Buildings as persons: relationality and the life of buildings in a northern periphery of early modern Sweden

Herva, Vesa-Pekka

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“…These matters are covered in the following, which shares many aspects with recent Finnish archaeological studies and their lively and necessary discussion contradicting conventional views about material culture and its essence. In addition to this they also draw heavily on domestic folk beliefs, and many points made in these studies are in accordance with the observations presented here (see for example Hukantaival 2007;Herva 2009;Herva 2010;Herva & Ylimaunu 2009;Herva et al 2010).…”

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confidence: 90%

Things in Culture, Culture in Things

Kannike¹,

Laviolette²

2013

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Aims & scopeThe Approaches to Culture Theory book series focuses on various aspects of analysis, modelling, and theoretical understanding of culture. Culture theory as a set of complementary theories is seen to include and combine the approaches of different sciences, among them semiotics of culture, archaeology, environmental history, ethnology, cultural ecology, cultural and social anthropology, human geography, sociology and the psychology of culture, folklore, media and communication studies. Series editorsKalevi Kull Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu Introduction. Storing and storying the serendipity of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Patrick Laviolette Soft objectsThe natural order is decay: the home as an ephemeral art project . Notes on editors and contributorsMaria Cristache (Maria.Cristache@gcsc.uni-giessen.de) completed a Master's degree in sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, Hungary. She is currently a doctoral student at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University, Giessen. Her research interests include material culture, post-socialism, sociology and the anthropology of consumption, including patterns of taste and consumption of domestic objects in communist and post-communist Romania.Carlo A. Cubero (carlo.cubero@gmail.com) is associate professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia. His research focuses on ethnographic filmmaking methodology, migration, transnationalism and post-colonial identities.Brigitte Glaser (Brigitte.Glaser@phil.uni-goettingen.de) is professor of English literature and cultural studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany. She has published two monographs, one on 18th-century fiction and the other on 17th-century autobiographical writing. During the last few years her research focus and publications have been on colonial and postcolonial literature as well as transnational writing. A co-edited volume of essays The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism appeared in 2010.Remo Gramigna (gramigna@ut.ee) is a doctoral student in semiotics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He gained a Master's degree in science of communication at Rome's Sapienza University with a dissertation entitled Culture Jamming: Phenomenology of Creative Destruction (2006). He completed a second Master's degree in semiotics at the University of Tartu with a thesis entitled Augustine on Lying: A Semiotic Analysis (2011). His main research area is the semiotics of lying and deception.Visa Immonen (visa.immonen@helsinki.fi) is a fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, and adjunct professor of archaeology at the University of Turku, Finland. He is an archaeologist specialising in the Middle Ages and the Modern period. Meripeni Ngully (meripeni55@gmail.com) is associate professor at the Department of History, Dimapur Government College, India. She is a doctoral candida...

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confidence: 90%

Things in Culture, Culture in Things

Kannike¹,

Laviolette²

2013

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“…While the exact nature of this and the other four deposits is not entirely clear, the tradition of placing coins in the foundations of buildings is well known and archaeologically attested (e.g. Hukantaival, 2006: 60-62;Korhonen, 2009: 264-267;Merrifield, 1987: 49; see also below), and other types of 'foundation deposits' have also been identified in Tornio including 'offerings' of iron, ceramics, and even bear claws (Herva, 2010;Herva and Ylimaunu, 2009;Nurmi, 2011: 146-151).…”

Section: Coins and Contexts: A Closer Look At Coin Finds From Torniomentioning

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“…Elements of broadly animistic-shamanistic concepts of and relationships with the world persisted in the north centuries after the region had become nominally Christianized. They persisted especially in rural culture well into modern times, but were arguably of significance at least in early modern Tornio and other new towns that the Crown of Sweden founded in the previously non-urban northern parts of the kingdom in the seventeenth century (Herva, 2010;Herva and Salmi, 2010;Herva and Ylimaunu, 2009). Coins could have been imbued with meaning and special powers for various reasons.…”

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Engaging with money in a northern periphery of early modern Europe

Herva

Nurmi

Symonds

2012

Journal of Social Archaeology

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While contextual and interpretive approaches to money have recently emerged in archaeology, coins have attracted little serious attention in the post-medieval archaeology of the western world. The relative neglect of coins as archaeological finds probably derives from an (implicit) assumption that the function and meaning of coins is readily apparent. A close study of coin finds, however, combined with various sources of contextual data, can provide new views on how people understood and engaged with coinage even in the comparatively recent past, as this article seeks to illustrate by considering money and coin finds from a northern periphery of early modern Sweden. Economic factors are important for appreciating the significance of coinage and the patterning of the studied coin finds, but this article proposes that non-monetary uses of coins were more important to the local understanding of money than has previously been recognized.

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“…In fact, the house is one of the cornerstones of family life in rural Europe, the central site for socialization and the spread and naturalization of customs and values through the creation of a habitus (Bourdieu 1998). The built environment plays a role in structuring social reality and cultural identities (Hillier and Hanson 1984), while functioning as the fundamental symbolic reference and cultural repository for the identities, feelings and memories of its inhabitants (Herva 2010;Kus 1997;Rapoport 1990). Therefore, the archaeological analysis of domesticity can enable us to explore cultural change in depth.…”

Section: Theoretical Approach: From Ethnoarchaeology To Contemporary mentioning

confidence: 99%

Casas y cambio cultural: metodología interdisciplinar para el estudio del espacio construido en la España rural contemporánea

Álvarez

González

2019

Arqueol. Arquitect.

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Este trabajo presenta una propuesta metodológica para el estudio interdisciplinar de las transformaciones recientes de la arquitectura doméstica en zonas rurales del estado español. Las casas constituyen un repositorio clave en las biografías y la memoria cultural de las comunidades que habitan estos territorios, funcionando como dispositivos destacados en la configuración de las identidades personales, familiares y comunitarias. Por ello, son un elemento adecuado para estudiar arqueológicamente las transformaciones sociales y productivas que atraviesan el medio rural del estado español. De hecho, el espacio construido es uno de los dispositivos más reconocibles en la articulación de estos procesos de cambio en la cotidianeidad de las comunidades rurales, donde la materialidad de los espacios domésticos juega un papel clave. La investigación aborda dos casos de estudio localizados en Maragatería (León) y Somiedu (Asturias), en el Noroeste ibérico. La reflexión teórica-metodológica sobre nuestros estudios arqueológicos, etnográficos y patrimoniales en marcha, junto a la consideración de investigaciones semejantes desarrolladas recientemente en otras zonas rurales del estado español e internacionalmente, sirven de eje conductor a este trabajo.

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Buildings as persons: relationality and the life of buildings in a northern periphery of early modern Sweden

Cited by 24 publications

References 17 publications

Things in Culture, Culture in Things

Things in Culture, Culture in Things

Engaging with money in a northern periphery of early modern Europe

Casas y cambio cultural: metodología interdisciplinar para el estudio del espacio construido en la España rural contemporánea

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