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- Arwill-Nordbladh, Elisabeth, 1947, et al.
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Affective interventions and ‘the hegemonic other’ in runestones from Västergötland and Södermanland, Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Current Swedish Archaeology. - 1102-7355 .- 2002-3901. ; 29:1, s. 155-182
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the eleventh century AD, the Scandinavian countries were in the final stage of the process of conversion to Christianity. Local and regional processes of negotiations towards a Christian hegemony took various courses in different parts of Scandinavia. There are few substantial indications that social tensions resulted in violence. Rather, archaeological evidence indicates a gradual change. This paper highlights how these processes of negotiations were expressed by counter-hegemonic groups that took advantage of the affective affordances of runestones. By raising specific runestones, these non-Christian groups were part of an agonistic political process, as described by the political philosopher Chantal Mouffe.
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- Fahlander, Fredrik, et al.
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Editorial
- 2013
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Ingår i: Current Swedish Archaeology. - : The Swedish Archaeological Society & Nordic Academic Press. - 1102-7355 .- 2002-3901. ; 21:1, s. 8-9
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- Fahlander, Fredrik, et al.
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Editorial
- 2015
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Ingår i: Current Swedish Archaeology. - : The Swedish Archaeological Society & Nordic Academic Press. - 1102-7355 .- 2002-3901. ; 23:1, s. 8-11
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- Fahlander, Fredrik, et al.
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Editorial
- 2014
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Ingår i: Current Swedish Archaeology. - : The Swedish Archaeological Society & Nordic Academic Press. - 1102-7355 .- 2002-3901. ; 22:1, s. 8-9
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- Fahlander, Fredrik, 1965-
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The materiality of the ancient dead : Post-burial practices and ontologies of death in southern sweden AD 800–1200
- 2016
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Ingår i: Current Swedish Archaeology. - : Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet. - 1102-7355 .- 2002-3901. ; 24, s. 137-162
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This text discusses reuse and modications of older graves in southern Sweden during the Late Iron Age and early medieval period (c. 9th to 12th centuries AD). Post-burial practices in the Late Iron Age have in general been interpreted as means to negotiate status, identity and rights to land, while in the later part of the period they are comprehended as expressions of religious insecurity and syncretism. In this text, the continuity of post-burial practices during the whole period is stressed and instead of general top-down interpretative models, the ontological status and material aspects of death, dead bodies and their graves is emphasized. It is argued that the post-burial actions generally constituted ways of relating to a specific type of materiality, the bones of the ancient dead, which transgress binary categorizations such as living–dead, past–present, heathen–Christian, and human–nonhuman. The argument builds on recently excavated sites in southern Sweden: Bogla, Broby Bro, Lilla Ullevi, Valsta and Vittene.
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- Fredengren, Christina
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Nature:Cultures : Heritage, Sustainability and Feminist Posthumanism
- 2015
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Ingår i: Current Swedish Archaeology. - : Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet. - 1102-7355 .- 2002-3901. ; 23, s. 109-130
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper makes use of feminist posthumanism to outline how a range of heritage policies, practices and strategies, partly through their base in social constructivism have a clear anthropocentric focus. Not only do they risk downplaying materiality, but also a number of human and non-human others, driving a wedge between nature and culture. This may in turn be an obstacle for the use of heritage in sustainable development as it deals with range of naturalized others as if they have no agency and leaves the stage open for appropriation and exploitation.This paper probes into what heritage could be in the wake of current climate and environmental challenges if approached differently. It explores how a selection of feminist posthumanisms challenge the distinction between nature:culture in a way that could shift the approach to sustainability in heritage making from a negative to an affirmative framing.
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- Fredengren, Christina
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Personhood of Water : Depositions of Bodies and Things in Water Contexts as a Way of Observing Agential Relationships
- 2018
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Ingår i: Current Swedish Archaeology. - : Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet. - 1102-7355 .- 2002-3901. ; 26, s. 219-245
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper stems from a curiosity about relationships between water, depositions, life, death and sacrifice. It probes into how traditional binaries such as nature/culture, human/ animal, alive/dead and language/reality were addressed in Irish medieval place lore, using critical posthumanist theory to explore ways in which agential powers were not merely ascribed to the environment, but also observed and acknowledged by people in the past. It also considers how the agentialities of both artefacts and waters could have affected and made their way into human storytelling. In so doing, the paper presents a contribution from archaeology to the emerging field of environmental humanities, offering research that could entice us to sharpen our environmental sensibilities and respond to environmental change. Depositions of things and bodies in wet contexts are often understood as sacrifices made to deities located in the otherworld. However, there is plentiful evidence in archaeology and in medieval place-lore to suggest that waters were observed as being alive, as immanent beings, as more-than-human persons who could have received these depositions as gifts. This study explores how depositions would have added to and reconfigured such water-personhood in locally and regionally situated ways, and how they may also have worked as apparatuses for paying close attention to the water environment.
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- Fredengren, Christina
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Re-wilding the Environmental Humanities : A Deep Time Comment
- 2018
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Ingår i: Current Swedish Archaeology. - : Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet. - 1102-7355 .- 2002-3901. ; 26, s. 50-60
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The reasoning around the Anthropocene starts with a sobering clarification – human agency has not only created high culture, such as buildings, tools or art, by its actions. What are left are also heritages of species and gender inequalities, scarred landscapes, waste, toxicities, species extinctions, mono-cultures, layers at the beds of oceans, climate and environmental change. This is a mixed heritage (often unlabelled) that is the result of material interferences that change the textures of times, that territorialize futures to come, that shape the spaces and cartographies within which future (multispecies) generations can manoeuvre.I ask again, with Haraway (2016:100), what measures need to be taken to make the Anthropocene as thin as possible? What are the means with which the humanities, however loosely formed, can contribute with towards that end? Here I share the visions of Riede, but find the paper somewhat limiting. Does the present predicament not demand of us a more undisciplined academic encounter – and a rewilding of the humanities – to form these transversal modes of querying past, present, futures? Does it not need a lot of creativity to find a range of engagements, knowledges and inspirations to work elsewise? What interests me is how to expand on scientifically informed multi-species storytelling, with a base in archaeological materials that deals with how to tie human-animal knots and temporal relations in other ways. There are other ways to relate to and be related to by the environment (see Fredengren, this volume). For such it is very premature to set boundaries for what archaeology may bring to the Environmental Humanities table, as both subjects are on the move. Likewise, I ask how heritage is captured as time elements, in presentisms, in merges of materialities and meaning, in troubled bodies, in how to deal with anthropocentrism in heritage making, how to capture heritages as process ontologies as human-animal relations (Fredengren 2015, 2018). I also ask what modes and models of stewardship (who cares for whom, according to what ethic and on what mandate) come with the heritage business? I am curious about people’s relationships with the more-than-human, with things, place and spaces, and with care and curatorship in a wider sense. However, I do not envisage the meeting between environmental humanities and archaeology to be limited to these matters, but to be developed through various creative and affirmative encounters. And then I ask … for what causes do we do this? Is it to establish subject boundaries and to carve up academic terrain, or for forming new types of unexpected collaborations? And perhaps, at the end of the day … as many of us would say, don’t we do it … for the love of the world?
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- Holtorf, Cornelius, 1968-
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No Farewell to Interpretation
- 2012
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Ingår i: Current Swedish Archaeology. - : Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet. - 1102-7355 .- 2002-3901. ; 20, s. 57-60
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