Books by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
Part 1: A Globalised Bronze Age -theoretical reflections on the concept of bronzization Chapter 1... more Part 1: A Globalised Bronze Age -theoretical reflections on the concept of bronzization Chapter 1: Written in blood? An exploration of the possibility of European Identity in the Bronze Age through examination of political habitus, origin myth, material culture, economics, mobility, aDNA, and linguistics ..
Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe From Inhumation to Cremation, 2023
This volume offers new insights into the radical shift in attitudes towards death and the dead bo... more This volume offers new insights into the radical shift in attitudes towards death and the dead body that occurred in temperate Bronze Age Europe. Exploring the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury apply a case-study approach to investigate how this transformation unfolded within local communities located throughout central to northern Europe. They demonstrate the deep link between the living and the dead body, and propose that the introduction of cremation was a significant ontological challenge to traditional ideas about death. In tracing the responses to this challenge, the authors focus on three fields of action: the treatment of the dead body, the construction of a burial place, and ongoing relationships with the dead body after burial. Interrogating cultural change at its most fundamental level, the authors elucidate the fundamental tension between openness towards the 'new' and the conservative pull of the familiar and traditional.
Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe: From Inhumation to Cremation, 2023
This volume offers new insights into the radical shift in attitudes towards death and the dead bo... more This volume offers new insights into the radical shift in attitudes towards death and the dead body that occurred in temperate Bronze Age Europe. Exploring the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation, Marie-Louise Stig Sørenson and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury apply a case-study approach to investigate how this transformation unfolded within local communities located throughout central to northern Europe. They demonstrate the deep link between the living and the dead body, and propose that the introduction of cremation was a significant ontological challenge to traditional ideas about death. In tracing the responses to this challenge, the authors focus on three fields of action: the treatment of the dead body, the construction of a burial place, and ongoing relationships with the dead body after burial. Interrogating cultural change at its most fundamental level, the authors elucidate the fundamental tension between openness towards the 'new' and the conservative pull of the familiar and traditional.
Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict From History to Heritage , 2019
Takes a completely original approach to studying memorials as complex and changeable cultural her... more Takes a completely original approach to studying memorials as complex and changeable cultural heritage sites Includes new studies of iconic sites (e.g. Dresden), lesser-known ones (e.g. the Isted Lion), and also considers sites that are being silenced (e.g. the Dudik Memorial Complex), and through that it expands the bases for comparative analysis and debates considerably and in a thoughtful manner Draws on in-depth case studies to provides both specific empirical evidence and analytic reflections that identify common trends and processes
Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leavin... more Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, from the construction of the materials themselves, through the production processes, to the design and effects deployed in finished objects. It explores how creativity is closely related to changes in material culture, how it directs responses to the new and unfamiliar, and how it has resulted in changes to familiar things and practices. Written by an international team of scholars, the case studies in this volume consider wider issues and provide detailed insights into creative solutions found in specific objects.
Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leavin... more Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, from the construction of the materials themselves, through the production processes , to the design and eff ects deployed in fi nished objects. It explores how creativity is closely related to changes in material culture, how it directs responses to the new and unfamiliar, and how it has resulted in changes to familiar things and practices. Written by an international team of scholars, the case studies in this volume consider wider issues and provide detailed insights into creative solutions found in specifi c objects.
Sørensen, M. L. S., and Rebay-Salisbury, K. (eds) 2012. Embodied Knowledge: Historical Perspectives on Belief and Technology. Oxford: Oxbow., Nov 2012
The body is the main forum for learning about how to do, think and believe and it is a starting p... more The body is the main forum for learning about how to do, think and believe and it is a starting point for the granting and forming of many forms of meaning. Fourteen papers explore the relationship between knowledge and the body through a series of historical and archaeological case studies. More specifically, it considers the concept of embodied knowledge by exploring some of the apparent diverse and yet shared forms of what may be called embodied knowledge. The papers share a focus on knowledge as it is implicit and expressed through the human body and bodily action, and as it formed through intentional practices. But what is this kind of knowledge? Using specific case studies of knowledgeable actions, the book explores embodied knowledge through a focus on practice. It does so through two different, yet interconnected aspects of how such knowledge expresses itself: belief and technology.
1. Embodied knowledge. Reflections on belief and technology: Introduction (Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury)
Part I
2. Introduction to Part I: belief as practice. (Marie Louise Stig Sørensen)
3. Inhumation and cremation: how burial practices are linked to beliefs (Katharina Rebay-Salisbury)
4. Delusion and disclosure: human disposal and the aesthetics of vagueness (Tim Flohr Sørensen)
5. Material culture, embodiment and the construction of religious knowledge (Mads Dengsø Jessen)
6. Sealed by the cross: protecting the body in Anglo-Saxon England (Helen Foxhall Forbes)
7. The role of healing in the Jesuit mission to China, 1582-1610 (Mary Laven)
8. Protest re-embodied: shifting technologies of moral suasion in India (Jacob Copeman)
Part II
9. Introduction to Part II: technology as practice. (Lise Bender Jørgensen)
10. The language of craftsmanship (Harald Bentz Høgseth)
11. Conceptual knowledge as technologically materialised: a case study of pottery production, consumption and community practice (Sheila Kohring)
12. Many hands make light work: potting and embodied knowledge at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary (Sofaer and Sandy Budden)
13. Spinning faith (Lise Bender Jørgensen)
14. The sound of fire, taste of copper, feel of bronze, and colours of the cast: sensory aspects of metalworking technology (Maikel Henricus Gerardus Kuijpers)
Rebay-Salisbury, K., Sørensen, M. L. S., and Hughes, J. (eds) 2010. Body Parts and Bodies Whole. Changing Relations and Meanings. Oxford: Oxbow., 2010
This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-fun... more This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods.
Archaeologists routinely encounter parts of human and animal bodies in their excavations. Such fragmentary evidence has often been created through accidental damage and the passage of time - nevertheless, it can also signify a deliberate and meaningful act of fragmentation. As a fragment, a part may acquire a distinct meaning through its enchained relationship to the whole or alternatively it may be used in a more straightforward manner to represent the whole or even act as stand-in for other variables.
This collection of papers puts bodily fragmentation into a long-term historical perspective. The temporal spread of the papers collected here indicates both the consistent importance and the varied perception of body parts in the archaeological record of Europe and the Near East. By bringing case studies together from a range of locations and time periods, each chapter brings a different insight to the role of body parts and body wholes and explores the status of the body in different cultural contexts.
Many of the papers deal directly with the physical remains of the dead body, but the range of practices and representations covered in this volume confirm the sheer variability of treatments of the body throughout human history. Every one of the contributions shows how looking at how the human body is divided into pieces or parts can give us deeper insights into the beliefs of the particular society which produced these practices and representations. 176p, 89 b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2010)
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The reconstruction of society after conflict is complex and multifaceted. This book investigates ... more The reconstruction of society after conflict is complex and multifaceted. This book investigates this theme as it relates to cultural heritage through a number of case studies relating to European wars since 1864. The case studies show in detail how buildings, landscapes, and monuments become important agents in post-conflict reconstruction, as well as how their meanings change and how they become sites of competition over historical narratives and claims. Looking at iconic and lesser-known sites, this book connects broad theoretical discussions of reconstruction and memorialisation to specific physical places, and in the process it traces shifts in their meanings over time. This book identifies common threads and investigates their wider implications. It explores the relationship between cultural heritage and international conflict, paying close attention to the long aftermaths of acts of destruction and reconstruction and making important contributions through the use of new empirical evidence and critical theory.
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This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the c... more Abstract as listed by Oxbow
This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods.
Archaeologists routinely encounter parts of human and animal bodies in their excavations. Such fragmentary evidence has often been created through accidental damage and the passage of time - nevertheless, it can also signify a deliberate and meaningful act of fragmentation. As a fragment, a part may acquire a distinct meaning through its enchained relationship to the whole or alternatively it may be used in a more straightforward manner to represent the whole or even act as stand-in for other variables.
This collection of papers puts bodily fragmentation into a long-term historical perspective. The temporal spread of the papers collected here indicates both the consistent importance and the varied perception of body parts in the archaeological record of Europe and the Near East. By bringing case studies together from a range of locations and time periods, each chapter brings a different insight to the role of body parts and body wholes and explores the status of the body in different cultural contexts.
Many of the papers deal directly with the physical remains of the dead body, but the range of practices and representations covered in this volume confirm the sheer variability of treatments of the body throughout human history. Every one of the contributions shows how looking at how the human body is divided into pieces or parts can give us deeper insights into the beliefs of the particular society which produced these practices and representations. 176p, 89 b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2010)
Papers by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 4, 2008
Gender archaeology has by now become a relatively well-established research topic within archaeol... more Gender archaeology has by now become a relatively well-established research topic within archaeology. Recent years have seen the publication of a number of edited volumes, a rapidly expanding number of papers, and even a few journals and newsletters dedicated to this subject. It is, therefore, very surprising that in this literature the historiographic analysis of women archaeologists has played only a minor part. Likewise they are hardly acknowledged in the ‘folk’ histories of the discipline (Lucy and Hill 1994: 2). The need to understand the disciplinary integration of women, to appreciate the varying socio-political contexts of their work, to reveal the unique tension between their roles as women and their academic lives, has become obvious and is strongly felt in many areas of the discipline. The insights yielded by such analysis will have significance at many levels and will be of paramount importance for the intellectual history of archaeology. In particular, such insights will necessitate a much-needed revision of disciplinary history by revealing its mechanisms of selecting and forgetting, and will play an important role in the analysis of archaeology’s knowledge claims. Histories of archaeology have broadly accepted, and spread, a perception of archaeology as being male-centred, both intellectually and in practice. These accounts, written by male archaeologists such as Glyn Daniel (1975), Alain Schnapp (1993), and Bruce Trigger (1989), are inevitably androcentric in their conceptualization and reconstruction of the disciplinary past. Their versions have, however, recently begun to be contested, as concern with critical historiography has grown, and a few explicit historiographical accounts of women archaeologists have appeared. So far, with regard to the role of women, the most extensive contributions are the edited volumes by Claassen (1994) and du Cros and Smith (1993). While providing an important beginning, these publications show that there is still a long way to go. In particular they demonstrate a gap in research coverage, as no investigation of the contribution of women outside the USA and Australia exists.
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2017
13 Excavating Women: Towards an Engendered History of Archaeology Margarita Dıaz-Andreu and Marie... more 13 Excavating Women: Towards an Engendered History of Archaeology Margarita Dıaz-Andreu and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen Dıaz-Andreu and Sørensen's introductory chapter from their 1998 edited volume, Excavating Women, is a crucial contribution to gender archaeology ...
Routledge eBooks, Sep 18, 2009
Part 1: Setting the Scene 1. Introduction: Making the means transparent: reasons and reflections,... more Part 1: Setting the Scene 1. Introduction: Making the means transparent: reasons and reflections, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and John Carman 2. Heritage Studies - an outline, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and John Carman 3. Public Archaeology in United States in the early twenty-first century, Barbara Little Part 2: Heritage Methodologies: Investigating Texts 4. The history of heritage: a method in analyzing legislative historiography, Hilary Soderland 5. Means maketh the end - the context for the development of methodologies to assessing the state of the historic environment in the UK, Ian Baxter 6. Methods used to investigate the use of the past in the formation of regional identities, Ulrike Sommer Part 3: Heritage Methodologies: Investigating People 7. Reflections on the practice of ethnography within heritage tourism, Catherine Palmer 8. Heritage Ethnography as a specialised craft: Grasping maritime heritage in Bermuda, Charlotte Andrews 9. Between the lines and in the margins: interviewing people about attitudes to heritage and identity, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen 10. Walking a fine line: obtaining sensitive information using a valid methodology, Morag Kersel 11. Methods for investigating locals' perceptions of a cultural heritage product for tourism: lessons from Botswana, Susan Keitumetse 12. The public archaeology of African America: reflections on pragmatic methods and their results, Carol McDavid Part 4: Heritage Methodologies: Investigating Things 13. The use of GIS in Landscape Heritage and Attitudes to Place- Digital Deep Maps, Matthew Fitzjohn 14. Making them draw: the use of drawings in research into public attitudes towards the past, Grete Lillehammer 15. The heritagescape: looking at heritage sites, Mary-Catherine Garden 16. The intangible presence: investigating battlefields, John Carman and Patricia Carman Part 5: Commentaries Commentary: the view from social anthropology Paola Filippucci. Commentary: the view from environmental psychology David Uzzell
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1. Embodied knowledge. Reflections on belief and technology: Introduction (Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury)
Part I
2. Introduction to Part I: belief as practice. (Marie Louise Stig Sørensen)
3. Inhumation and cremation: how burial practices are linked to beliefs (Katharina Rebay-Salisbury)
4. Delusion and disclosure: human disposal and the aesthetics of vagueness (Tim Flohr Sørensen)
5. Material culture, embodiment and the construction of religious knowledge (Mads Dengsø Jessen)
6. Sealed by the cross: protecting the body in Anglo-Saxon England (Helen Foxhall Forbes)
7. The role of healing in the Jesuit mission to China, 1582-1610 (Mary Laven)
8. Protest re-embodied: shifting technologies of moral suasion in India (Jacob Copeman)
Part II
9. Introduction to Part II: technology as practice. (Lise Bender Jørgensen)
10. The language of craftsmanship (Harald Bentz Høgseth)
11. Conceptual knowledge as technologically materialised: a case study of pottery production, consumption and community practice (Sheila Kohring)
12. Many hands make light work: potting and embodied knowledge at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary (Sofaer and Sandy Budden)
13. Spinning faith (Lise Bender Jørgensen)
14. The sound of fire, taste of copper, feel of bronze, and colours of the cast: sensory aspects of metalworking technology (Maikel Henricus Gerardus Kuijpers)
Archaeologists routinely encounter parts of human and animal bodies in their excavations. Such fragmentary evidence has often been created through accidental damage and the passage of time - nevertheless, it can also signify a deliberate and meaningful act of fragmentation. As a fragment, a part may acquire a distinct meaning through its enchained relationship to the whole or alternatively it may be used in a more straightforward manner to represent the whole or even act as stand-in for other variables.
This collection of papers puts bodily fragmentation into a long-term historical perspective. The temporal spread of the papers collected here indicates both the consistent importance and the varied perception of body parts in the archaeological record of Europe and the Near East. By bringing case studies together from a range of locations and time periods, each chapter brings a different insight to the role of body parts and body wholes and explores the status of the body in different cultural contexts.
Many of the papers deal directly with the physical remains of the dead body, but the range of practices and representations covered in this volume confirm the sheer variability of treatments of the body throughout human history. Every one of the contributions shows how looking at how the human body is divided into pieces or parts can give us deeper insights into the beliefs of the particular society which produced these practices and representations. 176p, 89 b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2010)
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This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods.
Archaeologists routinely encounter parts of human and animal bodies in their excavations. Such fragmentary evidence has often been created through accidental damage and the passage of time - nevertheless, it can also signify a deliberate and meaningful act of fragmentation. As a fragment, a part may acquire a distinct meaning through its enchained relationship to the whole or alternatively it may be used in a more straightforward manner to represent the whole or even act as stand-in for other variables.
This collection of papers puts bodily fragmentation into a long-term historical perspective. The temporal spread of the papers collected here indicates both the consistent importance and the varied perception of body parts in the archaeological record of Europe and the Near East. By bringing case studies together from a range of locations and time periods, each chapter brings a different insight to the role of body parts and body wholes and explores the status of the body in different cultural contexts.
Many of the papers deal directly with the physical remains of the dead body, but the range of practices and representations covered in this volume confirm the sheer variability of treatments of the body throughout human history. Every one of the contributions shows how looking at how the human body is divided into pieces or parts can give us deeper insights into the beliefs of the particular society which produced these practices and representations. 176p, 89 b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2010)
Papers by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
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1. Embodied knowledge. Reflections on belief and technology: Introduction (Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury)
Part I
2. Introduction to Part I: belief as practice. (Marie Louise Stig Sørensen)
3. Inhumation and cremation: how burial practices are linked to beliefs (Katharina Rebay-Salisbury)
4. Delusion and disclosure: human disposal and the aesthetics of vagueness (Tim Flohr Sørensen)
5. Material culture, embodiment and the construction of religious knowledge (Mads Dengsø Jessen)
6. Sealed by the cross: protecting the body in Anglo-Saxon England (Helen Foxhall Forbes)
7. The role of healing in the Jesuit mission to China, 1582-1610 (Mary Laven)
8. Protest re-embodied: shifting technologies of moral suasion in India (Jacob Copeman)
Part II
9. Introduction to Part II: technology as practice. (Lise Bender Jørgensen)
10. The language of craftsmanship (Harald Bentz Høgseth)
11. Conceptual knowledge as technologically materialised: a case study of pottery production, consumption and community practice (Sheila Kohring)
12. Many hands make light work: potting and embodied knowledge at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary (Sofaer and Sandy Budden)
13. Spinning faith (Lise Bender Jørgensen)
14. The sound of fire, taste of copper, feel of bronze, and colours of the cast: sensory aspects of metalworking technology (Maikel Henricus Gerardus Kuijpers)
Archaeologists routinely encounter parts of human and animal bodies in their excavations. Such fragmentary evidence has often been created through accidental damage and the passage of time - nevertheless, it can also signify a deliberate and meaningful act of fragmentation. As a fragment, a part may acquire a distinct meaning through its enchained relationship to the whole or alternatively it may be used in a more straightforward manner to represent the whole or even act as stand-in for other variables.
This collection of papers puts bodily fragmentation into a long-term historical perspective. The temporal spread of the papers collected here indicates both the consistent importance and the varied perception of body parts in the archaeological record of Europe and the Near East. By bringing case studies together from a range of locations and time periods, each chapter brings a different insight to the role of body parts and body wholes and explores the status of the body in different cultural contexts.
Many of the papers deal directly with the physical remains of the dead body, but the range of practices and representations covered in this volume confirm the sheer variability of treatments of the body throughout human history. Every one of the contributions shows how looking at how the human body is divided into pieces or parts can give us deeper insights into the beliefs of the particular society which produced these practices and representations. 176p, 89 b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2010)
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This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods.
Archaeologists routinely encounter parts of human and animal bodies in their excavations. Such fragmentary evidence has often been created through accidental damage and the passage of time - nevertheless, it can also signify a deliberate and meaningful act of fragmentation. As a fragment, a part may acquire a distinct meaning through its enchained relationship to the whole or alternatively it may be used in a more straightforward manner to represent the whole or even act as stand-in for other variables.
This collection of papers puts bodily fragmentation into a long-term historical perspective. The temporal spread of the papers collected here indicates both the consistent importance and the varied perception of body parts in the archaeological record of Europe and the Near East. By bringing case studies together from a range of locations and time periods, each chapter brings a different insight to the role of body parts and body wholes and explores the status of the body in different cultural contexts.
Many of the papers deal directly with the physical remains of the dead body, but the range of practices and representations covered in this volume confirm the sheer variability of treatments of the body throughout human history. Every one of the contributions shows how looking at how the human body is divided into pieces or parts can give us deeper insights into the beliefs of the particular society which produced these practices and representations. 176p, 89 b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2010)
due to isotope analyses, aDNA, and the development of
more refined osteological methods, the Bronze Age person
has become more knowable. However, are we in danger of
developing interpretative and descriptive languages which
essentialise or typify these lives? We express surprisingly
little concern about how the social institutions, conventions,
and regulations that underlie the new interpretations, which
we offer, would have affected peoples’ lives. This is largely
because we cannot answer such questions, but is that good
enough? In this contribution, I want to pursue the thought
that just because a question cannot be answered does not mean
that it should not be asked. I shall argue that questioning and
wonder play a profound epistemological role in knowledge
production, especially when the latter concerns itself with
insights rather than simply results. The genesis of questions
matters. The musing and introspection about what we know
and what we cannot know and why that is the case are not
only constitutive parts of the path to insight but should be
highlighted as significant in their own right. To foreground
this shadowland, I will reflect on how we can respond to the
question of whether the Egtved girl (and others like her) was
homesick, and how the foster child who moved away from
‘home’ at age five may have been affected by this experience.
control over their lives, such as control of the body’s reproductive capacity. In terms of the wider project of understanding gender, investigating how gender relations were impacted as well as a partner to these important social and political transformations is a complex task — but also one of significance in terms of providing fuller insight into what we mean when we state that gender is a ‘social construct’.
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