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- Andersson, Josefina, et al.
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Visible men and elusive women
- 2011
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In: International Journal of Historical Archaeology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1092-7697 .- 1573-7748. ; 15:1, s. 10-29
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Early gender archaeology formulated two statements: men are visible, women are invisible, and men work in hard materials, women work in soft materials. We discuss these dichotomies in connection with nineteenth-century folklore and an excavated eighteenth-century cottage at a summer-farm. We conclude that much of the gendered order-of-work tasks broke down in pragmatic day-to-day life, especially by women crossing the gender border. However, social chaos was held at bay by ritual acts and magic objects.
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- Bergqvist Rydén, Johanna
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When Bereaved of Everything : Objects from the Concentration Camp of Ravensbrück as Expressions of Resistance, Memory, and Identity
- 2018
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In: International Journal of Historical Archaeology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1092-7697 .- 1573-7748. ; 22:3, s. 511-530
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- When survivors from the Ravensbrück concentration camp arrived in Sweden in spring 1945, some of the objects they brought with them from the camp were collected and preserved. These are modest in appearance, but were – as oral testimonies show – invaluable in camp. The concentration camp context of obliteration stretches the limits of interpretation of material culture to its extreme. In this article the objects are discussed as expressions of resistance, memory, and identity. These immaterial values were among the most vital coping strategies used by the prisoners against the dehumanization laid upon them by the camp administration. The material culture was central in enabling, upholding, and realizing these.
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- Cornell, Per, 1962, et al.
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A Scandinavian Town and Its Hinterland: The Case of Nya Lödöse
- 2018
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In: International Journal of Historical Archaeology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1092-7697 .- 1573-7748. ; 22:2, s. 186-202
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Discussing Nordic towns in medieval and Early Modern eras must always start by noting that this is, at least up to the seventeenth century, a kind of periphery. In this article, we summarize aspects of the sixteenth-century town of Nya Lödöse and its hinterland, drawing on both archaeological and historical knowledge. The hinterland experienced an economic development in the sixteenth century, and increased volumes of exports of wood, iron, and animal products passed the town. Several actor-collectives operated on Nya Lödöse and they played an important part in a military and economic sense. But most of the people of Nya Lödöse lived in poor and sad conditions, not least when compared to the utopia genre of the times. The skeletal material from the churchyard at Nya Lödöse shows the wide distribution of a number of diseases, and a high degree of violence among men. Poverty and misery characterized the location.
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- Dezhamkhooy, M., et al.
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Flowers in the Garbage: Transformations of Prostitution in Iran in the late Nineteenth-Twenty-First Centuries in Iran
- 2020
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In: International Journal of Historical Archaeology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1092-7697 .- 1573-7748. ; 24, s. 728-750
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The archaeology of garbage project was conducted in 2017-18 to investigate the daily garbage of inhabitants of two districts of Tehran. Among the discarded materials, we recognized scattered evidence of prostitutes' daily life. Finding such evidence gave us an alibi to work on the historical documents in order to trace the patterns of prostitution in nineteenth-century Tehran. In this article, we configure "the geography of prostitution" and the politics of marginalization in the largest city of Iran through investigating the material culture found in garbage fills, surveying the city plan, photos, written documents, and archival data.
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- Hansson, Martin
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Inscriptions and Images in Secular Buildings : Examples from Renaissance Scania, Sweden, ca. 1450–1658
- 2022
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In: International Journal of Historical Archaeology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1573-7748 .- 1092-7697. ; 26, s. 623-646
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper examines how agents inscribed their persona in buildings during the Renaissance in Scania in present-day Sweden. Through an analysis of stone tablets and timber beams with inscriptions, images, and dates, questions of identity and individuality are highlighted. The objects were often placed above doors in noble country residences or in buildings belonging to the urban elite. The paper discusses who was able to see and understand the messages communicated by the buildings, and when, how, and why the tradition of putting up this type of object on buildings emerged in a Scandinavian context.
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- Hansson, Martin, et al.
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Invisible and Ignored : The Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Subalterns in Sweden
- 2020
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In: International Journal of Historical Archaeology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1092-7697 .- 1573-7748. ; 24, s. 1-21
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper aims to discuss subalterns in different social environments in Sweden. The potential of archaeological studies of landless subalterns in rural and urban areas are shown though a number of case studies. It is argued that archaeology can show the multivocality of the lives of the subalterns, in the same way as it shows how the subalterns organized their daily life. This is done through the use of the concepts of matterscape, powerscape, and mindscape. The subalterns used the physical landscape (matterscape) according to prevailing norms and power structures (powerscape), thus creating a perceptive understanding of their daily landscape (mindscape).
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- Hjertman, Martina, 1982, et al.
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The Social Impacts of War: Agency and Everyday Life in the Borderlands during the Early Seventeenth Century
- 2018
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In: International Journal of Historical Archaeology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1092-7697 .- 1573-7748. ; 22:2, s. 226-244
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper, we address some of the social impacts of war, including issues of negotiating identity during displacement caused by war. What it meant to be Swedish or Danish-Norwegian in a town where there was a not insubstantial population of foreign merchants would clearly be an ambiguous situation. Burghers were elected by fellow citizens, who were themselves from other parts of Sweden, Scandinavia, and Northern Europe, including Germany, Holland, England, and Scotland. Allegiances were contingent, and in many cases among aliens probably more local than national. The social impacts of war in modern-day west Sweden extended beyond the towns directly affected, such as Nya Lödöse and Ny Varberg. The degree to which individuals could act with agency and autonomy was contingent and context-specific. Forced migration and the negotiation of identity are issues that remain relevant today; questions of memory, property, trauma, history, and narratives are still debated by combatants and non-combatants. Many of the issues which both civilians and military men and women experienced in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century wars between Sweden and Denmark-Norway are much the same as in more recent times. The social impacts of war in the seventeenth century were no less than those experienced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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- May, Sally K., et al.
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Symbols of Power : The Firearm Paintings of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II)
- 2017
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In: International Journal of Historical Archaeology. - : Springer. - 1092-7697 .- 1573-7748. ; 21:3, s. 690-707
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Depictions of firearms in Australian Aboriginal rock art provide a unique opportunity to archaeologically explore the roles that this type of material culture played in times of culture contact. From the earliest interactions with explorers to the buffalo shooting enterprises of the twentieth century-firearms played complex and shifting roles in western Arnhem Land Aboriginal societies. The site of Madjedbebe (sometimes referred to as Malakunanja II in earlier academic literature) in Jabiluka (Mirarr Country), offers the opportunity to explore these shifting roles over time with an unprecedented 16 paintings of firearms spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This rock art provides evidence for early firearms as objects of curiosity and threat to local groups, as well as evidence for later personal ownership and use of such weaponry. Moreover, we argue that the rock art suggests increasing incorporation of firearms into traditional cultural belief and artistic systems over time with Madjedbebe playing a key role in the communication of the cultural meanings behind this new subject matter.
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