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Onkel Toms stuga i Sverige : Jenny Nyströms illustrationer till upplagan från 1895
No full textBilder av ras i svensk visuell kultur är en tvärvetenskaplig antologi om hur representationer av ras etablerats, omformulerats och kritiserats i Sverige under tvåhundra år. Författarna är forskare i genusvetenskap, historia, konstvetenskap, litteraturvetenskap, medievetenskap, musei- och biblioteksvetenskap samt språkvetenskap, och nedslag görs i material från flera tidsepoker: bokillustrationer från 1800-talet, reklamaffischer och rasbiologiska fotografier från 1900-talets första hälft, tv- och filmkultur samt skämtbilder från 2000-talet. Utan att ge en heltäckande bild av problematiken närmar sig författarna materialet med en bred uppsättning angreppssätt och perspektiv; det visuella materialet diskuteras utifrån begrepp som dekolonialitet, representation, stereotyp, makt, genus, vithet och bildbruk
2000 år utan keramik? : mot en förståelse av keramiktraditionens försvinnande i Dalarna under mellanneolitikum
No full textRecently, a worn prehistoric ceramic sherd was found in a field outside the city of Borlänge in the province of Dalarna, central Sweden. The sherd has been identified as a fragment of a vessel belonging to the Battle Axe culture, the first one ever found in Dalarna. At the same time, the sherd is the youngest known Stone Age pottery in the province, and after that the craft seems to have disappeared.The first reappearance dates to the Early Iron Age, 500 BCE–400 CE. Both south and north of Dalarna, ceramic production carried on continuously from the time it was introduced during the Neolithic. With very few exceptions (including northernmost Norway), this applies to the entire northern circumpolar part oft he world despite difficulties in finding raw materials, fuel and suitable weather to perform the craft. Dalarna offers all the prerequisites for producing pottery, but despite this, and despite decades of contract archeology in the province, it seems from the current state of research that this was not done for about 2000 years. The main question is therefore: how may we understand why the ceramic tradition ceased in Dalarna at the end of the Stone Age
Resources in death : the past in the late Viking Age burials in the cemetery of Havor, Gotland
No full textThe cemetery of Havor, Hablingbo parish, on Gotland was in use from the Pre-Roman Iron Age to the early Vendel Period. In the late Viking Age, the local community decided to return to the traditional cemetery. The most prominent feature of those later Viking Age burials was the regular re-use of older graves. Even though secondary burials are widely known from Viking Age Gotland and mainland Scandinavia, the proportion was extraordinarily high at Havor. Furthermore, the secondary burials show a rather divergent interaction with the human remains from the primary burials. In some graves the disturbance of the older burial was avoided, while in many other graves the primary burial was dislocated or destroyed. Thus, the burials illustrate an intensive use of the past and local traditions and exhibit at least two different strategies in the interaction with the past and memories as resources for the local identity, from an integrative linkage to local traditions and the ancestors buried at Havor to a confrontative dissociation. Yet it was important for all communities that laid their dead to restat Havor to link – and thus to legitimise – religious and socio-political transformationsand new cultural influences to the traditional cemetery which was regardedas manifestation of a collective identity. Through the ostentatious references to the past and local traditions, the burials from the late Viking Age are a fascinating case study for the understanding and the socio-cultural adoption of the past for the construction of local identities
Runorna i dörren till Hulterstads kyrka (Öl 60) och den sena runtraditionen på Öland
No full textÖland ger ett brett spektrum av runinskrifter från skilda tider. Äldst är det runristade bryne från Borgholm i Räpplinge, som bär den korta texten 'HAin' 'bryne' (Williams 2003) och som sannolikt tillhör övergången mellan vendeltid och vikingatid. Bland de yngsta finns de runor som prästen Joannes Olai från Kalmar skrev på väggen i Runstenskyrka (Öl 35) under 1500-talets första hälft. Till den senare sällar sig också ett par andra efterreformatoriska runinskrifter från samma trakt (Öl 32 och Öl 34). De öländska runinskrifterna har annars sin tyngdpunkt i den sena vikingatiden, men såväl lösfunna föremål som gravhällar och inskrifter på kyrkväggar visar att runskriften var i bruk på ön under en stor del av medeltiden. Frågan är dock om runorna på Öland har en obruten tradition in i nyare tid eller om de exempel som vi finner under 1500-talet och senare beror på inflytande utifrån. Som utgångspunkt har jag valt en runinskrift från Hulterstads kyrka(Öl 60), som nog kan karakteriseras som Ölands minst kända.Evighetsruno
Elk hunting on crusted snow in the Stone Age
No full textHunting elk on crusted snow in late winter/early springmight, have been important when surplus was running low. The data we have about such hunt is to my knowledge a Stone Age panel from Vyg in Russia, a description from subarctic Canada in the 1770s, and a story from Sweden in 1848. In addition, there is as well another Stone Age panel that I find relevant, this one from Kanozero in Russia, showing a bear hunt
A compositional study of a gold-plated Viking Age pendant from the Åland Islands
No full textDuring the University of Helsinki field school excavations in 2020 in Bartsgårda, Åland, a well-preserved, intricately decorated copper alloy pendant (ÅM 820:79) was discovered in the upper layers of the Late Iron Age house foundation (Ilves 2021).