Objects in the Archives

Modern Material Culture and Heritage in the North

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Situated on an intersection between Material Culture Studies, History and Museum and Archival Studies, this book investigates the material world of the Icelandic population in the late Modern Era.Utilizing the great wealth of inventories of household goods stored at The National Archives of Iceland in conjunction with material objects, the book highlights new paths and insights into understanding people’s possessions and material relations, and the entwined biographies of people and things. It shows how people shaped their own lives by means of things and how these material relations are “archived” and represented in heritage and museum spaces. The book is divided into two parts that explore how material culture contributes to history, the relationship between things and text, and the practice of collecting things and address the process of assembly, or how things gather. Micro and macro methods of investigation tease out new approaches to debates around human–thing relationships, acknowledging ideas about material agency and social significance and that the human–material relation is reciprocal.This volume will appeal to students and researchers within the field of archaeology, material culture studies, museum studies, heritage, and the history of material culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-02-06
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032395586

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Kristján Mímisson is an archaeologist and editorial curator at the National Museum of Iceland.Davið Ólafsson is a historian and associate professor at the University of Iceland.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: What Are Our Favourite Things and Why? Part 1 Objects of Expression: Expressing Objects 2. Probate Records and Private Property in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Iceland 3. Wool Socks, Silk Scarfs, Needles and Wood Saws: Material Culture on the Margins of Icelandic Society 4.Social Circularity of Books and Manuscripts: Sharing Economy and the Material Culture of Text in Nineteenth-Century Iceland 5. The Speech of Spindle Whorls: Words on Things and Things in Words 6. The Affect of Relating: The Divergent Manifestations of Things 7. An Old Manuscript, Leather Shoes, and a Cane: The Role of Material Agency in Literary Criticism Part 2 Objects of Gathering: Gathering Objects 8. In Pursuit of Modernity? On Collecting and Aesthetics in Iceland 9. The Icelandic Turf House as Skin: Archive, Anarchy, and Heritage 10. The ‘Archive’: Things to Consider 11. Buried Archives: The Multiple Curators of Waste 12. In the Nude, without Archive: Recollecting Traces of Holmegaard Glassworks 13. Icelandic Cake Fight: History of an Immigrant Recipe 14. Collecting Bald Cypress Knees: An Exercise in Symbiotic Interaction 15. Epilogue: Things on a Wall: Potential History