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For 6.000 år siden blev en ung mand begravet i en køkkenmødding i Nordvestsjælland. Han bærer vidnesbyrd om menneskets virkelige superkraft
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En firbenet følgesvend i velfærdsstatens tjeneste
No full textOm fører- og servicehunde i Danmark fra 1949-2024<br/
The Afterlife of Pilgrim Signs in Europe:use, re-use and ritual practice
No full textTo date, over 30,000 finds of religious souvenirs (pilgrim signs) from different parts of Europe are recorded inpublicly accessible databases. Such items are traditionally considered sources for understanding religious industry,travel and networks. The perception has been that their role was generally over as soon as they were nolonger a part of the pilgrim’s personal equipment. However, artefact studies using public finds databases showmany examples with traces of extensive wear and modification. This indicates that they might have had anextended afterlife in different contexts as items laden with religious symbolism and inherent powers. As such,they were a part of everyday life as objects of use, handled in pragmatic ways that included reshaping, cutting,piercing and bending. This should be taken into consideration when interpreting their find contexts, and howthey are deposited in their owners’ surroundings, whether in water, wetlands, cultural layers, buildings, burialsor incorporated in church furnishing
Notes on cultural heritage, botany and non-botany – for art historians
No full textDette paper adresserer den særlige form for planteblindhed, der knytter sig til kulturarven af domesticerede kulturplanter: Vores arv af gamle sorter af grøntsager, korn og andre afgrøder lader til at undslipper vores institutionelle hukommelse, og ansvaret for hvis pleje i bemærkelsesværdig grad nu er overladt i hænderne på hobbyfrøsamlere. Paperet leder efter rødderne til denne særlige type planteblindhed i Carl Linnés tænkning og hans botaniske taksonomi, der adskiller natur fra ikke-natur – botanik fra ikke-botanik. Jeg undersøger traditionerne for botanisk illustration i 1600-tallets florilegier, Flora Danica (1761–1883) og endelig i Ellen Backes (1891–1976) illustrationer af korn, grøntsager og frugt, udført på Den Kongelige Veterinær- og Landbohøjskole mellem 1933 og 1958. Afslutningsvis foreslår jeg, at de gamle landsorter og arvesorter af vores domesticerede planter kan betragtes som spøgelser fra fortidige naturkulturer: nicheløse levende døde, der hjemsøger frøsamleres haver længe efter, at deres naturligt-kulturelle habitat er forsvundet.This paper addresses a particular kind of plant blindness that concerns the cultural heritage of the domesticated crop plants. Our heritage of heirloom vegetables, fruits, cereals and other crop and culture plants seem to escape our institutional cultural memory and its care is to a remarkable extent now left in the hands of hobby seed savers. This paper looks for the roots of this particular type of plant blindness in the thinking of Carl Lineaus and his central taxonomy separating nature from non-natur – botany from non-botany. I address the traditions of botanical illustration in seventeenth-century florilegia, Flora Danica (1761-1883) and centrally the cereal, vegetable and fruit illustrations of Ellen Backe (1891 – 1976) created at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University between 1933 and 1958. I conclude by proposing that the old breeds and heirloom varieties of our domesticated plants could be regarded as ghosts of naturecultures past: Nicheless living dead that are roaming seed saver gardens long after their naturalcultural habitats have disappeared