Narratives of inequality. Towards an archaeology of structural violence in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
Ben Raffield,
Christina Fredengren,
Anna Kjellström
Abstract:To date, traditional narratives of the Late Iron Age have focused almost exclusively on discussions of the elite. These were the martial rulers and major landholders who occupied the upper strata of Scandinavian society. The lives of lower-status population groups, including enslaved and other ‘unfree’ or dependent peoples such as landless farmers, have long been marginalized in archaeological discourse. We have little knowledge of the ways in which the lifeways of subaltern peoples were shaped by the construc… Show more
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