Anna Wessman – författare

The fiery transformation of the dead is replete in our popular culture and Western modernity's death ways, and yet it is increasingly evident how little this disposal method is understood by archaeologists and students of cognate disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In this regard, the archaeological study of cremation has much to offer. Cremation is a fascinating and widespread theme and entry-point in the exploration of the variability of mortuary practices among past societies. Seeking to challenge simplistic narratives of cremation in the past and present, the studies in this volume seek to confront and explore the challenges of interpreting the variability of cremation by contending with complex networks of modern allusions and imaginings of cremations past and present and ongoing debates regarding how we identify and interpret cremation in the archaeological record. Using a series of original case studies, the book investigates the archaeological traces of cremation in a varied selection of prehistoric and historic contexts from the Mesolithic to the present in order to explore cremation from a practice-oriented and historically situated perspective.

Här de olika föredragen som beskriver artiklarna: • Renate Martinussen: Egge i Nord- Trøndelag – ett høvdingesete med fjerne forbindelser • Per Ramqvist: Norrländska samspel under järnåldern • Miika Kumpulainen, • Jussi-Pekka Taavitsainen, Janne Vilkuna: From Wilderness to Society. The lost culture of late Iron Age and Medevial Times in Central Finland • Ulla Oscarsson: De gåtfulla Överhogdalsbonaderna • Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide: Kristningen av Trøndelag – ikke uten motstand? • Anna Wessman: Levänluhta: En österbottnisk våtmark med begravningar från yngre järnålder • Amanda Jönsson: Begravning och rituell tradition i Norrlands inland – exemplet Fotingen • Marte Mokkelbost: De ble begravd sittende. Ett unikt gravfelt i Sandvika ved Nord-Trøndelags kyst • Ola George: Rika gravfynd från folkvandringstiden längs Ångermanälvens älvdal • Jari-Matti Kuusela: The long road – Merovingian Period social elite of Ostrobothnia viewed as a result of a long-term social evolution • Thyra Solem: Kulturlandskap i Trøndelag skapt av fortidig jernvinne • Jan-Erik Wallin, Kjell-Åke Aronsson: Vegetationsförändringar i Härjedalens och Jämtlands fjälltrakter och skogsbygder under vikingatid och medeltid