Solid material used as ballast in sailing ships has been re-used in many various ways, the re-use as ballast being the most obvious. Another re-use is as building material. A prominent example of where ballast stones have been utilized in this way is Savannah, Georgia, in the southeast of the United States. Savannah was established as a British settlement in …
Little Norway: a ballast island – by Mats Burström
One of the sites in the ongoing study of ballast is the small island Little Norway (Sw. Lilla Norge) in the river Ångermanälven in the northern part of Sweden. The island got its somewhat peculiar name from the many Norwegian ships that dumped their ballast at a certain point in the river. During the second half of the 19th century …
Abstracts, Primitive Tider no. 18
Ingar Figenschau – War Remains as Cultural Heritage: Rescue operation or awkward embrace? Norddalen in Troms County, Norway, is today a relatively secluded valley, but within grim and dark winter months in 1944-1945 war crimes took place under the direction of Nazi ideology and about 150 Russian prisoners of war lost their lives under the hand of the Third Reich. …
We’re here for a good time (not a long time) – by Elin Andreassen
Abstract from a project presentation by Elin Andreassen. How do you act when you realize that your favorite café might disappear? In handling the qualities that is already there, urban planning tends to give priority to architectonic qualities. Things that are already there – in action – the institutions with all their people, know-how’s and their traditional and present-day functions …
History Without Humans: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Theory and Method – by Tim LeCain
Photo: Fastily at en.wikipedia Recent developments in neo-materialist thinking—itself deeply influenced by new ideas stemming from neuroscience, science and technology studies, theories of extended and embodied cognition, among others—have begun to suggest that human culture, at least in some key aspects, must be understood as emerging from and with the material environment around us, not as standing in opposition to …
Ballast: Creating Cultural Connections Across Time and Space – by Mats Burström
Along the shores in Newfoundland there is an abundance of flint to be found although this material does not occur naturally in the area. The reason for the presence of flint is that it was used as ballast by sailing vessels in the transatlantic migratory fishery that started in the beginning of the sixteenth century and lasted for about four …
Soviet heritage in the Russian North: Observations from Russian Teriberka – by Svetlana Vingogradova
According to the results of previous fieldwork from 2015, the village Teriberka was chosen as one of the main objects of enquiry of a Russian case study. It is a remote peripheral rural settlement on the Barents Sea coast with a population of 930 people, situated at the distance of 127 km to the northeast from Murmansk. Teriberka is one …
Memory and its materiality: the crafting of heritage – by Saphinaz-Amal Naguib
Abstract of paper presented in Prague at the 1st Object Matters-workshop, 10-13 December, 2015. Memory and its materiality is about the transformation of fragments of material culture, unpretentious things, into heritage. Materiality does not merely refer to the material properties of things, their type, shape, measurements, texture and style. It also points to their relations to people and to what …
Going for a walk: another way of doing and experiencing archaeology – by Stein Farstadvoll
Imagine yourself walking along an old forest trail on a sunny summer evening in eastern Norway. After a while, you notice the trail is slowly fading away into the undergrowth. Suddenly you are confronted by the landscape that lies beyond well-trodden paths. To continue walking you have to follow something other than the trail, such as ridges, moraines, animal trails, …
They never left – by Ingar Figenschau
Presentation of Ph.D. project on war remains in Norddalen, Troms County. This project focuses on WW2 war remains in Norddalen, today a place relatively secluded and overgrown, but once a place of gruesome events and war crimes under the direction of Nazi ideology. From being a remote valley, Norddalen became within the short winter months in 1944-1945 a place where …
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