During the past couple of decades both research projects and rescue excavations have contributed considerably to our understanding of the early Older Stone Age pioneer settlement along the entire Norwegian coast. However, understanding of the pioneers along the coast between northern Nordland and Finnmark counties is still rather limited. Excavations have largely taken place on sites within the ...

Who read what in the late nineteenth century Swedish society? What books were available in the bookshops and the libraries, and what books were the most popular? This study aims to offer preliminary answers to questions like these, based on sales’ and borrowers’ ledgers from three of the most common types of literary institutions of the time; a parish library, a bookshop, and a commercial lending ...

Since the concept of sustainability (or sustainable development) became famous through its adoption in the UN’s report, ‘Our Common Future’ in 1987, it has travelled widely to become a global and omnipresent key concept also in the field of heritage. The inclusion into this field was facilitated by the understanding of heritage as resource, which has become the norm within cultural heritage management ...

This article examines how things contribute to an expanded and different understanding of contexts that are usually reserved for historical inquiry. To show this, the article illustrates how archaeological investigations of World War II prison camps connected to the German defensive Lyngen Line in northern Norway have uncovered aspects that are absent or unavailable in historical sources. Accordingly, ...

Forholdet mellom konge og kyrkje – mellom kongemakt og kyrkjemakt – står sentralt i europeisk historie mellomalderen igjennom, og i nord får me eit innhaldsrikt døme på ulike sider ved dette forholdet gjennom striden om kallsretten til Tromsø-kyrkja på 1480-talet. Erkebiskop står mot konge, norske interesser står mot danske, og partane må til slutt trekkje inn paven i Roma for å få ei avgjerd. På ...

What did the protestant reformations look like in the very north of Europe? How did the cultural, political and economic consequences of the religious change influence the relationship between Scandinavia, the British Isles and continental Europe? Various questions related to these main themes were the topics for discussions at the conference “Northern Reformations” in Tromsø, Norway, September ...

Hvert år på den tiden når skreien vender tilbake til Lofoten og lofotfisket starter opp igjen, feires det gudstjeneste i Stamsund under overskriften «kystmesse». Første gang denne gudstjenesten ble holdt var under svært spesielt omstendigheter. Det var lite fisk å finne og folket langs kysten opplevde krise. Den første gudstjenesten var en stor suksess og det var stort oppmøte. Bare ved å analysere ...

This is a study of the diversity of religions found among Japanese-Brazilians living in the city of Quatro Bocas, in the municipality of Tomé-Açu, in the State of Pará, in the north of Brazil. It examines relations between religions and ethnicities. I conducted fieldwork, first in Quatro Bocas between September and October 2017, and then in the city of São Paulo in December 2018. I interviewed ...

This article addresses emergent religious formations at protest scenes in the broader context of indigenous organization and identity-building. Our central example is the Standing Rock protest in North Dakota, 2016–2017, a local encampment-based event that quickly expanded into an international indigenous peoples’ movement. We argue that religion was a key register in the camps, during direct ...