Borderlands as spaces: Creating third spaces and fractured landscapes in medieval Northern Finland
Cultural anthropologists and historians have successfully adopted a borderlands perspective to investigate interaction, power, and identity between emerging or expanding state societies. This article develops an archaeological approach to such interstitial landscapes. It conceptualizes borderlands a...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/1469605313519316 2023-05-15T17:42:14+02:00 Borderlands as spaces: Creating third spaces and fractured landscapes in medieval Northern Finland Ylimaunu, Timo Lakomäki, Sami Kallio-Seppä, Titta Mullins, Paul R Nurmi, Risto Kuorilehto, Markku 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1469605313519316 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1469605313519316 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1469605313519316 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Social Archaeology volume 14, issue 2, page 244-267 ISSN 1469-6053 1741-2951 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Archeology journal-article 2014 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605313519316 2022-07-03T16:10:08Z Cultural anthropologists and historians have successfully adopted a borderlands perspective to investigate interaction, power, and identity between emerging or expanding state societies. This article develops an archaeological approach to such interstitial landscapes. It conceptualizes borderlands as spaces where people engage the material world under very specific geopolitical circumstances and create very specific materialities and subjectivities in the process. Political, social, and ideological dynamics between state societies produce two kinds of cultural spaces: hybrid “third spaces” and “fractured landscapes.” Although seemingly contradictory, these often emerge side by side in the same physical space. We illustrate this process by exploring the expansion of the Catholic Church and the Swedish kingdom to the Northern Ostrobothnian coast in northern Finland during the Middle Ages (ca. 1300–1600). During this era, church buildings and cemeteries became sites where locals, ecclesial officials, and state agents negotiated their relations through complex material and spatial practices. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Journal of Social Archaeology 14 2 244 267 |
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Cultural anthropologists and historians have successfully adopted a borderlands perspective to investigate interaction, power, and identity between emerging or expanding state societies. This article develops an archaeological approach to such interstitial landscapes. It conceptualizes borderlands as spaces where people engage the material world under very specific geopolitical circumstances and create very specific materialities and subjectivities in the process. Political, social, and ideological dynamics between state societies produce two kinds of cultural spaces: hybrid “third spaces” and “fractured landscapes.” Although seemingly contradictory, these often emerge side by side in the same physical space. We illustrate this process by exploring the expansion of the Catholic Church and the Swedish kingdom to the Northern Ostrobothnian coast in northern Finland during the Middle Ages (ca. 1300–1600). During this era, church buildings and cemeteries became sites where locals, ecclesial officials, and state agents negotiated their relations through complex material and spatial practices. |
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Ylimaunu, Timo Lakomäki, Sami Kallio-Seppä, Titta Mullins, Paul R Nurmi, Risto Kuorilehto, Markku |
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Borderlands as spaces: Creating third spaces and fractured landscapes in medieval Northern Finland |
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Borderlands as spaces: Creating third spaces and fractured landscapes in medieval Northern Finland |
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Borderlands as spaces: Creating third spaces and fractured landscapes in medieval Northern Finland |
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