At various times it has sated all types of scholar, nourished every kind of ideology, and fed all forms of doubt. Portrayals of the site have almost exclusively been made at times when it was necessary to define the relationship between the people and the elite, the elite and the Crown, or the Crown and the Church. These narratives take many forms – ancient myths, missionary tales, stories of princely power play, the struggle for social integration in early modern Sweden, or tales about absolute royal power, the free peasant, the oppressed serf, centralism, or the manipulation of history. Uppsala, almost without exception, was the stage on which vital scenes of this kind were played out. This type of narrative, of which there is no shortage, is the main focus of this thesis. It aims to analyse how the image of Viking Age and medieval Uppsala was formed and has changed at various times, to follow the threads of discussion, and to place ideas pertaining to the site in their historical and intellectual context. The thesis sheds light on two periods in particular: the Gothism of the seventeenth century, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the latter period characterized by nationalism, racial biology, and political extremism. The dreams (and nightmares) of scholars are contrasted with the Gamla Uppsala of reality. Abundant archive material readily allows us to follow the nature of daily life in Gamla Uppsala parish, and to analyse how its inhabitants protected themselves from the material and spiritual destruction of the site. Today, the most significant archaeological observations are often made in the archive, where ‘ancient’ remains are frequently reappraised as relatively mundane products of the more recent past.
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Ancient Death Ways : Proceedings of the workshop on archaeology and mortuary practices. Uppsala, 16–17 May 2013
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ancient Death Ways – proceedings of the workshop on archaeology and mortuary practices, contains articles of the work in progress presented and discussed at the Ancient Death Ways 2013 meeting, which was organised around three main themes: current research, landscapes of death, and defining death. The diversity of case studies and subjects tackled by the participants reflects the richness of the field of archaeological research concerning death studies. This book does not aim to be a treaty on the archaeology of death in 2013, but rather a straightforward outcome of the sessions. The series of eight articles is introduced and closed by two commentary essays from two of the moderators of the workshop.
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- Andersson, Fredrik, 1972-
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Med historien i ryggen : Om den arkeologiska uppgiften
- 2005
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation explores the boundaries of archaeology. Its subject is an archaeological practice that no longer seems to be able to challenge our modern conception of the world. We are faced with an archaeology that takes the form of a conservative and repetitive practice, because of the discipline’s demand that discussions on epistemology and ontology within its discourse should be incorporated in a presupposed teleological assignment. They must be part of the modern archaeological project or else their critique is irrelevant.The initial disappointment is transformed into an inquisitive exploration of archaeology’s limitations. At the archaeological frontier several keywords are used to illustrate the architecture of that archaeological space. Concepts such as narrative, time, the trace and reality act as themes for a conversation on archaeology and the archaeological. Postprocessual archaeology is called upon as a primary discussant in this conversation, playing the part of a textual embodiment of a virtual archaeological formula. One major component of this formula that is discussed is archaeology’s connection to the historical. History as a narrative form, as a perspective on time and as a metanarrative to refer our statements to, is found to be a metaphysical fundament for the archaeological project, delimiting our understanding of the temporal relationship between the past and the present.The thesis briefly discusses an alternative nostalgic archaeology but this hypothetical post-historic archaeology can never be articulated, since its destiny will be the same as all other similar attempts within archaeology – i.e. to become part of an updated modern archaeological practice. The exploration then ends with an insight that there is no escape from either archaeology or modernity. What is left is only to point out the boundaries, and to let the dreams of freedom that go beyond them keep us from falling into a discursive sleep.
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- Andersson, Kent, et al.
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Germanerna och Rom
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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Bronsålderns Håga : Fornlämningar, fynd och förbindelser
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den stora bronsåldershögen i Håga, utanför Uppsala, har länge dragit blickarna till sig. Hågahögen, även ibland kallad Kung Björns hög, är den mest kända fornlämningen på platsen men kring högen finns även flera andra spår från bronsåldern, bland annat kulthus, skärvstenshögar och en fornborg. Hågahögen undersöktes i början av 1900-talet och utgrävningen avslöjade bland annat att högen hade anlagts ca. 1100–900 f.Kr. och att den avlidne hade kremerats och begravts i en ekkista. Det var mycket oväntat att påträffa en bronsåldershög så långt norrut som i Uppsalatrakten. Att den dessutom innehöll en mycket rik uppsättning föremål av brons och guld är en stor anledning till att Hågahögen har varit mycket uppmärksammad inom den arkeologiska forskningen sedan dess. I mer än ett sekel har Håga varit central i tolkningarna och förståelsen av bronsåldern i Mälardalen. Även om Hågahögen är exceptionell är graven och Håga en del av en större samhällsutveckling i Uppland och Mälardalen under yngre bronsåldern. I denna bok samlas artiklar som behandlar olika aspekter av Håga och utvecklingen i Hågaområdet under bronsåldern, men även under senare tidsperioder.
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- Edenmo, Roger, 1960-
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Prestigeekonomi under yngre stenåldern : Gåvoutbyten och regionala identiteter i den svenska båtyxekulturen
- 2008
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thesis identifies and discusses some fundamental changes that took place during the middle neolithic period in Sweden, with the introduction of the Boat Axe Culture. The possibility of intrepreting the Corded Ware Cultures by way of networks, identified through the regional designes of battle axes, are proposed. With the aid of a reconsideration of the typology of the Swedish boat axes, ethnographic examples of gift-exchanges, and a theoretical reappraisal of the implications of archaeological praxis for prehistorc life-worlds, new possibillities for interpreting the changing role of such prestige items as the boat-axes are presented. A new chronological scheme is also presented for the Swedish boat axes, with a tripartite division of the latter middle neolithic into MN BI-III. The value of the boat axe is further considered to be explicable only in terms of a prestige item, dependent on a system of exchange for its continual valuation. Central to this discussion is the relationship between value and exchange. Several regions within the Swedish Boat Axe Culture are identified, and the boat axes in two of these regions in the southern part of the Mälar valley are thoroughly examined. It is shown that during the cours of the Boat Axe period, the emphasis gradually changed from a regional to an intra-regional focus concerning the development of types and special designes of the boat axes. Identified similarities and dissimilarities of contemporary boat axes within and between regions are explained as a result of a parallel change in gift exchanges, from a regional focus to an intra-regional focus. An hierarchical ordering of the latter middle neolithic soceity is also identified, where only a portion of the boat-axes were selected as burial gifts. This development is chartered onto the broader neolithic development in Sweden, with special focus on the role of prestige items such as battle axes. A fundamental change is identified as taking place during the Boat Axe period, when the full implications of a prestige economy were implemented and the major strategies for power settled on the inter-regional level.
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- Göthberg, Hans
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Bebyggelse i förändring : Uppland från slutet av yngre bronsålder till tidig medeltid
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation discusses settlements from the end of the Late Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages in eastern Middle Sweden, especially the Mälar valley area, with a focus on Uppland. Chronologically, the emphasis is in the Early Iron Age. A large number of the settlements were discovered during investigations in the late 80s and early 90s. Many settlements were, located on arable land, which means that the degree of preservation varies. An important limitation, which influences our interpretation, is that only parts of the settlements have been investigated.The discussion is divided into four main themes on different levels of interpretation. The first theme is the construction and function of the houses. Variations in construction, function and size are the basis for a proposal of a house chronology for Uppland and the Mälar valley area. The houses are characterised by a three aisled construction, which lasted almost the whole of the discussed time period. On a more detailed level, there was a large variation, which indicates that the local needs were given much importance.The second theme is the structure, variation and main tendencies of the settlement. During the larger part of the period discussed here, the settlements were characterised by scattered settlement sites, which developed in the Roman Iron Age into a successively more concentrated settlement distribution.The third theme is the change in settlements based on systems of agriculture and social differentiation, and how these changes influenced the settlement pattern. Such changes are e.g. the emergence of fairly stable settlements and agricultural systems, and the transition from an agriculture dominated by cattle to one based on cultivation.The fourth theme discusses the settlement development based on settlement sites and grave fields. Chronologically, the settlement sites thus constitute a complement to the grave-fields. The investigations indicate a high density of settlements at the end of the Early Iron Age in the central agricultural areas. During the Late Iron Age, no such expansion can be seen in these areas, to the extent of a faint decrease in some instances. Thus, both in a synchronic and diachronic perspective the population must have been decisively larger than what was previously thought. Consequently, the visible graves on the grave-fields must have been constructed for a small part of the population, and variations in the grave frequency must also be considered.
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- Hagström Yamamoto, Sara, 1974-
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I gränslandet mellan svenskt och samiskt : Identitetsdiskurser och förhistorien i Norrland från 1870-tal till 2000-tal
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thesis studies the representation of prehistory as a part of the making and remaking of ethnic identities in Northern Sweden from the end of the 19th Century until today, thus dealing with archaeology and prehistory in relation to issues such as identity, memory and politics.The thesis takes as its point of departure the constitution of a Swedish national identity and memory in the late 19th Century and subsequent decades, followed by studies of, mainly later, representations of Sámi, Kvenish (“Kvänsk”) and North Bothnian (“Norrbottnisk”) collective identities. The study material consists of texts, primarily analyzed through discourse and narrative analysis.The thesis demonstrates how the constitution of a Swedish national identity in Northern Sweden constructed a dichotomy between an imagined civilized “Swedishness”, belonging to the future, and an imagined primitive Sámi Other, belonging to the past. It is argued that this discursive boundary work has not just situated some persons and their everyday life in a marginal position as a visible Sámi Other, but has also situated a substantial number of the inhabitants of Northern Sweden more or less in liminality and marginality in relation to the national identity structure. This has created a need for people to officially represent a more satisfactory collective identity, which includes a rewriting of the prehistory of the area.The last chapter relates the results to studies of similar cases in colonial and postcolonial contexts outside Europe. The essentialist view of identity and history present in several of the studied representations is also discussed. The thesis emphasizes the importance of a more nuanced view of relationships of ethnicity, domination and subordination, and the associated formation of collective memories, in Northern Sweden. Discourses of ethnicity and domination often function through simplifying dichotomies, but dichotomies alone cannot explain real conditions and consequences of these matters.
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