Objects in the archives modern material culture and heritage in the North / edited by Kristja�n Mi�misson and Davi©ʻ O�lafsson.
| Other author | Kristja�n Mi�misson. |
| Other author | Davi�©ʻ O�lafsson. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Modern material culture and heritage in the North |
| Contents | What Are Our Favourite Things and Why / Kristja�n Mi�misson and Davi�©ʻ O�lafsson -- Probate Records and Private Property in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Iceland / Ma�r Jo�nsson -- Wool Socks, Silk Scarfs, Needles, and Wood Saws : Material Culture on the Margins of Icelandic Society / Anna Hei©ʻa Baldursdo�ttir -- Lending and Borrowing of Books and Manuscripts : Sharing Economy and the Material Culture of Text in Nineteenth Century Iceland / Davi�©ʻ O�lafsson -- The Speech of Spindle Whorls : Words on Things and Things in Words / Gavin Lucas -- The Affect of Relating : On the Various Manifestations of Things / Kristja�n Mi�misson -- And Old Manuscript, Leather Shoes, and a Walking Stick : The Role of Material Agency in Literary Criticism / Andri M. Kristja�nsson -- In Pursuit of Modernity? On Collecting and Aesthetics in Iceland / Anna Li�sa Ru�narsdo�ttir -- The Icelandic Turf House as Skin : Archive, Anarchy, Heritage / Sigurjo�n Baldur Hafsteinsson and Arnar A�rnason -- The 'Archive' : Things to Consider / Sigur©ʻur Gylfi Magnu�sson -- Buried Archives : The Multiple Curators of Waste / A�gu�sta Edwald Maxwell -- In the Nude, Without Archive : Recollecting Traces of Holmegaard / Tim Flohr S©ırensen and ©žo�ra Pe�tursdo�ttir -- Icelandic Cake Fight : History of an Immigrant Recipe / Laurie K. Bertram -- Collecting Bald Cypress Knees : An Exercise in Symbiotic Interaction / Ewa Domanska -- Things on a Wall : Potential History / Sigur©ʻur Gylfi Magnu�sson. |
| Abstract | "Situated on an intersection between Material Culture Studies, History and Museum and Archival Studies, this book investigates the material world of the Icelandic population in the late Modern Era. Utilizing the great wealth of inventories of household goods stored at The National Archives of Iceland in conjunction with material objects, the book highlights new paths and insights into understanding people's possessions and material relations, and the entwined biographies of people and things. It shows how people shaped their own lives by means of things, and how these material relations are "archived" and represented in heritage and museum spaces. The book is divided into two parts that explore how material culture contributes to history, the relationship between things and text, the practice of collecting things and address the process of assembly, or how things gather. Micro and macro methods of investigation tease out new approaches to debates around human-thing relationships, acknowledging ideas about material agency and social significance and that the human-material relation is reciprocal. This volume will appeal to students and researchers within the field of archaeology, material culture studies, museum studies, heritage and the history of material culture"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "This book presents the final outcome of a multidisciplinary research project carried out at the University of Iceland, titled My Favourite Things: Material Culture Archives, Cultural Heritage and Meaning"--Acknowledgements. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Objects in the archives London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025 9781032395586 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024027315 |
| ISBN | 9781040184677 ebook |
| ISBN | 9781003350293 (ebk) |
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| ISBN | (pbk) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |