Objects in the archives : modern material culture and heritage in the North /

"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 I...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Other Authors:	Kristján Mímisson (Editor), Davíð Ólafsson (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Subjects:	Archival materials > Iceland. Material culture > Iceland. Cultural property > Iceland. Archives > Iceland. Iceland > Social life and customs > Sources. Culture matérielle > Islande. Patrimoine culturel immatériel > Islande. Archives > Islande. Documents d'archives > Islande. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

What Are Our Favourite Things and Why / Kristján Mímisson and Davíð Ólafsson
Probate Records and Private Property in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Iceland / Már Jónsson
Wool Socks, Silk Scarfs, Needles, and Wood Saws : Material Culture on the Margins of Icelandic Society / Anna Heiða Baldursdóttir
Lending and Borrowing of Books and Manuscripts : Sharing Economy and the Material Culture of Text in Nineteenth Century Iceland / Davíð Ólafsson
The Speech of Spindle Whorls : Words on Things and Things in Words / Gavin Lucas
The Affect of Relating : On the Various Manifestations of Things / Kristján Mímisson
And Old Manuscript, Leather Shoes, and a Walking Stick : The Role of Material Agency in Literary Criticism / Andri M. Kristjánsson
In Pursuit of Modernity? On Collecting and Aesthetics in Iceland / Anna Lísa Rúnarsdóttir
The Icelandic Turf House as Skin : Archive, Anarchy, Heritage / Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson and Arnar Árnason
The 'Archive' : Things to Consider / Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
Buried Archives : The Multiple Curators of Waste / Ágústa Edwald Maxwell
In the Nude, Without Archive : Recollecting Traces of Holmegaard / Tim Flohr Sørensen and Þóra Pétursdóttir
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 / Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon.