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The edited volume After Discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics was recently published in the series Routledge Archaeologies of the Contemporary World. Editors are Bjørnar Olsen, Caitlin DeSilvey, Mats Burström and Þóra Pétursdóttir and the book features contributions by scholars who were part of the research project After Discourse: Things, Archaeology, and Heritage in the 21st Century at Centre for Advanced Study …
Saphinaz Amal Naguib has published an article in the open access journal CLARA – Classical Art and Archaeology entitled Exploring Biographies. Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes at the Museum of Cultural History (MCH), University of Oslo: “Small funerary statuettes shaped as mummiform figurines are among the most common ancient Egyptian artefacts to be found in museums of cultural history worldwide. The …
In dominant modern conceptions things often become little but things-for-us, reduced to resources or what Heidegger termed Bestand. Even as heritage, monuments and things mostly receive their value from being useful to us; as cultural, scientific or economic resources, serving as vehicles for identity and securing human well-being. This workshop will explore possible alternatives to this understanding. That is, to …