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Public Archaeology, 2008
... Despite these theoretical efforts, and the rather flexible views on the concept of authentici... more ... Despite these theoretical efforts, and the rather flexible views on the concept of authenticity expressed in ... of authenticity constantly construct the past and its authen ticity within theframework of a ... as the wires/fences in front of the carvings, were leading the public around the ...
Arkeologen Nyhetsbrev Fran Institutionen For Arkeologi Goteborgs Universitet, 1998
Arkeologen: nyhetsbrev från Institutionen för arkeologi, Göteborgs universitet, 1996
SwePub titelinformation: Morlanda 492 : en bohuslänsk boplats från Hensbackaoch Trattbägartid.
Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 2018
This text presents the results of a contemporary archaeological investigation of an important Sw... more This text presents the results of a contemporary archaeological
investigation of an important Swedish Cold War installation,
Command Centre Bjorn. This centre was connected to the Air
Force Attack Squadron and together with the coastal artillery
and the navy it constituted a crucial part of the Swedish defence
efforts during the Cold War period. The text also discusses questions
concerning heritage processes, and it stresses that a contemporary
archaeology approach can contribute with new insights
into the Cold War and its heritage in Sweden, as well as canalize
and offer guidance to the huge public interest in the material
remains from this period in Sweden.
Current Swedish Archaeology
Journal of Social Archaeology
Santa Cruz de los Pinos is a small town like most others in the Cuban countryside. But half a cen... more Santa Cruz de los Pinos is a small town like most others in the Cuban countryside. But half a century ago it was the epicenter of the 1962 Missile Crisis. During that time it served as a Soviet base for middlerange nuclear missiles, and the US air reconnaissance photos of it were spread through media all around the world. The crisis was solved through negotiations without Cuban involvement, and as a result of this neglect the Missile Crisis has been an under-communicated part of history in Cuba. A Swedish-Cuban research project has now investigated what kinds of memories of the crisis remain today at the former missile base -in the ground as well as in people's minds. Digging in the ground has proved to be an effective way to start a remembering process and to help disarm a politically loaded history and uncover stories other than those dominating 'big history'.
Public Archaeology
This article presents a critical and ethnographically directed discussion and comparison of how t... more This article presents a critical and ethnographically directed discussion and comparison of how the World Heritage listed rock carvings at Tanum, Sweden and Val Camonica, Italy are managed and made accessible to the public. The article focuses on how the Swedish and Italian heritage management cultures view the rock carvings as an authentic (i.e. genuine) phenomenon fi rmly, and solely, belonging to the past and how this contemporary embedded and constructed narrative leads to specifi c ways of managing, constructing, organizing, presenting, and staging these places for the public. The article stresses that even if the rock carvings were produced in the past, their authenticity is also a product of their role in contemporary negotiations of interpretive supremacy, control, and power between the culture of heritage management and the public. An ethnographical approach, and ethnographical methods, are used. This approach has implications for archaeology and its public relations; in the light of it, activities and phenomena that seem to be completely normal are revealed as examples of the specifi c culture of contemporary archaeology and heritage management. It is stressed that this culture and its rituals need to be further examined from an ethnographic point of departure.
Current Swedish Archaeology
The aim of this paper is to present a pedagogical development project which focuses upon student ... more The aim of this paper is to present a pedagogical development project which focuses upon student integrating methods for learning archaeology in tertiary education. The project was initiated by the teachers of the department because of the gap experienced between academic reflexivity and archaeological practice during our field courses. The students seemed to suffer from cognitive overload when they suddenly found themselves in the field so in order to bridge the gap we wanted to develop methods which would facilitate the students' verbalisation of their field experience and observations, and which would improve communicating about it during field work. The results are that students become more active when the opportunity to develop a voice starts early in their education and they become more visible as actors in their education. A general improvement in the learning environment is noticed, too. We position this project, its results and potentials in a progressively emergent international discourse on pedagogy in tertiary education in archaeology.
Current Swedish Archaeology
This paper takes its point of departure in a critical and ethnographically directed discussion of... more This paper takes its point of departure in a critical and ethnographically directed discussion of how Swedish heritage management -in practiceconstructs, organises and presents the past (i.e., the cultural heritage) to the public at the rock-carvings in Tanum. This ethnographical approach is helpful when trying to move beyond the structures -and specific ways of viewing the world -that are a consequence of our own archaeological socialisation. Suddenly activities that, with an archaeological eye, seem to be completely normal, present themselves instead as peculiar examples of the culture of contemporary archaeology/heritage management. In this paper we present examples -derived from both the past and present -of how this specific culture approach handles and stages the rock-carvings in Tanum. It is stressed that, for various reasons and not least ethical and democratic ones, this culture and its rituals need to be examined even further from an ethnographical point of view.
Current Swedish Archaeology
Public Archaeology, 2008
... Despite these theoretical efforts, and the rather flexible views on the concept of authentici... more ... Despite these theoretical efforts, and the rather flexible views on the concept of authenticity expressed in ... of authenticity constantly construct the past and its authen ticity within theframework of a ... as the wires/fences in front of the carvings, were leading the public around the ...
Arkeologen Nyhetsbrev Fran Institutionen For Arkeologi Goteborgs Universitet, 1998
Arkeologen: nyhetsbrev från Institutionen för arkeologi, Göteborgs universitet, 1996
SwePub titelinformation: Morlanda 492 : en bohuslänsk boplats från Hensbackaoch Trattbägartid.
Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 2018
This text presents the results of a contemporary archaeological investigation of an important Sw... more This text presents the results of a contemporary archaeological
investigation of an important Swedish Cold War installation,
Command Centre Bjorn. This centre was connected to the Air
Force Attack Squadron and together with the coastal artillery
and the navy it constituted a crucial part of the Swedish defence
efforts during the Cold War period. The text also discusses questions
concerning heritage processes, and it stresses that a contemporary
archaeology approach can contribute with new insights
into the Cold War and its heritage in Sweden, as well as canalize
and offer guidance to the huge public interest in the material
remains from this period in Sweden.
Current Swedish Archaeology
Journal of Social Archaeology
Santa Cruz de los Pinos is a small town like most others in the Cuban countryside. But half a cen... more Santa Cruz de los Pinos is a small town like most others in the Cuban countryside. But half a century ago it was the epicenter of the 1962 Missile Crisis. During that time it served as a Soviet base for middlerange nuclear missiles, and the US air reconnaissance photos of it were spread through media all around the world. The crisis was solved through negotiations without Cuban involvement, and as a result of this neglect the Missile Crisis has been an under-communicated part of history in Cuba. A Swedish-Cuban research project has now investigated what kinds of memories of the crisis remain today at the former missile base -in the ground as well as in people's minds. Digging in the ground has proved to be an effective way to start a remembering process and to help disarm a politically loaded history and uncover stories other than those dominating 'big history'.
Public Archaeology
This article presents a critical and ethnographically directed discussion and comparison of how t... more This article presents a critical and ethnographically directed discussion and comparison of how the World Heritage listed rock carvings at Tanum, Sweden and Val Camonica, Italy are managed and made accessible to the public. The article focuses on how the Swedish and Italian heritage management cultures view the rock carvings as an authentic (i.e. genuine) phenomenon fi rmly, and solely, belonging to the past and how this contemporary embedded and constructed narrative leads to specifi c ways of managing, constructing, organizing, presenting, and staging these places for the public. The article stresses that even if the rock carvings were produced in the past, their authenticity is also a product of their role in contemporary negotiations of interpretive supremacy, control, and power between the culture of heritage management and the public. An ethnographical approach, and ethnographical methods, are used. This approach has implications for archaeology and its public relations; in the light of it, activities and phenomena that seem to be completely normal are revealed as examples of the specifi c culture of contemporary archaeology and heritage management. It is stressed that this culture and its rituals need to be further examined from an ethnographic point of departure.
Current Swedish Archaeology
The aim of this paper is to present a pedagogical development project which focuses upon student ... more The aim of this paper is to present a pedagogical development project which focuses upon student integrating methods for learning archaeology in tertiary education. The project was initiated by the teachers of the department because of the gap experienced between academic reflexivity and archaeological practice during our field courses. The students seemed to suffer from cognitive overload when they suddenly found themselves in the field so in order to bridge the gap we wanted to develop methods which would facilitate the students' verbalisation of their field experience and observations, and which would improve communicating about it during field work. The results are that students become more active when the opportunity to develop a voice starts early in their education and they become more visible as actors in their education. A general improvement in the learning environment is noticed, too. We position this project, its results and potentials in a progressively emergent international discourse on pedagogy in tertiary education in archaeology.
Current Swedish Archaeology
This paper takes its point of departure in a critical and ethnographically directed discussion of... more This paper takes its point of departure in a critical and ethnographically directed discussion of how Swedish heritage management -in practiceconstructs, organises and presents the past (i.e., the cultural heritage) to the public at the rock-carvings in Tanum. This ethnographical approach is helpful when trying to move beyond the structures -and specific ways of viewing the world -that are a consequence of our own archaeological socialisation. Suddenly activities that, with an archaeological eye, seem to be completely normal, present themselves instead as peculiar examples of the culture of contemporary archaeology/heritage management. In this paper we present examples -derived from both the past and present -of how this specific culture approach handles and stages the rock-carvings in Tanum. It is stressed that, for various reasons and not least ethical and democratic ones, this culture and its rituals need to be examined even further from an ethnographical point of view.
Current Swedish Archaeology