English revision: Kristin Bornholdt Collins.
From grave-goods as "personal possessions" to debates about "who owns the past?", concepts of ownership pervade archaeology. This anthology makes the case that, although the language of owning is so widespread that it passes unquestioned, it causes us to make fundamental assumptions about what humans and objects are and how they interact. Papers explore the breadth of ownership in archaeological interpretations, from a tight sense of conferring certain rights and responsibilities, to a mechanism by which identity and values are transferred between persons and objects, to a broader sense of belonging to a group, period, or place. Topics range from Iron Age tattooing to Viking social valuables, from Roman taste to Anglo-Saxon grave robbery, and from Bronze Age rock art to modern folk rituals
Author(s): Alison Klevnäs, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson (eds.)
Series: Stockholm Studies in Archaeology, 62
Publisher: Stockholm University
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: VIII+230
Preface / Alison Klevnäs & Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson vii
Introduction: the nature of belongings / Alison Klevnäs 1
Things of quality: possessions and animated objects in the Scandinavian Viking Age / Nanouschka Myrberg Burström 23
The skin I live in. The materiality of body imagery / Fredrik Fahlander 49
To own and be owned: the warriors of Birka’s garrison / Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson 73
The propriety of decorative luxury possessions. Reflections on the occurrence of kalathiskos dancers and pyrrhic dancers in Roman visual culture / Julia Habetzeder 93
Hijacked by the Bronze Age discourse? A discussion of rock art and ownership / Per Nilsson 109
Capturing images: knowledge, ownership and the materiality of cave art / Magnus Ljunge 133
Give and take: grave goods and grave robbery in the early middle ages / Alison Klevnäs 157
Possession through deposition: the 'ownership' of coins in contemporary British coin-trees / Ceri Houlbrook 189
Possession, property or ownership? / Chris Gosden 215
About the authors 222
