Anders Högberg – författare

Mångfald är ett komplext, omstritt och luddigt begrepp. Det får skiftande mening i olika sammanhang: positivt laddat avger det en signal om att värna mänskliga rättigheter, demokrati och vardagsberikande. I negativ mening kommer ofta särbehandling, fördomar och diskriminering till ytan. I Mångfaldsfrågor i kulturmiljövården granskar arkeologen Anders Högberg hur kulturmiljövården i Sverige har hanterat det komplexa mångfaldsarbetet under tio år. Kulturmiljövården är med museerna en av de viktigaste aktörerna i samhället som iscensätter miljöer och aktiviteter där mångfald kommer till uttryck. Men i just det offentliga rummet politiken, samhällsdiskussionen och bland myndigheterna blandas begreppet mångfald ständigt samman med utanförskap, segregation och invandring. Högberg visar hur svårt det är att hantera nyanserade innehåll trots att den berikar och fördjupar uttrycken. Och hur lätt det är att blanda in åtskiljande, exkluderande grepp som kulturrelativism och särbehandling. Om författaren: Anders Högberg är verksam vid Linnéuniversitetet. Hans forskning spänner över ett brett fält med allt ifrån studier om den moderna människans tidiga förhistoria och utveckling till kulturarvs- och kulturmiljöfrågor i vår samtid och framtid. Högberg har arbetat som fältarkeolog vid många stora arkeologiska utgrävningar. Under 2013 arbetar han framförallt i två projekt, dels ett om den tidigmoderna människans kognitiva utveckling för cirka 85 000 år sedan i dagens Sydafrika, dels i en studie av minnes- och kulturarvsaspekter av framtida långtidsförvaring av kärnbränsle.

Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural heritage and the future.Drawing on case studies from around the world, the contributing authors insist that cultural heritage and the future are intimately linked and that the development of futures thinking should be a priority for academics, students and those working in the wider professional heritage sector. Until recently, the future has never attracted substantial research and debate within heritage studies and heritage management, and this book addresses this gap by offering a balance of theoretical and empirical content that will stimulate multidisciplinary debate in the burgeoning field of critical heritage studies.Cultural Heritage and the Future questions the role of heritage in future making and will be of great relevance to academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, archaeology, anthropology, architecture, conservation studies, sociology, history and geography. Those working in the heritage professions will also find much to interest them within the pages of this book.

Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural heritage and the future.Drawing on case studies from around the world, the contributing authors insist that cultural heritage and the future are intimately linked and that the development of futures thinking should be a priority for academics, students and those working in the wider professional heritage sector. Until recently, the future has never attracted substantial research and debate within heritage studies and heritage management, and this book addresses this gap by offering a balance of theoretical and empirical content that will stimulate multidisciplinary debate in the burgeoning field of critical heritage studies.Cultural Heritage and the Future questions the role of heritage in future making and will be of great relevance to academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, archaeology, anthropology, architecture, conservation studies, sociology, history and geography. Those working in the heritage professions will also find much to interest them within the pages of this book.

In Scandinavia as elsewhere, cryptocrystalline rocks such as flint were an integral part of peoples' lives during prehistory. Knowledge about flint, its properties, its uses, and its many names, was no doubt transmitted through the generations as part of everyday life. As archaeologists, we are interested in how prehistoric people dealt with flint and what they might have seen as the strengths and the weaknesses of the various kinds of flint available. But in order to answer such questions it is necessary that we are able to talk to each other about flint in an informed and informative manner.Scandinavian Flint proposes a classification into 17 types for use by archaeologists. Flint types are described and evaluated in terms of knappability, limitations posed by nodule size, and prehistoric availability, rather than in terms of morphogenesis or chemical composition. Flint formation, geographic distribution of flint sources in Scandinavia, provenience studies, and patination are discussed in detail.Scandinavian Flint is a useful guide for archaeologists working with flint.