A5058473935- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Canadian Identity and History
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Travel Writing and Literature
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Education Systems and Policy
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
- Historical Studies of British Isles
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Historical and Environmental Studies
- African history and culture studies
- Marine and environmental studies
University of Iceland
2021-2024
University of Aberdeen
2012-2017
The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some last settled places on earth, with humans reaching Faroes and Iceland in late Iron Age Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation soil erosion have presented this story island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological paleoenvironmental research combined environmental history, humanities, bioscience is providing a more complex understanding long-term human ecodynamics these...
This article reviews and rethinks the study of cultural landscapes in context western Canadian settlement history. The historiography scholarship on colonial period, across a broad array disciplines, follows themes central to continuity change settler societies, including assimilation, revivalism transnationalism. Influenced by historical conditions particular region, namely, creation migrant block settlements legacy multiculturalism, research has had longstanding commitment an ethnic...
The concept of ethnicity is a prevailing explanatory device in studies colonial architecture. This paper argues for decentring buildings research through treating as ‘assemblages’ both material and social ‘things’. Drawing on case study from the late 19th-century settler landscape Manitoba, Canada, we illustrate how architecture – conceived an ‘assemblage’ can shed light events, processes consequences homesteading new land. Through determining factor building projects, role indicator...
SUMMARYThe paper looks at changes in the composition of archaeological assemblages from 19th-century Iceland. It contextualises an increase ceramics with other domestic materials by combining data evidence probate inventories. The study confirms that there was a marked change materiality Iceland middle 19th century and suggests further research into origins effects this needs to focus on how things depend each their relationship altered routines household members.
Anthropological and archaeological studies of the North Atlantic increasingly contribute to debates around formation colonial World. Despite contemporary myths Iceland as a remote wilderness, island society was integrated into interregional economies from its ninth-century settlement onward. Here we focus on mapping 19 th -century Icelanders’ navigation networks they altered their relative position in Atlantic’s uneven social geographies emerged Danish rule. We leverage diverse archives our...
This paper takes as its starting point two landscapes of waste and connects them through an account the intensification production consumption textiles in modernising Iceland. Archaeological assemblages historical resources are used to illustrate disposal clothing throughout 19th century, which is juxtaposed with archaeological studies into sheep rearing, grazing pressures wool production. The argues that economic notion capitalist system from it originates create waste. It stipulates many...
Menningararfur a Islandi: gagnrýni og greining is book with an agenda. Its authors offer timely critique of heritage construction in Iceland and clearly demonstrate how discourse performanc...